Nokia, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, recently unveiled the Morph concept at The Museum of Modern Art in New-York. The Morph is featured in the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May ...
Momenta, a concept neck worn PC, is one of the entries in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition. This innovative necklace is designed to capture one’s most memorable moments by using bio-feedback triggers. When you get emotional, your heart rate increases ...
Mr. Du Tran Nguyen, from the Monash University in Australia, is one of the students competing at this year’s Australian Design Awards contest. His concept of an innovative sports glove, called Vie, is designed to take human performance to the ...
The Taiwanese company “E-lead” chose to reveal its newly developed “Noahpad UMPC” at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las-Vegas. The Noahpad is a miniature laptop computer with a unique interface designed to allow users to “unchain themselves” from ...
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis as the recipients of the 2007 Turing Award. The award, named after the British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is considered to be the ...
A team of researchers at the University of St. Andrews, in the U.K., has developed one of the smallest optical switches ever made. This switch, measuring about one tenth the size of a human hair, may eventually be used in ...
A group of researchers at Clemson University recently developed a new process and equipment that is expected to significantly reduce the amount of heat generated by silicon chips used for speeding processors. As microprocessors tend to generate more heat at ...
The U.S. Company Roper Mobile Technology recently introduced its flagship product – the most powerful version of the SwitchBack PC. The SwitchBack is a Windows XP-based PC that meets strict military specifications as it is capable of operating in extreme ...
SanDisk recently unveiled the flash based Vaulter Disk – a device that enables faster launching and loading of software on laptops and on personal computers. SanDisk envisions the Vaulter as a unique data storage solution, a compromise between the full ...
Humans are better than machines. However, the advantages of humans over machines have been in steady retreat – we gave up on physical strength first, then on some mental capacities such as computation, and now we’re in the process of ...