The Lite-On Awards 7th annual ceremony was held earlier this month, under the theme “Foreseeing the Future”. This large-scale industrial design competition, hosted by the Taiwanese “Lite-On” company, awards inventions in various industries, which put new technologies into use in ...

A new nanowires and nanorodes production method, introduced by Sun and Hou, both chemists from Brown University, may become a key factor in next generation high storage magnetic devices. Transmission electron microscope images of nanorods in different sizes (Credit: Brown ...

An open-source engineering project is currently under development in Canada. The project aims to create a new power plant design that will use a combination of solar and geothermal energy for use in more distant locations without polluting the environment. ...

Taking place for more than 20 years, the largest technology exhibition in the world might not have been as exciting as in previous years but still presented several interesting innovations. From GPS cameras to solar handbags, this article will cover ...

A team of students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa is working on a new solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which they hope will soon break a 17 year old world aviation record. Although solar aviation is ...

Projector technology has improved considerably in the last few years, but although brightness, contrast, and color are better than ever, size still remains an issue for those looking for a truly portable device. Enter the world’s smallest and lightest projector ...

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 ...