Tag Archive for 'research'
Somewhere along the line we’re going to have to start differentiating exactly what we mean by “multi-touch”. In Apple’s world it’s the skin-sensitive capacitive touchscreen on the iPhone, which can respond to multiple fingers prodding and stroking at it at once. In Lenovo’s world (and that of other Tablet PC manufacturers) it means a touchscreen [...]
Market research can be tricky - I know I’ve lied to someone surveying me, so I always try to take results with a generous pinch (or shovel) of salt. I’d tentatively say that, going by The EQUS Group’s findings, the well-recognised brand name of Google or Yahoo! would be a good place to launch a [...]
For some reason I can’t look at MIT’s Leonardo robot without an involuntary shudder - I think it’s the lifelike fur and the evil, calculating eyes. Even scarier is to see it in motion (and there are videos after the cut), when complex facial mapping techniques have taken human expressions and reworked them for the robot’s [...]
I don’t know about you, but holding a slab of red-hot metal to my ear is not my idea of fun (unless I’m taking part in a Spanish Inquisition reconstruction, in which case it’s no-holds-barred, baby); as cellphones advance in processing power, however, the amount of heat pumped out as a byproduct is growing along [...]
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 [...]
