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Material could lead to fast, inexpensive sensors MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration and humidity. Among other applications,...

Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible...

IBM and Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, say they’ll work together and with others to allow avatars to move easily from one virtual world to another. Avatars are the graphical personae of people in virtual worlds, universes that exist...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gordon Moore, the unassuming billionaire co-founder of Intel Corp, says the end of the technology maxim bearing his name is drawing to a close, perhaps as soon as 10 years from now. Moore's Law -- based on the San Francisco native's...

Industry Leaders Develop Superspeed USB Interconnect Popular USB Computer Connection Technology Expands performance with Proposed USB 3.0 Specification INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 – Intel Corporation and other industry leaders...

The Ericsson Tower Tube is an innovative construction that houses base stations and antennas, fully encapsulating them in an aesthetic, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly tower. It employs cutting-edge design and building materials, and can...

Making calls from a cell phone with no battery, using just the warmth of your hand? Perhaps that’s no more than a pipe dream right now. But new circuits are already making it possible to harness body heat for generating electricity. Numerous items of...

The Yomiuri Shimbun The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry will start developing jointly with 10 automakers an operating system for automotive electronics, it has been learned. The decision will be announced this week, a ministry source said. European...

Flexible displays that can be rolled up are due to set the world alight, or so we are told. The trick is to find a way to make them cheaply and easily. LG Philips LCD Company, a joint venture between Philips and the Korean consumer electronics maker LG,...

EE Times (07/23/2007 9:00 AM EDT) LONDON — The past few weeks have seen frenetic activity in the still largely untested business of femtocells--also known as home basestations or 3G access points. A group of about 25 companies--including chip suppliers,...