The fundamental building blocks of all computing devices could be about to undergo a dramatic change that would allow faster, more efficient machines. Researchers at computer firm Hewlett Packard (HP) have shown off working devices built using memristors - often described as electronics' missing link.
An Edmonton-area family is using a global positioning system device to track a severely autistic son and keep him safe.
Gail and Gordon Wyatt's son Ian, 17, has wandered away from the family home in Sherwood Park, east of Edmonton, many times since he was a young child, which has occasionally put him in perilous situations.
A technology guru at Intel Corp. predict that the internet will look significantly different in five to 10 years, when much of it will be three dimensional, or 3D.
Sean Koehl, a technology evangelist with Intel Labs, said technology is emerging that will one day change the way we interact with electronic devices and with each other. That could come as soon as five years from now when, he predicted, there will be realistic-looking three-dimensional applications.
Nothing changes overnight in IT. Even organizations on the cutting edge tend to cautiously adopt new technologies. Heck, they are even doing this with Windows 7 even though we've all been running Windows since the early 1990s.
The same holds true for Cloud Computing. Yes, cloud is the new new thing to quote Michael Lewis, and it does have the potential to radically alter the way applications are written, deployed, operated, and managed. That said, expect a slow steady migration like all other IT transitions.
After a wave of 3D movies such as Alice in Wonderland and Avatar, and a number of television manufacturers producing 3D TVs this year, there is growing interest in a three-dimensional viewing experience. The usual 3D technology uses a stereoscopic principle in which a slightly different image is presented to each eye, thanks to the special glasses the viewer has to wear. Now a device named pCubee gives you the experience of 3D without the need for the glasses.
RFID tags are in many of the products that we already buy today and the promise of RFID in the future is that we may not even have to stop at the register to checkout at the store. In the future, with prolific RFID tags more powerful than what we have today, all we might need to do is walk out the door with our carts and our total would be computed automatically. Today's RFID technology, however, is prone to hacking, which was demonstrated when researchers were able to clone an RFID passport while driving by it.
Researchers at MIT are working on getting computer chips to "self assemble" by coaxing molecules to arrange themselves into tiny but useful patterns, a process that could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements.
The introduction of Apple's iPad predictably divided gadget fans into "love it" and "hate it" camps.
The haters say iPad lacks multitasking, a webcam, Flash support, a USB port, massive storage, a removable battery, CD and DVD support, RAM upgradability, multiple OS support and other features.
German scientists say they've created a data connection that uses light produced by lamps to encode a wireless broadband signal.
The researchers, led by Jelena Vucic of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin, say getting a broadband connection might be as simple as turning on a lamp.
The country’s swift deployment of smart-grid technology has security professionals concerned that utilities and smart-meter vendors are repeating the mistakes made in the rollout of the public internet, when security became a priority only after malicious attacks had reached mass levels.
But when it comes to the power grid, the costs of remote hack attacks are potentially more dramatic.
