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Virtual Smart Home Is Controlled By Thoughts
Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe...
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The Future of Gadget Interaction
Many innovative technologies funded by the European Commission (EC) were spotlighted at the Science Beyond Fiction conference in Prague. The EC announced in April...
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Virtual Cocoon Could Simulate Five Senses
Research teams from York University and Warwick University, along with experts from the universities of Bangor, Bedford, and Brighton, are working to create new...
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Students Build Hand-Gestural Pc Interface
Controlling applications with hand gestures is a more natural way to communicate with computers, according to a team of engineering students at Northeastern University...
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Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing
A new approach electronic-paper developed by Philips offers fresh hope for color e-paper displays that are so bright and clear that even traditional liquid crystal...
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How to Make (robot) Friends and Influence People
A team from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University has created a robot with its own Facebook page in an effort to enable the...
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Make Brighter, Full-Color Electronic Readers? Brilliant!
An international collaboration that includes the University of Cincinnati has announced the development of Electrofluidic Display Technology (EFD), which they say...
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When Virtual Reality Feels Real
Researchers in the European Union-funded Presenccia project are conducting experiments to understand why humans interpret and respond to virtual stimuli and to...
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Videoconferencing Technology Possible For Cell Phones, Pdas
A new low-bandwidth, high-frame-rate videoconferencing technology that creates the appearance of three-dimensionality and a strong sense of co-presence without...
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Microsoft: Space Is the New Frontier in Computing
Microsoft Research Cambridge managing director Andrew Herbert says we are moving into a client-cloud era in which space is the new frontier. He says computingView...
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Amazon to Launch Kindle For Textbooks
Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday (May 6) plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical...
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Students Make Atari Games Look Like Atari Again
Georgia Institute of Technology students have developed a system that recreates the original picture and experience of Atari video games. Old video game displays...
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Robot With Skin to Improve Human Communication
Computer scientists at the University of Hertfordshire are covering a child-sized humanoid robot with artificial skin in an effort to help autistic children improve...
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Web Tool 'as Important as Google'
Physicist Stephen Wolfram says the goal of his free Wolfram Alpha program, which will be available to the public starting in the middle of May, is to "make expert...
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Computer Scientists Add Smell to Games
Birmingham University computer scientist Bob Stone is developing artificial smell simulators that could be used to make video games more realistic or by the military...
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Touch Screen Adds Tactile Pop-p Buttons
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have developed sensor feedback technology that features buttons that pop out from a touch-screen surface. The technology...
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Team Recreates Ancient Karnak, Brings Pharaohs' Complex to Life
A team of more than 24 scholars and technicians at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has created the Digital Karnak, a three-dimensional (3D) simulation...
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Microsoft Executive Sees Rise of Tablets, 'Room Computer'
Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer"...
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Companion Robots Will Improve Elderly People's Quality of Life in Smart Homes
The Companionable project is working to improve the quality of life of elderly and disabled people through robots designed to operate in intelligent homes. The...
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