Site Search

The basket - a tiny take on a kind of pick-up truck crossed with a roadster

Automotive

Inside the box: Daihatsu Concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show

Daihatsu's stand at the opening day of the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show featured six mini concept cars focused very much on practicality in an urban environment.

Apple's new wireless Magic Mouse features a multi-touch surface sitting atop an aluminum base

Computing

Apple introduces world’s first multi-touch wireless ‘Magic Mouse’

The entire top of Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a seamless hard acrylic multi-touch surface that lets users navigate using the finger gestures made popular on other Apple devices.

The original MotionPower prototype undergoing testing at a Burger King drive-thru

Automotive

Promising tests for MotionPower system to generate electricity from traffic

New Energy, the company developing the MotionPower technology, reports it can produce a 25-fold increase in the system’s capacity to capture kinetic energy from moving vehicles.

The Philips Wireless HDTV Link replaces cables for wireless viewing up to 1080p

Home Entertainment

Philips' Wireless HDTV Link transmits up to 1080p

The Philips Wireless HDTV Link, which wirelessly delivers high-definition TV picture quality (up to 1080p) should appeal to viewers who enjoy HDTV but have suffered from a lack of flexibility with their set-ups.

Team Germany celebrates its overall first place win (Photo: Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon)

Architecture

Solar Decathlon 2009 results are in, and the winner is...

The winners of the Solar Decathlon 2009 competition, which sees 20 university-led teams from around the world competing to design, build, and operate the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home, have been announced.

Bicycles

Lexus HB Concept 2WD pedal-assist, carbon-fiber racing bike

Designed totally inside Lexus by Lexus designers, this sleek electric pedal assist bicycle is among the many hidden gems to be unearthed at the 41st Tokyo motor show.

The Cyclops mobile robotic platform is designed to be used as a surrogate for blind persons in the testing of visual prostheses (Image: Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell)

Robotics

Cyclops - the visually-impaired robot

Scientists at the Caltech have created a remote-controlled robot to help test the effectiveness of visual prostheses, such as an artificial retina, which are implanted into visually-impaired patients.

Stanford Professor Shan Wang and graduate student Richard Gaster, left, have developed an early-warning system for cancer (Images: L. A. Cicero)

Wellness and Healthy Living

Magnetic nanotags detect cancer much earlier than current methods

Extremely sensitive nanosensor chips are being developed by Stanford University researchers in an attempt to detect the early signs of cancer, called biomarkers, in humans.

Samsung’s STORY Station drives cut standby power consumption by 95 percent

Computing

Samsung STORY Station external drives cut standby power consumption to less than 1W

Samsung’s STORY Station 3.5-inch external hard drives cut the standby power consumption of external hard drives less to than 1W - a reduction of more than 95 percent over typical external hard drives.

Mobile Technology

Casio to release Exilim CA003 phone with 12MP camera

Casio has announced its upcoming Exilim CA003 camera phone featuring a 12MP camera with autofocus and 3X optical zoom.

Delta's Pilar kitchen faucet is controlled by a touch anywhere on the faucet or handle

Around The Home

Delta’s Pilar kitchen faucet offers unique touch-technology

Delta's unique Pilar kitchen faucet can be activated by a touch or tap anywhere on the spout or handle

Home Entertainment

Toshiba's ZX900 Series Cell LED TV set for the US market

Toshiba plans to make the most of the Cell with a new range of Cell-powered TVs for the US market - read on to find out what 200 gigaflops can do inside a TV.

Search results for

FREE NEWSLETTER