All the stories tagged with research
Robot Inchworm Can Fold Itself
05/15/2013, A self-folding robot adds more color to the robotics world.
Analyst Believes Microsoft Will Become Irrelevant If They Don’t Succeed In The Tablet Market
04/05/2013, We’ve heard the arguments and opinions in the past that tablets are considered to be part of the post-PC era, and that as tablets become more powerful, it wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination if one day they might [...]
Activision Shows Next-Gen Tech At GDC With Impressive Visuals
03/28/2013, The next-generation of video game consoles will usher in some amazing visuals, which we already caught a glimpse of during Sony’s PlayStation 4 unveiling. Activision’s R&D department took center stage yesterday during the company’s GDC panel called “next-generation character rendering,” which [...]
German Researches Bypass Smartphone Security Settings By Freezing It
02/15/2013, Apple’s iOS 6.1 passcode bypass exploit has been receiving a lot of attention since it was stumbled upon earlier this week with a fix planned for early next week. According to a new research published yesterday by Germany’s Erlangen University, passcodes [...]
Computer That Never Crashes Mimics Biology
02/15/2013, The University College London now has a computer that is said to never crash. We’ve all experienced it: computers do crash, so what makes this particular one impervious to crash events? To explain that, let’s look at why computer crash [...]
New Software Resurrects Dead Languages
02/13/2013, Researchers have managed to piece together a new tool that was specially developed in order to help it reconstruct long-dead languages, where it is also known as protolanguages. Protolanguages are considered to be the ancient tongues from which our modern [...]
Antarctic Legged Research Base Crawls Out Of The Snow
02/11/2013, On February 5th 2013, Halley VI Research Station was officially opened. It is located on the Brunt Ice shelf which is floating on the Weddell Sea. Construction started in 2005 at a cost of £26 million, by Faber Maunsell and [...]
Research Suggests Tablets More Popular Than E-Readers For E-Books
12/28/2012, With the convenience and slightly lower prices of e-books, it only makes sense that more and more people are starting to turn away from the print medium to the digital medium, and according to a research by the folks at [...]
Windows Phone ownership in Italy now at 5% according to research
12/14/2012, With the launch of Windows Phone 8 and its accompanying devices, presumably Microsoft was hoping that they would be able to do better compared to Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5, and it looks like that might be the [...]
Study finds that walking while texting is on the rise, could lead to accidents
12/13/2012, With the number of games, activities and connectivity that our phones bring with us these days, it is not uncommon to see people outside playing with their phones during their meals, when hanging out with friends, and even while walking, [...]
Sony HMZ-T2 3D Viewer Powers FlyViz 360 Degrees Vision
12/05/2012, French researchers at INRIA have come up with a vision system that provides a 360 degree vision to a user wearing the Sony HMZ-T2 which takes a video feed input coming from a camera paired with a hyperbolic mirror which [...]
Research suggests that Blackberry smartphones might contain allergens
11/12/2012, When it comes to choosing smartphones, pros and cons have to be weighed, such as display size, processor speed, choice of operating system, availability of popular apps, and etc., but it looks like we might have to start considering possible [...]
Researchers come up with a way that could double smartphone battery life
11/02/2012, Back in the good old days of the Nokia 3310, battery life on mobile devices was never really a big issue. Phones could be used for days on end, even weeks with minimal use, but with our smartphones these days [...]
