A man who has been paralysed for the past 20 years is able to walk again thanks to a revolutionary electronic exoskeleton.
Radi Kaiof, 41, now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum as the system moves his legs and propels him forwards. 'I never dreamed I would walk again. After I was wounded, I forgot what it's like,' said Kaiof, who was injured while serving in the Israeli military in 1988.
Bernama TV will launch Southeast Asia’s first live-feed Internet news channel on Sept 3 to cater to the growing demands of a more IT-savvy and news-hungry populace.
Expected to be launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Internet news feed would only be between two to three minutes delay in comparison to the Bernama TV news on Astro Channel 502.
Imagine juicing up your laptop computer or cell phone without plugging it into an electrical socket. That's a luxury that could be provided by wireless power transmission, a concept that has been bandied about for decades but is creeping closer to becoming viable.
Building off work unveiled last year by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, Intel Corp. demonstrated Thursday how to make a 60-watt light bulb glow from an energy source 3 feet away.
BreakingPoint Systems released a detailed test methodology and video series that enables network engineers to test the deep packet inspection (DPI) features of content-aware network devices.
One of the few remaining Internet-free havens vanished Wednesday as American Airlines launched airborne e-mail, Web and other online services on some of its longer nonstop flights.
The move could create a new stream of revenue for an aviation industry facing high fuel prices and other challenges. But it also could create new headaches as passengers retrieve sensitive e-mails and websites in confined quarters.
Larry Horsley loves that he doesn't buy much gas, even though he drives his '95 Chevy S-10 back and forth to work each day.
Horsley, a self-described do-it-yourselfer, simply plugs his truck into an electric wall outlet in his Douglasville, Georgia, garage and charges it overnight, instead of buying gasoline refined from mostly imported oil.
The European Commission has recently decided to reserve, across Europe, part of the radio spectrum for smart vehicle communications systems. The decision is part of the commission’s overall fight against road accidents and traffic jams, and the hope is that vehicles’ developers will create wireless communication technology that will allow cars to “talk” to other cars and to the road infrastructure providers.
Virtualization, SOA, and cloud computing are keys to accommodating the anticipated growth of datacenters in an energy-conscious environment, an IBM official stressed Monday. In a keynote presentation and subsequent interview at the Share conference in California, Helene Armitage, vice president of systems software development in the IBM systems and technology group, emphasized substantial growth projections for datacenters.
Around 1 billion people around the globe are estimated to have tuned in to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I wonder how many of them realised that some of those fantastic fireworks they were watching had been created by a computer visual effects team?
You've heard of hybrids, electric cars and vehicles that can run on vegetable oil. But of all the contenders in the quest to produce the ultimate fuel-efficient car, this could be the first one to let you say, "fill it up with air."
That's the idea behind the compressed air car, which backers say could achieve a fuel economy of 106 miles per gallon. Plenty of skepticism exists, but with many Americans trying to escape sticker shock at the gas pump, the concept is generating buzz.
