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Worldwide mobile communication device sales to end users totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 19 percent from the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.
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If you were a pirate on the open seas you wouldn’t be too concerned about having a beer can thrown at you would you? Perhaps you should be!
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From today, when you want to buy a coffee or a sandwich, instead of reaching for coins or a credit card you can just brandish your phone.
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Scientists from the University of Sheffield have developed pigment-free, intensely coloured polymer materials, which could provide new, anti-counterfeit devices on passports or banknotes due to their difficulty to copy.
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iRobot Corp announced plans to create Android applications for the iRobot Ava mobile robotics platform.
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A fully autonomous robot, Pneubron 7-11 has been created at the Hosoda Labs in Osaka University. The Pneubron robot was designed to find the link between human interactions and motor development.
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Portable card readers Ingenico EFT930W offered to the market by Penki kontinentai group member ASHBURN and its partner UAB UCS Baltic are already successfully in use in almost 200 venues where payment cards are accepted, including the Mambo pizzeria chain, restaurants of the Delano and Vičiūnų groups, etc.
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When robots talk to each other, they're not generally using language as we think of it, with words to communicate both concrete and abstract concepts.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth delivers landmark speech of reconciliation during visit to Ireland but stops short of apology.
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French climber Alain Robert, known as "Spiderman" scales Turkey's tallest building.
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The growth of a tree takes place so slowly that, in real time, it's impossible to observe. Six years ago plant-lover and British film-maker Neil Bromhall decided to speed up the process with time-lapse photography...
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YouTube has launched a memorial channel for journalists who have been killed while reporting from around the world.
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Facebook updated its promotions guidelines this week, and has now confirmed that it no longer blanket-prohibits promotions (including give-aways) for tobacco, dairy, gambling, firearms, prescription drugs, and gasoline.
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Chinese artist Wang Jiang makes portraits of famous faces including U.S. President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden from nothing but paper torn by hand.
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Using laser and nanotechnology, scientists in Chicago have been able go back in time and uncover how masterpieces from artists like Homer and Van Gogh might have looked like when they were first painted.
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Most mechanical resonators damp (slow down) in a well-understood linear manner, but ground-breaking work by Prof. A. Bachtold and his research group at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology has shown that resonators formed from nanoscale graphene and carbon nanotubes exhibit nonlinear damping, opening up exciting possibilities for super-sensitive detectors of force or mass.
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Automated driving systems, such as adaptive cruise control, may be the latest "must have" gizmos but the auto industry is already looking to their successor - cooperative driving - where cars communicate with each other as they go.
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The ability to control objects simply by thinking about them is the subject of serious research in laboratories around the world with wheelchairs and even cars now being driven by the power of the mind. It's all very serious science, but in Japan, technologists are demonstrating that mind control can also be a lot of fun.
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For the past few years, researchers have been using quantum dots to increase the light absorption and overall efficiency of solar cells.
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'Ranger' the robot has set a world record for its developers at Cornell University, by walking 40.5 miles non-stop on one charge.
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