The LineFORM robot: more flexible than the average yoga teacher (and twice as tech-y)
It sounds like convergence gone mad: a mobile device that doubles as a shape-changing chord, a dynamic body constraint, a smart ruler and an object...
“A Fitbit for your career” – Humanyze is wearable tech to help companies understand their staff
How are you doing at work? OK? Very well? Slightly underperforming? Probably a mixture of the three, depending on how your day is going. But it can...
ARmKeypad is decidedly handy
Sick of your titchy smartphone keyboard? Not convinced by those odd-looking fold out jobs? Well how about a keyboard that is projected onto your...
Nostalgic for the 2000s already? We have the game for you
Nostalgia for the past is inevitable, but past seems to get closer every year. So it should not come as a surprise that someone has already decided...
Spoiler Alert is the antidote to internet blabbermouths
Rare is the internet user who hasn’t had their day thoroughly ruined by someone on social media giving away the latest plot twist in a hot TV...
Technology is stressing us out – but can it also de-stress? The US military thinks so
Some 44% of Britons suffer from stress according to a major 2013 study by BUPA; of these 28% say they have been feeling that way for over a year....
GE’s smart streetlights will – rather depressingly – soon sense gun shots
File - we hope - under ‘Only in America’: General Electric has announced a new partnership with ShotSpotter to incorporate its gunshot detectors...
D Free to be free from toilet trouble
A wearable device that reminds you when you need to go to the toilet might sound like a joke. But when you consider that the young, the old, the...
Fujisawa SST – a Smart City based on people, not technology
The more impressive technology becomes, the easier it is to get blinded by its benefits and to create technology for technology’s sake. In the world...
Monkey menace versus Smart City in India
From network security to clean energy resources, Smart City planners have a lot on their plates. So spare a thought for those in Dharamshala who are...
Get fit with no exercise – maybe – thanks to science
Exercise is great. But wouldn’t it be even greater if your muscles could get all the benefits of exercise without you having to do any work? That...
FoxType is an email politeness tool your gran would approve of
If you, like me, find that email is almost that perfect tool for inadvertently offending people - all those rapid messages and bursting inboxes -...
Electronic tattoos – from monitoring wounds to detecting lies
Temporary tattoos - those slimy, peel off appropriations of anchors and Disney cartoon characters - were a highlight of many of our youths. Now,...
Pocket dialling – the phantom menace
Pocket dials - or butt dials as our American friends call them - are doubtlessly annoying. But they are also becoming a strain on the emergency...
Facebook love story is a Kraftwerk album come true
Facebook has long been an important tool for dating - all tremulous friend requests, artfully arranged pictures and poetic status updates - but it...
Wearables for Good proves that wearable tech is not just Apple Watches and Fitbits
The world of technology, for all its faults, does have a notable philanthropic edge: think Bill Gates and his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or...
Are you looking at me? 3D printed cape asks disbelieving world
We’re big fans of wearable tech but frankly this gives us the creeps: architect and interaction designer Behnaz Farahi has created a new 3D printed...
Dutch DJ is sheer online danger
He may look friendly with his winning Dutch grin, but DJ Armin van Buuren is dangerous. Well, dangerous that is to look up online: Intel Security...
Smart Cities: the US finally makes a move
When you’re investigating Smart Cities the same names keep on cropping up: Barcelona (Juniper Research’s Global Smart City 2015), India (thanks to...
Big Ben begone: Camera Restricta says no to cheesy pics
We’d all like to be cool photographers, chroniclers of the unnoticed and otherwise unseen. But sometimes the pull of the Eiffel Tower / Big Ben /...
JeffConnect: mHealth for when the Pope is in town
From the media attention to the overall holiness, having the Pope visit your town can bring some intriguing benefits. One of the least obvious...