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Robotics, which has played a longstanding role in industrial applications, has finally entered the classroom in the form of applications for disabled students. It's a trend that could move beyond special needs and into the education mainstream. Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of...
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has explained how the batteries of portable electronic devices could be wirelessly -- and safely -- recharged. Such a technological feat could be accomplished by matching the source and receiver in frequency, similar to radio, MIT Assistant Professo...
Cutting-edge voice, speech and translation technology from IBM is getting a critical test from U.S. military personnel who are using the system to speak with Iraqi locals in their own language. The Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator, or "MASTOR," is activated by speaking and translat...
This week, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced that his mouse brain-mapping project has finally been completed. This major undertaking arrives in tandem with other advances in medical technologies that will soon force political leaders to face difficult policy questions. Mapping a mouse's bra...
Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara, on Monday said they have built the world's first electrically powered hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. This development addresses what Intel sees as one of the last major barriers to producing...
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has produced a real-life bionic woman. The RIC introduced Claudia Mitchell on Thursday, the first woman to be successfully fit with its original Bionic Arm technology. Three men were previously fitted with the bionic arm that weighs about six pounds and costs ...
Samsung on Monday unveiled a prototype for what could one day become a less expensive substitute for flash memory and at the same time touted a healthy flash memory market with high demand and prices to match. The South Korea firm's new technology -- phase-change random access memory -- could eventu...
IBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance -- 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second -- for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine and AMD Opteron processors. The new supercomputer, dubbed "Roadrunner," will...
Sony Electronics said it would soon launch three products that let consumers access their home entertainment libraries from anywhere, offering direct competition to the Slingbox and other remote TV technologies. The product suite, billed by Sony as "LocationFree Living," is aimed at frequent travele...
Samsung said it plans to demonstrate wireless connectivity that is 50 times faster than current WiMax technology at its fourth annual 4G summit in South Korea this week. The firm claims that it has achieved mobile data speed of 100 megabits per second and fixed-point speed of 1 gigabit per second wi...
An industry consortium that includes IBM, Chartered Semiconductor, Infineon and Samsung said this week they plan to make available the first silicon-functional circuits and design kits for 45-nanometer low-power process chip technology. The 45nm manufacturing process shrinks the gap between transist...
In the wake of a foiled terrorism plot targeting aircraft departing from Great Britain, European researchers are pushing hard to create a non-hijackable plane. The security program could combat on-board threats by 2008. The non-hijackable plane would feature technology designed to serve as a last ba...
Robotic surgery is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to change the way we think about healthcare for so-called "remote" communities, from the ocean depths to outer space. This developing medical technology field employs robots to hold the instruments while a surgeon operates a console t...
For many people in the biofuels movement, it is inspiring to witness and play even a small part in the huge amount of grass roots-driven, Web-based activity the energy issue is presently generating in the U.S. All this concern and activity raises a crucial question: To what degree is all this activi...
One small step for an inflatable satellite, one giant leap for commercial space travel took place this week as Genesis 1 launched from Russia and began orbiting the Earth. The experimental craft, developed and paid for by Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, may represent the biggest achievement by a pri...
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