Why should your phone be the "smartest" thing in your pocket? Why can't simple everyday objects like keys and wallets be hooked up to the cloud and made to display useful data like the weather or bank balances? Designer/hackers Ben ...READ MORE›
Microchips are made from silicon and plastic for a good reason: it's very easy to control and make sure each component is exactly like every other. But Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs thinks that electronics made ...READ MORE›
Or should be. Why do we waste so much fuel hauling food in tractor-trailers (or "lorries"), wonders a UK-based group? Foodtubes wants to shuttle food around in tubes underground. Will you give it $20 million to try out the idea?READ MORE›
Several times we've predicted the future world will be one where everything is networked to everything, and now IBM's revealed it has the same goal. It's releasing new software to enable "the internet of things" so that sensors can ...READ MORE›
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