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In-Flight Text Messaging Is Coming
Gogo is rolling out a new app that will allow passengers to exchange text messages with groundlings while they’re tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Wi-Fi Powered Phones Could Make Chargers Obsolete
Engineering students have designed a device capable of picking up wi-fi signals and converting them to usable electrical current. Who needs a power cable when power-filled waves are all around you?
7 Computer Animations that Cross Over into Real Life
A virtual 10-year-old girl caught 1,000 pedophiles — what else can CGI do for us?
Motorola’s ‘Project Ara’ DIY Smartphone Sounds a Lot Like Phonebloks, Because It Is
Imagine a smartphone you cobble together like a LEGO toy.
Anki Drive Review: Slot-Car Racing for the Robotics Age
A startup’s first toy is terrific fun and a technological tour de force — as long as you can live with the high price and skimpy battery life.
Honda Shows Off Cars That Valet Park Themselves
It’s 2013 and we’re still parking our own cars. There’s GOT to be a better way!
Elon Musk Buys an Old Bond Mobile
Billionaire wants to turn it into a real-life submersible vehicle.
Remember Those Crazy Toy Cars at WWDC? They’re Called Anki Drive and They Go On Sale October 23
Anki’s eclectic experiment, dubbed Anki Drive, resembles a slot cars game — one that happens to conceal advanced robotics wizardry.
AOL Co-founder Steve Case on the Decentralization of Innovation
How Detroit was Silicon Valley in the ’50s and why the centers of innovation are about to become a lot less centralized.
MIT Develops ‘SkyCall’ Drone to Guide People Around Campus
Look out, tour guides. The robots are coming for your jobs.
Disney Just Figured Out Virtual Textures, Letting You ‘Feel’ Bumps and Ridges on a Touchscreen
“Touch the wheel. How does it feel?”