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Looking to make typing on tablets easier (and add another term to the mobile computing lexicon), French company AlphaUI is looking to popularize “back-typing,” a concept that adds an external physical keyboard to the back of a tablet.

Tablets teased at CEATEC Japan 2010

A new food packaging film that contains sorbic acid is said to keep foods fresher, longer.

For the first time Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise has left the protective grip of its mothership, VMS Eve, to successfully achieve its first manned free flight.

Scientists at the University of Bonn have brought new meaning to the phrase "light-hearted" with the discovery of a way to cause arrhythmia in the heart cells of mice using only blue light and a sensor in the cell wall.

Mushroom-shaped solar evaporators designed to clarify black water from city sewage have taken out first place in a competition asking entrants to create an innovative urban vision for a development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA.

As part of Qatar’s bid for the 2022 World Cup, the London-based architects responsible for the 2007 reconstruction of Wembley Stadium, Foster + Partners, has designed an energy efficient stadium to be built in the Qatar capital of Doha.

The Skylifter is an airship concept that's based around a saucer-shaped lighter-than-air balloon.

A prototype surgical robot provides surgeons with force feedback, to let them feel how much pressure is being exerted on the patient's tissues.

Using an array of 16 microelectrodes researchers have translated brain signals into words.

The Mobileye C2-270 collision warning system alerts drivers of imminent collisions with other vehicles or pedestrians.

Navteq is revamping its navigation systems with "Natural Guidance" voice cues that replace "turn left in 300 metres" with something much more human like "turn left after the big church." Interesting idea, and a step forward in humanizing the GPS.