movement

Photos: Dubai's 'dynamic tower' in motion

News This artist's rendering shows the building at rest, though even here the undulating lines suggest movement. Despite the movement of the floors, the building will have a normal plumbing system", he said.

Tags: press, motion, conference, energy

2 July 2008, 9:18

News.blog: Firefox 3 downloads pass 8 million mark

News It's a movement people want to belong to. Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla has said more than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online. Mozilla, the not-for-profit organisation behind the open...

Tags: firefox, downloaded, copies, downloading

19 June 2008, 8:27

News.blog: Apple TV gets Wiimote tech?

News The research, reportedly outlined in a November 2006 patent filing disclosed last week, describes a device that would work similarly to the Nintendo Wii controller "in videogames to position a user's character or to otherwise track the movement of...

Tags: apple, products, remote control, controller

12 May 2008, 9:24

Photos: Fashionable tech hits the runway

News These sensors pick up movement and transmit that data to a computer which, as a final result, creates sound. The crowd at the 2nd Skin fashion show at San Francisco's Exploratorium on Friday night eagerly anticipates the latest advances in fashion...

Tags: skin, networks, credit, person

29 April 2008, 9:11

News.blog: iPhone to get chat app?

News In response to detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of a user contact with the touch-screen display, the display of messages (is) scrolled in accordance with a direction of the scrolling gesture.

Tags: apple, messages, chat, messaging

23 April 2008, 9:34

Photos: Control your iPod with a wink

News Called the KomeKami Switch, or Temple Switch, the gadget uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer to detect differences in the movement of your skin when you wink. A researcher at Osaka University in Japan has developed a device that allows users...

Tags: eye, ipod, switch, university

5 March 2008, 9:28

Photos: MythBusters test sharks and ninjas

News Another of the myths the show will explore during its Shark Week episode is the idea that sharks are innately attracted to movement, and that a shark would be more likely to attack a dying fish that is flapping around than one that's dead and not...

Tags: shoot, weight, water, air

3 March 2008, 9:31

Home Office laptop 'sold on eBay'

News Governmental departments have suffered a spate of laptop thefts in recent years, recently leading to a Whitehall-wide ban on the the movement of unencrypted data. The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with...

Tags: keyboard, laptop, disc, encrypted

29 February 2008, 9:06

News.blog: Microsoft tunes in to open-source world

News Ballmer has never appeared fully comfortable with the open-source movement and interoperability. As previously reported, Microsoft announced that it will publish reams of documentation around its communication protocols to make it easier for third...

Tags: value, documentation, requirements, commercial

22 February 2008, 9:29

Mobile handset makers set for 2008 battle

News And beyond this trend for smarter devices, which the analyst says dovetails neatly with mobile operators' need to increase average revenue per user, there's a movement towards openness too -- as heralded by Google's

Tags: multimedia, battle, models, platforms

4 January 2008, 10:00

Photos: Toyota's robots work mobile magic

News On the other hand, it can negotiate rough ground and can even handle steps because the left and right wheels are capable of independent vertical movement. Toyota unveiled the two newest members of its 'partner robot' family: the wheeled Mobina...

Tags: robot, robots, toyota, violin

10 December 2007, 9:12

Photos: Inside the wireless rabbit

News Not exactly direct drive, the movement of the ears is driven by two electric motors and this intricate gear system. A plastic bunny with whirling ears and blinky lights? For some folks it's an object of affection, but Mark Kaelin over at...

Tags: gear, electronic, mark, captions

23 November 2007, 9:26

Photos: RoboCars of 2057

News This enables programmable tensiometry and fluid movement while ensuring efficient energy transfer to the in-wheel electro-static nanomotors," according to Mazda. Four wheels with 360-degree movement are controlled by the driver through a suit that...

Tags: japanese, car, america, powered

1 November 2007, 8:44

News.blog: MIT's brain-to-machine aid

News Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Wednesday that they've developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual's brain activity to the person's intentions and then translate that intention...

4 October 2007, 8:55

Photos: Low-cost tech aids basic needs

News The growing social entrepreneurship movement is increasingly attracting the interest of venture capitalists and corporations. The world of consumer electronics thrives on the latest, greatest and fastest gadgets.

27 September 2007, 10:37