Tobii Rex Lets You Control Windows 8 With Your Eyes
As far as novel input peripherals go, Tobii’s gaze-tracking addition to the keyboard and mouse standard is a fairly interesting one. And now, it can control Microsoft’s latest OS.
'Sound Bottle' Captures And Remixes The Soundtrack Of Your Life
Re: Sound Bottle is rather unlike any audio recording device you've ever seen before. It's a device that captures and plays back noises, operated by the simple act of lifting the cork and opening the bottle.
Star N8000 Note Review
We may not always notice this, but more and more new phone releases just don’t hit the west at all; least of which the technological backwater UK. A myriad of reasons are enough to keep them from our shores, but it nevertheless got us thinking: what are we missing?
DARPA's Headless, Four-Legged 'LS3' Robot Now Follows Voice Commands
If the Terminator ever needed a four-legged companion, we imagine DARPA’s robotic pack mule, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) would be a strong contender for the title.
Computers Will Be Able To Smell, Hear, Touch, Taste And See By 2018 Says IBM
As part of its annual '5 in 5' predictions feature (in which the brightest minds and forward-thinking individuals of the company second-guess the future of technology), IBM presents the “five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years.” Over the coming years, computer hardware will develop the five senses...
Researchers Present An Alternative To Pixels
Truth be known, there aren’t too many technological constants. Passing electricity through a wire to make it bright, using flammable liquid to push pistons, and pixels. But while great strides have been made to improve each, underneath they haven’t changed. Researches at Bath University, Root6 Technology, Smoke & Mirror and Ovation Data Services have launched a new video codec that could finally put the old pixel to bed. In fact, those behind the research predict the death of the pixel within the next five years.
New Rising Media Christmas Gift Guide: Technology
The standard gadgets recommended in Christmas gift guides across the globe are boring, and they quickly become unused after the first few days of use 'just to show Grandma you're enjoying her present.' It's with this determination to do better, both for you and your loved ones, that we have compiled ten presents that will not only fascinate people upon first use; but stand the test of time.
FlyVIZ Gives You True 360-Degree Vision In Real-Time
Ever dreamt of having eyes in the back of your head? It seems a daft question, but not until you get your eyes on this from a team of French engineers. It’s called ‘FlyVIZ’ and it lets the wearer experience a 360-degree vision of their surroundings, in real-time no less, with the aid of a head-mounted display (HMD).
Jet Engine Cooling Tech Destined For Next-Gen Gadgets
Cooling electronics has always been a bit of a catch-22 as far as we're concerned. You go too far and the solution becomes far too noisy, not enough and things start to cook. Where water cooling offers the best of both, you have to leave system mobility at the door as once it’s up and running, it’s most certainly not moving. General Electric (GE) have taken a different approach. Using a method inspired by our own lungs, it's developed a miniature set of bellows they’re calling 'Dual Piezoelectric Cooling Jets' for the next-generation of gadgets.
HyperStealth Introduces New Technology To Make You Invisible
‘The Invisible Military Becomes Reality’ is the boast coming from Canadian camouflage design company HyperStealth Biotechnology Company, introducing a new material named ‘Quantum Stealth’ that can render a target completely invisible by bending light waves around the wearer.
Damson Twist Bluetooth Speaker Hands On At Gadget Show Live Christmas
Manned Commercial Flights To The Moon By 2020. $1.4 Billion For A Ticket
Former NASA executives unveiled "The Golden Spike Company," which plans to send manned spaceflights to the moon by 2020, offering private expeditions to governments and private stakeholders for $1.4 billion per flight.
Rumour: Samsung Galaxy S4 To Launch April 2013, To Feature ‘Unbreakable’ Screen?
Should we all survive the end of time as predicted by the Mayan calendar come 21st December, we could be seeing the next in the Galaxy S range, now onto the S4, as early as April 2013, with reports circulating that it may well feature an ‘unbreakable’ OLED screen.
Study Shows Mobile Phone Addiction Might Be Contagious
New research by the University of Michigan shows that you are more likely to pull out and use your mobile phone when someone around them does the same. Sort of like when you immediately yawn after someone else has; but whereas yawning is simply "contagious," this is a "contagious decision."
'Mr.Ghost.' Become A Real-Life Ghostbuster Using iPhone Attachment
Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Ghost, the electromagnetic field (EMF) detector for the iPhone, that turns any budding nerd into a Ghostbuster, allowing for exploration of the supernatural.
LG Unveils The World's First 84" Ultra HD TV At Gadget Show Live Christmas
There's little to deny that LG has delivered something truly special with this beauty: a super sleek, room-swallowing 84-inch 'Ultra HD' TV that the company claims to be not only one of the very first Ultra HD displays to reach UK market, but one that also happens to be the largest.
Google Nexus 4 Hands On At Gadget Show Live Christmas
A successor to the company’s previous flagship handset – the Galaxy Nexus – the Nexus 4, inspired in design by Google but built by LG, it’s one of the most fully-featured smartphones currently at market – that is, if you can manage to secure stock from the Google Play Store – but also one of the most affordable, coming in at £239 for the 8GB and £279 for the 16GB. Without question, this is one Nexus worth getting excited about.
Brave Robotics Create Real-Life Transformer
1/12th the size of your average Transformer of the Autobot variety, Japanese developer Brave Robotics' 3D-printed car-to-bipedal transformer robot is no less impressive. Replete with a Wi-Fi-enabled camera that appears to wirelessly feed footage in real-time over the cloud and working headlights (it's the small touches that count), the walking robot can even fire tiny darts from its arms. (A rocket launcher attachment is presumably pending approval.)
Microsoft Surface RT Hands On At Gadget Show Live Christmas
Arriving just over a month from the launch of its new operating system, Microsoft’s impression on the Gadget Show Live Christmas floor was a quite considerable one. Dominating a hefty chunk of the floor space at the show (as well as its entrance), it was difficult to miss anything the computing giant had to offer; from the array of devices running its new OS, to the promotion of its first-ever tablet PC: Microsoft Surface.
IT’s Not Just For The Boys – A Conference For Female Undergrads Studying Computing
'IT's not just for the boys' at Bloomberg HQ in central London. Sat with a group of 80, gathering personal insight into the IT sectors of larger companies. It seems ironic that the first piece of advice that I would receive for working in this area is to not spend all your time behind a computer screen; but, then again, it seems like one of the most valuable tips.