Samsung system tailors ad to its audience
Samsung has developed an outdoor digital advertising system that tailors ads based on its audience.
Stories by Nick Barber
Nanotouch technology shrinks touchscreen displays
Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso Plattner Institut in Germany called Nanotouch allows a touchscreen device to be controlled from its backside, preventing fingers from occluding the screen.
Obama uses Web to solicit questions from public
President Barack Obama plans to answer questions on Thursday that were submitted to the White House through Google Moderator.
Flying car takes to the skies ... and roads
No longer a subject of science fiction, a car that can fly like a regular airplane, but then land, fold up its wings and drive away debuted in Boston Wednesday.
MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics
A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing
IBM to recycle silicon for solar
IBM announced Tuesday that it has created a process allowing its manufacturing facilities to repurpose otherwise scrap semiconductor wafers.