Innovation: Better hands may help robots grasp meaning
Some fresh thinking is changing the way roboticists think about robot hands – and what they could mean for robot learning
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Innovation: how to delete corporate logos from view
16:02 22 October 2010 | 1 comment
A number of artists are using augmented reality to allow you to subvert or remove the logos and adverts that are all around
Innovation: The smartphone's shape-shifting future
16:31 11 October 2010 | 2 comments
The solid outer shell of today's cellphones might be replaced by a squeezable, breathing, wriggling version in future
Innovation: Online army turns the tide on automation
16:31 05 October 2010
Computers can take jobs away from people, but thanks to Amazon's Mechanical Turk workforce, humans are fighting back
Innovation: What's the right path for indoor satnav?
15:47 21 September 2010
Nascent indoor positioning and navigation systems might share the runaway success of GPS satnav – if we can agree how they should work
Innovation: TV networks to become social networks
17:21 10 September 2010
The union of social networking and TV technology means big changes are coming soon to your living room
Innovation: CERN collides with a patent reality
17:37 06 September 2010 | 6 comments
CERN, the organisation that gave away the World Wide Web, is finally thinking about protecting its intellectual property
Innovation: Sunrise boulevards could bring clean power
14:34 27 August 2010 | 13 comments
Could roads surfaced with solar panels bring renewable energy to our doors?
Innovation: Hand-held controls move out of sight
14:48 23 August 2010
Fat fingers get in the way of touchscreen interaction, so why not banish touch to the back of mobile gadgets?
Innovation: Mobile malware develops a money bug
12:33 17 August 2010
The first hackers to write malware for a new device often do it to impress their peers – but a new smartphone trojan was made to steal money
Innovation: Reinventing urban wind power
16:49 06 August 2010 | 8 comments
From fish tails and leaves to wind concentrators, there is more than one way to tap into the slow speed of wind in urban areas
TELEVISION
The scramble to give TV a third dimension
Although 3D TV sets will go on sale to consumers from 2010, the technological and artistic problems facing programme makers are far from solved