The stylus may have been left behind in the age of multi-touch, but Microsoft researchers think they’ve got a way to give it new life.
Microsoft Research has posted images and video (via Engadget) of a stylus that changes functions based on how you hold it. For example, a typical pen grip allows for handwriting, but holding the stylus …
Social media may have been credited with driving a lot of the uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East recently, and now it may be the best way to keep track of what’s happening in each of them. Al Jazeera has launched a Twitter dashboard that tallies daily the number of tweets about political developments in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and …
Holding your arm out straight in place for long periods of time could be a strenuous task that many of us can’t undertake without feeling a considerable amount of pain.
But for surgeons, tattoo artists and jewelers whose occupations require them to hold their limbs in weird positions, it’s part of the job. An exoskeletal arm, however, …
This isn’t eerie at all: Geminoid DK, in conjunction with Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark, has created a robotic version of the associate professor that looks identical to him. If it weren’t enough that the robot looked exactly like Scharfe, it also mimics the professor’s shrugs and facial expressions.
The …
Here’s something for all of our paranoid readers out there: The Department of Homeland Security may have signed contracts to develop systems that will be able to provide detailed body scans without the subject even being aware of it.
Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center under a Freedom of Information Act …
Yes, you read the headline right–baby robots are being used to treat depressed seniors with Alzheimer’s in Japan. As strange as it might sound, some studies have shown that caring for dolls is therapeutic to depressed Alzheimer’s patients.
The babyloid, which is still a prototype, looks a bit like the strange lovechild of a robot and …
Although Steve Jobs may not become Sir Steve any time soon, he’s still our tech-y knight in shining armor.
The Telegraph reports that plans to knight Steve Jobs for his contributions to business and technology in 2009 were scrapped by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who held a grudge ever since Jobs declined an invitation to speak …
If you really want to know what drives your NFL prospect internally, you’ll need to get your hands on an E39 Compression Shirt.
Weighing 4.5 ounces, the Under Armour-brand tech-heavy biometric shirt can measure heart and breathing rates, skin-surface temperature and the wearer’s force and direction.
“The guys who are training …
In this kind of job market, it’s important to impress potential employers with whatever skills you have that set yourself apart from the rest of the pack. Like, for example, your ability to deep-dive into code on WordPress sites.
Over at the Slowcop blog, they’ve discovered an unusual “Help Wanted” message hidden online:
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The most interesting thing about Motorola’s new Xoom tablet–which I reviewed for this week’s TIME.com Technologizer column and is available from Verizon dealers starting today–is that it’s the first tablet that runs Google’s new Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. The second most interesting is the support for Verizon’s speedy LTE …
It’s like the Justice League of Technology: Google, Sony, TiVo, Mitsubishi, Best Buy and two lesser-known companies (NagraVision and SageTV – Think of them as the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman of the team) have joined together to support the Federal Communication Commission’s AllVid proposal, calling themselves the AllVid Tech Company …
Once an expensive minority, toy makers are adopting newer technologies every year – it seems like almost everything needs a battery or power source now. This year’s Toy Fair was no different. Combing the aisles, I found the ten toys with new or interesting technology that’ll make your kid say “gimme.”
