Sony creates own holodeck with PlayStation tech
Three-part video spots combine projection mapping, props, live actors, sea monsters, and more to hint at potential of immersive augmented reality.
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Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Chris Jablonski selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.
Chris Jablonski
Christopher Jablonski is a freelance technology writer.
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First inkjet-printed carbon nanotube circuit
The advantages of printed electronics and semiconducting carbon nanotubes have been combined for display electronics for the first time.
Soft robot uses air to move
Chemists at Harvard University have created a biologically inspired robot out of elastic polymers that can crawl across surfaces and under obstacles.
Mixberry Media to fill dead space in streaming radio with ads
New platform aims to insert ads into the idle time in audio streams whenever a user switches channels or changes songs.
Great Debate: Reflections on a paperless society
This week, I participated in our Great Debate series with fellow colleague Chris Dawson about society going paperless. We reached a consensus that paper reduction is not only possible, but should be actively pursued.
Successful test for electronic contact lens
Researchers have created a single-pixel contact lens which was tested on a live rabbit and showed no adverse effect. Hands-free information updates streamed directly across your field of vision may not be far off.
MIT creates analogue 'brain' chip
Researchers have designed a new computer chip that mimics synaptic plasticity--how a brain's neurons adapt in response to new information.
Kno: Software is eating education
In this interview, Kno Co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid explains where his eTextbook software is today, where it is headed, and how technology and the private sector will reform education.
Apple Siri, Google Voice could help save the world's languages
80% of all web communication is in ten languages, yet 95% of humanity speaks roughly 300 languages. As digital services and devices move to voice control, the commercial opportunity could help close the digital linguistic divide, says the Long Now Foundation.
frog creative chief: think outside the computer box
frog's Mark Rolston presents a vision for omnipresent computing and what it will take to build it.