A battle between the giant humanoid robots of America and Japan is in the works, as MegaBot USA’s challenge to Japan’s Kuratas Mecha has been formally accepted. Kuratas, the…
Imagine an Apple iPhone that smells like an apple or a Blackberry that taste sweet or a Windows Touch-phone that squeezes you in mid-conversation. Scientists in London have…
Microsoft Devices Group and communications and information technology company Nokia are launching a $29 cell phone that will last one month on a single charge. “With our ultra-affordable…
Las Vegas is buzzing. After a week of tech advances at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show, CES2015, drones have taken the lead in seducing not only an…
Digital archaeology that has revealed the earliest signs of web-life in America. Stanford Libraries has brought to light the first websites ever uploaded in the US-genealogically part Euro-descendant, part…
Japan’s aging population will be cared for by robots-not immigrant laborers, according to the plans of the Japanese government. The Abe government is increasing investments in healthcare robots…
On Nov. 7, the White House’s science and technology branch will meet with robotics experts and medical and humanitarian officials to explore ways to use robots to help…
A bubble gum company in Japan-a nation conscious of the relationship between chewing and cognitive function-has invented a chewing-sensor. The sensor, invented by a Tokyo-based gum manufacturer, counts…
The new chip developed by IBM has 4096 cores, 1 million programmable neurons, and 5.4 billion transistors, heralding what some are calling a new era in computing. The chip,…
The Greenbird Wind Wing was designed and built under two San Francisco-based entrepreneurs, and has been proposed as a means of cutting down on the over $1 million…
The world’s most advanced commercial high-resolution satellite is now operational. DigitalView’s WorldView-3-the company’s sixth super-spectral, hi-res satellite-was launched this week, and offers photo resolution at five times the…
With a wood frame, some plastic and water, 99 percent of bacteria can be eliminated from unclean water, using a structure created by University of Buffalo, New York…