We are not talking about Gucci or Prada, but about the 4th Design for Chunks contest which has […]
Researchers from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) have developed the Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry system consisting of […]
The global sales of Japanese animation and character goods reach 9 trillion yen ($80 billion), 10 times what […]
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Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena will present Urballoon at Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day […]
A team of European scientists are studying locusts to develop a crash-avoidance technology that would prevent hundreds of […]
The UK government is considering to tag trash. A “clean neighbourhoods” bill should to be introduced this autumn […]
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MyPostie, a touchscreen kiosk allowing older people to communicate electronically, is being tested at a retirement village in […]
MOPORT.org, a free service for generating and sharing mobile phone reports, is launched this month, in time to […]
The Dialogue Channel is setting up a worldwide petition to activate the Internet country code for Iraq. The […]
Wessel Westerveld, student at the Academy of Art AKI in Enschede (NL), designed what he calls “the weapon […]
Oregon State University’s scientists have cooked up an edible film that protects foods from spoiling. The anti-microbial food […]
art@radio is preparing “jamming radiophonic space,” an international event which modulates the interplay of radio, Internet, wireless transmission, […]
Calif.-based start-up Canesta has created a developer kit –which includes a single-chip 3-D “camera”, a USB interface, and […]
Employees blogs gives readers a peek inside their daily world: their addiction to TV shows, favourite jokes, etc. […]
Regulations published by Athens 2004 last week dictate that spectators may be refused admission to events if they […]
Pachinko is a Japanese game where a player purchases balls and feeds them into a machine. The balls […]
Auto insurers in the United States and Britain are experimenting with programs that put monitoring devices in customers’ […]
Hoping to take advantage of having an Olympic athlete in its ranks, the University of Western Ontario (Canada) […]
In 1980, the American Helicopter Society offered US$20,000 for the first group to build a human powered helicopter. […]
Last summer, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, two Czech film students, persuaded advertising and public-relations agencies, graphic designers, […]
Paul Timmins, a Michigan men of 23, pleaded guilty of unauthorized access to a protected computer. Together with […]
It’s totally totally off-topic, but I couldn’t resist! Now computer addicts can cook tiny cakes thanks to the […]
Reporters Without Borders denounces the Iraqi interim government’s order to the pan-Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera to close […]
Spanish Fundación Chabrera has decided to rely on free softwares in order to boost its program of computer […]
Yahoo!’s Picture What Matters photoblog is giving people across the USA a chance to share photos of what […]
Pew Internet & American Life Project has performed a phone survey (pdf) which shows that up to a […]
Electro, the Mansfield Westinghouse robot who was a sensation at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, […]
Maps have a particularly strong relationship to cities, which are themselves expressions of the human imagination. “Urban Legends: […]
The US federal depository libraries have to destroy five publications that the Department of Justice has deemed not […]
The City of Munich, which was to be the first European city to adopt Linux in all its […]
London is having a try at speed flatmating. Borrowing the lonelyhearts technique of hiring a venue and giving […]
Anesthesiologists working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, are routinely responsible for four operating rooms at once. Unable to […]
The Boardbug Baby and Child Monitor set enables parents to keep tabs on their child at all times. […]
SmallPlanet, a Los Angeles-based startup, created three location-based applications for mobile devices they are planning on rolling out […]
Mobile phone software makers would enrich Web logs by tapping into geotracking features in handsets. But wireless carriers […]
The U.K. Passport Service said Friday it will forbid open-mouthed smiles on passport pictures, one of several rules […]
The new version of Paranoia, the classic role-playing game in which players battle a mad, totalitarian computer for […]
The SciArt Project started in 2003 and its philosophy is “Dreaming of a future in which scientists and […]
Cabot Superior MicroPowders (CSMP), is developping printable electronics, such as antennas and transistors, made of conductive inks and […]
This Saturday, the Aquafan of Riccione (near Bologna, in Italy) will host lessons of toothing organized by Sony […]