Innovation

AT&T, T-Mobile Making Your Calls Clearer

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Samsung Reportedly Making Its Own Virtual Reality Headset

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U.N. report: 40% of the world will be online by the end of 2014

An estimated 3 billion people – or 40% of the world population – will have access to the Internet by the end of 2014, a United Nations International Telecommunications Union report reveals.According to the U.N....

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Fly like an Eagle with Oculus Rift and This Funky Contraption

'Birdy' bills itself as an attempt to fly using virtual reality and a weird-looking table

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Automated Terror Machine: ATMs Spitting Hot Acid?

Researchers have come up with a chemical cocktail they say could be implemented in ATMs to defend against would-be robbers -- but there's no word on whether you'll get charged an extra fee for that

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How 3D Printers Actually Work

See how 3D printers create everything from guns to chocolate.

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New Kohler Tech Turns Existing Toilets Touch-Free

I have an embarrassing phobia to admit: Like an estimated 51% of Americans, I hate touching things in bathrooms. I don’t like touching bathroom door handles and I absolutely hate touching foreign toilet handles. Even...

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The Autobots are Coming! Whether We Want Them or Not

There may be an autobot in your driveway sooner than you think

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Scio Pocket Molecular Scanner Is a Google-like Device for Physical Objects

A couple weeks ago I had a fascinating video call with a gentleman named Dror Sharon, the CEO of a company called Consumer Physics. He showed me a product called Scio that just went up...

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This Billboard Sucks Pollution from the Sky and Returns Purified Air

Imagine air-purifying billboards going up any time you had a sufficiently large construction zone -- a step that became part and parcel of the preparation process.

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These Sunglasses Connect to Your Phone So You Don't Lose Them

Finally, a worthwhile use for technology.

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Graduate Student Creates a Nanowire Just Three Atoms Wide Using an Electron Beam

Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduate student Junhao Lin's three-atom nanoscale wire could be used to craft paper-thin electronic components that could in turn lead to much smaller and thinner mobile electronics.

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Boston Startup Wants to Make Classical Music Hip Again

If you walk into a chamber concert organized by Groupmuse, you soon realize this is not your traditional classical performance. There’s clapping in-between movements of Mozart’s duo in G major, as well as whistling, drinking...

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Smooth Moves: The Evolution of Honda's ASIMO Robot

As the robotics realm continues to heat up, Honda’s ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is something of an old-timer.It’s been around for 14 years, and has seen continual improvements – check out...

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12 Things to Know About Project Ara, Google's Amazing Modular Phone

It's wildly ambitious, it's designed not to fall apart if you drop it -- and it may not come to the U.S. anytime soon.

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How to Generate Solar Power Where the Sun Don't Shine

Imagine a versatile, environmentally nil nano-battery that provided heat for cooking or keeping you warm when the sun wasn't shining.

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This Animated GIF of a 3D Bear Has a Secret

Spoiler: He's not as digital as he looks

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This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad at Tech Predictions

Thirty-three years later, artist Robert Tinney's concept smartwatch is worth at least a thousand words

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