Creative

The results of a new study suggest that listening to music can significantly impair your ability to perform creative tasks. Whilst music was found to disrupt creative processes, ambient "library noise" was found to have no significant effect.

The brain is more complicated than the simplistic adage that left-brain thinking is logical while right-brain thinking is creative and new research is showing how creative thought is determined by how effectively the brain can communicate between different regions that usually work separately

In this final part of our deep dive into the world of computational creativity, we turn to the underlying ideas and challenges that face the field as a whole as researchers grapple with questions of non-human creativity and public fears about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

Algorithms can already produce remarkable architecture of incredible detail, that never would have been possible before computers and modern fabrication techniques. Now there are robotic craftsmen under development, that may soon add a touch of uniqueness to stock standard buildings.

Painting might be the last thing you'd expect computers to excel at, but artificial intelligence researchers are proving that computers can in fact generate paintings and other kinds of visual art with a high degree of skill and, arguably, imagination.

Computer algorithms and artificial intelligence programs are fast approaching the level of humans in music composition, and AI researchers say they computers have immense capacity for creativity. But what does computer-authored music sound like? Why do it? And how is it changing music creation?

Creative has combined its audio processing know-how with audiophile-grade components for a new addition to the Sound Blaster audio family. The X7 boasts more features than any Sound Blaster before it, including a built-in power amp, cross-platform connectivity and intelligent audio enhancement tech.

The Slinky could be making a comeback in the form of Project NESM, a machine that allows a Slinky to roll on a desk for as long as the user would like it to.

When Creative announced its new Sound Blaster Roar speaker, a couple of features stood out as unusual. The in-built siren and the "life-saver mode" that plays loud noises to keep you awake seemed at odds with its main focus of premium quality audio. Gizmag put the device through its paces.

Creative has launched the Sound Blaster Roar SR20 portable Bluetooth speaker, with five speaker drivers in a bi-amp configuration and long battery life.

Creative takes on the might of Microsoft's Kinect with the Senz3D at this year's IFA. Gizmag was on the scene to give it a brief whirl, and came away impressed with its control.

The “LapTouch” laptop concept consolidates design functions and reduces desktop clutter through its combination of keyboard and graphics tablet into a single package.