Gadgets: Affordable, customized headphones that sound nice, too
You might think a customized set of headphones would cost an incredible amount of money, but that is not the case with iFrogz headphones.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 8, 2009
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08/07/2009
From pythons to fungus, species invading US
(AP) -- A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2009
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Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out
(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room for improvement.
Internet
Jul 8, 2009
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New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets
In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 8, 2009
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Top media execs wonder how Twitter will make money
(AP) -- Major media executives are impressed with Twitter's growing popularity as a communications tool. They just can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make money.
Internet
Jul 8, 2009
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EMC wins bid contest in $2.1B deal for Data Domain
(AP) -- For the last month and a half, a fierce bidding contest has lit up a staid but increasingly critical part of the computing world. On Wednesday, EMC Corp. walked away with the prize.
Business
Jul 8, 2009
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Robot Learns to Smile and Frown (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 8, 2009
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Explosive growth of life on Earth fueled by early greening of planet
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments in Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 8, 2009
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Beyond -- way beyond -- WIMP interfaces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now European researchers have developed a platform ...
Software
Jul 8, 2009
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Keeping harmful bacteria from progressing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Wyoming and an institute in Germany have completed a project that, for the first time, has identified how sunlight changes activity of a particular class of proteins called ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 8, 2009
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