The latest--and perhaps most hazardous--roadblock on the Chevy Volt's journey to a car dealership near you might just be the unexpected resignation of General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson. Henderson has only been running the ...READ»
Drinking alone has never been so much fun.
After our recent report on the brew-sniffing augmented reality app from Stella, we started drinking thinking about the wider world of suds. Turns out there's a keg's worth of new ...READ»
We've covered the concept of kinetic energy before and have even seen it put to work at a Sainsbury grocery store, where vehicles in the parking lot power the checkout line. Now researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. ...READ»
Dear Dan,
My daughter turned 16 about six months ago, so naturally I am terrified of her getting in a wreck. To make matters worse, I rode with her recently and she started texting while she was driving! I gave her an earful but ...READ»
Facebook seems like a damn good mirror for reality, according to research by scientists--at least if you're talking about your real-life persona. Because your Facebook profile turns out to be excellent at capturing your true ...READ»
After a year of dithering, controversy and retro-thinking government meddling, the FCC has finally begun the process of enabling new whitespace broadband Wi-Fi devices. Good news. But if it makes you scratch your head, then let us ...READ»
Call it the Al Gore Effect or just an inconceivable truth, but the Pentagon, among other members of the Military Industrial Complex, actually are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint. In fact, they are so concerned for the ...READ»
The eco-artist turns the things we throw away into stunning decorative objects--from chandeliers made of washed up trash, to coffee tables made of broken rear-view mirrors. READ»
Google's offering free Wi-fi access in cafes--but not in the U.S. The company is busy wooing customer affections in another country: Japan, where it's losing the search engine battle.
We're used to Google dominating pretty much ...READ»
I got all excited about Twitter's geotagging feature before, and now it's getting a new spin that wraps in another neat technology: Augmented reality. Enter Twitter 360, an AR iPhone App that puts Tweets in a global navigational ...READ»
Nokia is suing 11 LCD manufacturers--including Toshiba, Sharp, Philips, Samsung, and LG Display--for price-fixing. It alleges that from 1996 to 2006, these companies artificially inflated the prices of the displays Nokia uses in ...READ»
This week in TreeHugger: Another nail is pounded in the coffin of dead tree books--the Kindle outsold everything on Amazon. Also, the truth behind the hacked climate emails and the future of compressed air cars.READ»
Boulder, Colorado is a hub of smart grid activity. It's already set to become the country's first "Smart Grid City", relying entirely on smart meters. And now the city is set to contain the first net-zero neighborhood in the U.S., ...READ»
Sure, the cotton industry wants us to think that the material is the fabric of our lives. But maybe it actually is--in more ways than one. Cotton can usually only be eaten by cattle, which have stomachs that can break down ...READ»
Nicole Lazzaro, 44, has studied emotion and player experiences in video games for 20 years and is the designer of Tilt, the first iPhone accelerometer game. Her firm helps the likes of Sega and Ubisoft create games that resonate with iPhone users.READ»
We love technology here at Fast Company. And we're big on design too. Which is partly what makes RED's digital cameras quite so awesome, since they mix the two exquisitely. And the newly official RED Scarlet may even change the DSLR ...READ»
