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Consumer refers to technology specifically designed for consumer use, from computers and smart home technology, to personal gadgets such as wearables and smartphones.
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Wouldn't it be useful if you could go shopping, just take what you need and leave, without queuing, packing…
Carv: The winter wearable digital ski coach
Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten
With the support of Robotae, a robotics and mechatronics consultancy, Motion…
Red sky at night? That’ll be the blood-delivering drones
Johns Hopkins researchers have determined that large bags of blood products, such as those transfused into patients…
I believe I can fly…in a paper-airplane drone
With the FPV paper-airplane drone from Powerup Toys, it's possible to see what it is like on board. Once folded,…
Apple Watch clocks up best sales ever
Tim Cook has delivered an update on Apple Watch sales through the unusual medium of email to Reuters reporter. “Our…
Machine-learning and neurology for face recognition
A new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human…
Hacking a credit card in six seconds
It can take as little as six seconds to work out the card number, expiry date and security code of any Visa credit…
X-A10: The camera for the selfie-taker
The X-A10, an X-series camera, has been announced by Fujifilm and hits the lowest price point yet for the…
Computer learns to recognize sounds through video
Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos…
The inventor of science fiction, and VR goggles?
Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term 'science fiction' as the…