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11:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 29, 2013
Technology Review Leap Motions Struggles Reveal Problems with 3-D Interfaces
It may take years for 3-D gesture-control to catch on with consumers and app developers.Hype surrounding Leap Motion, an $80 3-D gesture-control gadget touted for its exceptional finger-tracking accur...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 28, 2013
Technology Review Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues
Researchers have grown brain tissue that contains distinct regions that mimic different functional structures of the developing brain.Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 27, 2013
Technology Review A Wearable Computer More Powerful than Glass, And Even More Awkward
A startup that makes 3-D glasses stands out, in part, by including Steve Mann on its team.Steve Mann, a pioneer in the field of wearable computing, has been touting the benefits of head-mounted comput...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 23, 2013
Technology Review A Camera That Sees like the Human Eye
IBMs brainlike computer architecture paves the way for a new kind of artificial vision.The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fra...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 22, 2013
Technology Review Implanted Device Controls Rheumatoid Arthritis
A nerve-stimulating electrical implant could give people a drug-free alternative to current treatments.In early human tests, SetPoint Medical has found that an electronic implant helped reduce the sym...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Innovators Under 35 | 2013
For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, were presenting the stories in a new way. Weve grouped them by categories that reflect the...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Seven over 70
To complement our list of young innovators, here are several who have been at it for decades.For over a decade, weve celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young becau...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review 2013 Inventors | Innovators Under 35
Meet the people on our 2013 list who are building ingenious new technologies.For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, were presenti...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review 2013 Entrepreneurs | Innovators Under 35
Meet the people on our 2013 list who are creating businesses that could overturn markets or create new ones.For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technologic...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review 2013 Visionaries | Innovators Under 35
Meet the people on our 2013 list who are anticipating how technology can make life better.For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, ...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review 2013 Pioneers | Innovators Under 35
Meet the people on our 2013 list who are exploring the science that will lead to new technologies.For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakth...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review 2013 Humanitarians | Innovators Under 35
Meet the men and women on our 2013 list who are using technology to improve the lives of people around the world.For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of techno...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Christine Fleming | Innovators Under 35
Images of the beating heart could make it easier to detect and treat heart disease.Christine Fleming is trying to give cardiologists a powerful new tool: high-resolution movies of the living, beating ...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Hao Li | Innovators Under 35
Smarter animation bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds.Hao Li remembers watching Jurassic Park as a kid: That moment of seeing something that didnt exist in reality, but it looked s...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Meet Hao Li: 2013 Innovator Under 35
Inventing smarter animation that bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds....
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Evans Wadongo | Innovators Under 35
Growing up in Kenya, he strained to read by the dim light of a kerosene lantern. Now hes making solar-charged lanterns and using them to spur economic development.Kenyas unreliable electric grid doesn...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Steve Ramirez | Innovators Under 35
An MIT grad student can find and even change memories in a mouses brain.My parents came here from El Salvador in the late 70s to escape from civil war. They worked 100-hour weeks to give me and my bro...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review Julie Kientz | Innovators Under 35
If you want to use technology to make life better for people with autism and their families, the trick is to make the technology secondary.Julie Kientz is an expert in human-computer interaction. But ...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, August 21, 2013
Technology Review John Dabiri | Innovators Under 35
How is a wind farm like a school of fish?Caltech professor John Dabiri uses his engineering expertise to try to understand how animals move in their natural environments. While researching the swimmi...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 20, 2013
Technology Review The Man Who Drew Up Sonys Next Game Plan
Mark Cernys journey from 17-year-old Atari programmer to lead architect of Sony Computer Entertainment will define the next blockbuster games console.Mark Cernys soft voice and youthful looks belie th...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, August 16, 2013
Technology Review Could Electric Cars Threaten the Grid?
Some neighborhood grids just arent built for huge spikes in power demand. The rise of the electric car has utilities scrambling to adjust.Plugging in an electric vehicle is, in some cases, the equiva...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 15, 2013
Technology Review A Novel Way to Cut the Cost of Advanced Biofuels
Modifying a gene in plants makes it far easier to process biomass to make fuel.A novel genetic modification to plants could make advanced biofuels more competitive with fossil fuels, according to a st...
10:34 pm GMT - Wed, August 14, 2013
Technology Review Devices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals, and Need No Power Source
Devices that can make wireless connections even without an onboard battery could spread computing power into everything you own.A novel type of wireless device sends and receives data without a batter...
10:34 pm GMT - Wed, August 14, 2013
Technology Review Devices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals and Need No Power Source
Devices that can make wireless connections even without an onboard battery could spread computing power into everything you own.A novel type of wireless device sends and receives data without a batter...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, August 14, 2013
Technology Review Denser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash
A new memory technology can store a terabyte on a chip the size of a postage stamp.A new type of memory chip that a startup company has just begun to test could give future smartphones and other compu...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 13, 2013
Technology Review More Connected Homes, More Problems
They might offer convenience or potential cost savings, but Internet-connected home appliances may also create security risks.As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, ...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, August 12, 2013
Technology Review Cyborg Parts
Princeton researchers, using a 3-D printer, have built a bionic ear with integrated electronics.Lab-made organs could do more than just serve as ready options for patients in need: with the right blen...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, August 9, 2013
Technology Review An Electric Therapy for Medical-Device Malware
Researchers show how to spot viruses on equipment like drug mixers and pregnancy monitors: by examining their power usage.Hospital rooms beep and flash with many devices that are increasingly getting ...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, August 9, 2013
Technology Review Electric Therapy for Medical-Device Malware
Researchers show how to spot viruses on equipment like drug mixers and pregnancy monitors: by examining their power usage.Hospital rooms beep and flash with many devices that are increasingly getting ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 8, 2013
Technology Review IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brain-like Computing
IBM researchers unveil TrueNorth, a new computer architecture that imitates how a brain works.To create a computer as powerful as the human brain, perhaps we first need to build one that works more ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 8, 2013
Technology Review IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing
IBM researchers unveil TrueNorth, a new computer architecture that imitates how a brain works.To create a computer as powerful as the human brain, perhaps we first need to build one that works more li...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 7, 2013
Technology Review How Tesla Is Driving Electric Car Innovation
If you believe Tesla, affordable, long-range electric cars could be here sooner than many think.I recently took a test drive in one of Teslas luxurious Model S electric cars and toured its R&D lab...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 6, 2013
Technology Review Motorolas Moto X: Interface Innovation with a Learning Curve
Several days with the Moto X reveal some ingenious new features and a few shortcomings.The Moto X, Motorolas first phone conceived and designed since the companys acquisition by Google, doesnt boast a...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, August 5, 2013
Technology Review Romancing the Phone
Love and sex in the age of social media and mobile communication.Boy meets girl; they grow up and fall in love. But technology interferes and threatens to destroy their blissful coupledom. The destruc...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, August 5, 2013
Technology Review Romancing the Phone
Love and sex in the age of social media and mobile communication.Boy meets girl; they grow up and fall in love. But technology interferes and threatens to destroy their blissful coupledom. The destruc...
12:52 am GMT - Sat, August 3, 2013
Technology Review Motorola Reveals First Google-Era Phone, the Moto X
The Moto X lowers the emphasis on manual control in favor of always-on sensors built to respond to speech, gestures, and context.Google-owned Motorola unveiled the Moto X, its new flagship smartphone,...
12:52 am GMT - Sat, August 3, 2013
Technology Review Motorola Reveals First Google-Era Phone, the Moto X
The Moto X lowers the emphasis on manual control in favor of always-on sensors built to respond to speech, gestures, and context.Google-owned Motorola unveiled the Moto X, its new flagship smartphone,...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, August 2, 2013
Technology Review The Electric Car Is Here to Stay
The history of electric cars is long and full of false starts. But it looks like the latest wave wont be turned back....
12:52 am GMT - Fri, August 2, 2013
Technology Review Motorola Reveals First Google-Era Phone, the Moto X
The Moto X lowers the emphasis on manual control in favor of always-on sensors built to respond to speech, gestures, and context.Google-owned Motorola unveiled the Moto X, its new flagship smartphone,...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 1, 2013
Technology Review Belkin Gadget Will Reveal How Much Energy Your Devices Use
A project at Belkin could lead to itemized electric billsshowing how much juice your toaster or hair dryer uses.If you use a credit card or a cell phone, chances are you get a monthly statement detail...
11:50 pm GMT - Wed, July 31, 2013
Technology Review NSA Chief Says U.S. Phone, Web Surveillance Sets Standard for Other Countries
There are tight controls on the NSAs access to U.S. phone records and data from U.S. Internet companies, the agencys director says.The National Security Agencys collection of phone records and Interne...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, July 31, 2013
Technology Review New Forms That Function Better
Design software helps architects create grand projects with fanciful forms. Its time to put the technology to better use.Since the unveiling of Frank Gehrys titanium-skinnedGuggenheim Museum Bilbaoin ...