The fabless semiconductor company Artimi developed a wireless USB (WUSB) technology for cameras which it claims is going to reach the market within a year and become a standard of the industry within the next 2-3 years. WUSB technology will ...

Hitachi unveiled the world’s largest consumer hard drive with a gigantic capacity of one Terabyte (1 TB), enough to hold 222 DVDs with room to spare. The 1 TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 is 33% larger then the previous line of ...

In 2006, we covered numerous innovative technologies ranging from true 3D displays to robotic flying insects. We covered success stories, such as the Israeli ramjet rocket built by students and embarrassing moments such as Honda’s ASIMO robot’s fall in a ...

livePic is an interactive technology aimed at expanding the user’s drawing experience. Developed by Makoto Katsura and Masa Inakage at the Inakage Lab at Keio University in Japan, LivePic enables users to “move” and “control” the pictures they draw. A ...

One of the more interesting developments of 2006 is multi-touch interaction display technology. This multi-point, multi-user display technology was developed by Jefferson Y. Han and his team at the New York University (NYU) Media Research Lab. From typing on an ...

Floating in midair, an image hovers above a seemingly ordinary table. This unique technology, developed by a former architect, creates one of the most convincing open-air holographic-like images in existence. This article will cover the technology and its future applications. ...

U.K.-based SplashPower is currently developing a technology for wireless recharging of devices by electromagnetic induction. SplashPower’s wireless rechargers comprise two sorts of ‘SplashPads’ – an electromagnetic induction pad that recharges a single device atop it, such as a digital camera, ...

The Uber-Graph will be produced as a limited edition glass HDTV screen by the UberCoolHome Company. Though marketed as a Holographic display, it’s actually a glass rear projection screen that hangs in the middle of a room giving the illusion ...

The Aquatanker, by Australian company Solarsailor, is a concept “green” supertanker designed to transport large volumes of potable (i.e., drinkable) water. The 400 m by 31 m vessel will sail at 15 knots (about 28 km/h) using a solar wing ...

For several years, Fujitsu has been developing a new type of biometric technology expected to be more secure, reliable, and perceived as less intrusive than current biometric systems, which protect against bank card thefts, fraudulent financial transactions, and unauthorized entries. ...