The Nokia Eco Sensor Concept is a ‘green’ mobile phone, designed to enhance our awareness both of the environment and of ourselves. The phone comes with a wearable sensor unit powered by alternative energy sources, which monitors our health, our ...

A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will ...

Joao Diego Schimansky, a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil, is one of eight finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 2007 annual global competition. Schimansky designed a concept called “Fog Shower”, a showerhead that consumes much less ...

“Pebble” is a solar food heater concept created by Laura Pandelle, a French design student, who is one of the finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 07 Competition. The Pebble is designed to operate by using spray-on solar cells, a ...

“D-Wave Systems” and Dr. Hartmut Neven – a scientist from Google, will demonstrate an image recognition algorithm running on a quantum computer, at the “Super Computing 2007” (SC07) Conference. The conference will take place in Nevada this week. The device, ...

A team of researchers under the direction of Michael Bove, Head of the Consumer Electronics Lab at MIT, have developed a 3D holographic video system, which they say could bring 3D video displays to consumer and medical markets in the ...

NEC in collaboration with SGI have developed KOTOHANA – flower-shaped terminals equipped with LEDs, that much like mood-rings recognize emotions and use color to convey them. However, unlike mood-rings, KOTOHANA recognizes your emotions by analyzing speech patterns. A message regarding ...

Microsoft’s RoundTable is a unique high-end video conferencing system. The RoundTable features a 360-degrees, panoramic view of the conference participants using five built-in cameras, allowing users from around the room to communicate verbally and none-verbally. Mobile, easy to use, and ...

Intel’s Photonic Lab has announced the successful development of the 3rd and last component in a high speed optical trinity – the Silicon-Germanium optical detector. Several months ago, Intel announced it had managed to combine a laser and an optical ...

A team of scientists from the Material Research Institute (MRI) at Pennsylvania State University have developed a device that efficiently makes laser-to-fiber and fiber-to-fiber connections within optical fiber packages. Their invention, which offers a new economically viable method for aligning ...