Tag Archive for 'research'
I’ve always been impressed with Microsoft’s research department; while the rest of the company seems to be ruled by the iron fist of “market forces”, the engineers and developers in the test labs are gleefully mucking about with software and hardware that stretches the interaction of computer technology with our lives to new lengths. I’d [...]
When did you last wash your hands? Funnily enough, at some point in the future you might just have rinsed away your family photos. Researchers in Japan have figured out a way to slot specially-constructed DNA into the genome DNA of a bacterium; while each individual cell is relatively short-lived, the genome is passed down [...]
Back when I was having swimming lessons at school, one of the tasks we had to complete in order to get a certificate was collecting a rubber brick from the deep-end of the pool. I’m not sure exactly what this was designed to prepare us for - working for a miserly and slippery-fingered brick layer [...]
Scoble has taken time out from his busy angst-baiting (only joking, Robert!) to blog about LIFT and some of the cool research and tech being shown there. So far getting his “best worth the entrance fee” award has been Sugata Mitra’s five-year Hole In The Wall Experiment, examining the success of Minimally Invasive Education in [...]
While this photo might look like a fashion-conscious robot turning its back on the odd headwear of its doting creator, in fact there’s something far more insidious going on. The capped student is in fact using mind control to instruct his mechanical charge, making him perform menial tasks and generally demeaning him.
Right now, thanks to [...]
A new devcice called ROEM (short for Reading on The Move), allows users to roll up paper easily, and be able to read the papers normally afterwords. The type of paper is noted as “electronic paper”, something we have never seen before. Ofcourse, this is all a design concept and was created by one Ben [...]
Say what you like about Microsoft - and love ‘em or hate ‘em, people invariably do speak their mind - they’ve got some talented people working for them. Their research departments are packed to the gills with boffins developing the wave-after-next of interfaces, GUIs and more, and occasionally we get to see the results. Here, [...]
To me, “augmented reality” always sounds like the advertising gumph of some sort of hideous latex sex-aid, possibly with a USB plug because everything else seems to have one of the damn things these days. However Nokia Research would like us to consider it in slightly less X-rated terms - superimposing data onto an image [...]
If ever there was proof that you can consume all the hype you want but that it doesn’t mean a thing in the long run, this is it. Reuters reports on a study by Nielsen Media Research that examined just how much time owners of iPods and iTunes users spent actually consuming those moving-pictures on their [...]
Okay, so this isn’t something you would probably be looking to buy for home, unless your home is the size of a bloody great warehouse and you want a massive orange donut in the middle of it, but it’s exciting all the same. You’re looking at the newly assembled CMS particle detector at the CERN [...]
