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Google has been developing autonomous car technology since 2010. Now, it has unveiled the first complete prototype of its self-driving car. The company expects the vehicle to be hitting the streets of California some time in 2015.

Kodak, a company best known for its film cameras before the rise of digital, is jumping into the Android smartphone game.

Back in May last year, the My Urban Vehicle project introduced us to a folding electric scooter prototype that was to go into production by the end of 2013. Now a new fully-functional pre-production version of the MUV-e has been revealed ahead of release next year.

To make UAVs more practical in debris areas, DARPA's Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program aims to develop algorithms that will allow autonomous fliers to negotiate obstacles as easily as a bird of prey.

Your heart rate, blood oxygen level and blood pressure are all key indicators of your cardiovascular state of health ... and that's just what MOCAheart is designed to measure.

Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a more cetacean-friendly sonar system called Acoustic Zoom that is not only less disruptive to marine life, but also improves resolution beyond that of current methods.

A home built in New Mexico, US, is expected to run entirely from the electricity generated from energy harvested by its nine 230 W solar panels. The Taoshouse also has a number of design features to help keep power usage to a minimum.

HP has announced a new model in its competitive Chromebook 14 line. Bearing the same moniker as the existing machine, the new notebook offers a higher resolution display over its sibling, as well as touchscreen functionality and increased memory and storage.

The latest iteration of Vo Trong Nghia Architects' low-cost house prototype boasts a quicker on-site build time of just three hours. Though it weighs 1,200 kg (2,645 lb), individual components are designed to be no more than 60 kg (132 lb).

The HexH20 multicopter has an epoxy fiber/carbon fiber waterproof body that floats on the surface of the water. This means that users can fly it out to a spot on a reasonably calm body of water, land it, get shots of whatever's lurking below the surface, then take off again.

A new technique involving complementary metamaterials allows high-frequency acoustic waves used in ultrasound to penetrate bone and metal by negating the properties of the so-called aberrating layers.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset could soon be getting a boost in functionality. SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is planning on adding eye tracking to the Oculus' recently-released Development Kit 2 (DK2).