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These walls (and teddy bears) have eyes

News The experimental system -- which consists of a series of sensors under the baby's mattress and a camera mounted on a wall -- will monitor a child's heart rate, temperature and movement, stream video of the infant and even take pictures.

10 June 2005, 9:35

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

News.blog: Wii to surf Web with Opera

News Wii users will browse the Internet using their consoles, navigating sites via the new Wii remote controller, a two-handed, motion-sensitive system that allows players to mimic actions on-screen with the movement of their hands.

11 May 2006, 10:28

News.blog: Sony's techno-colour Vaio CR series

News Sony has long led the laptop-as-fashion-accessory movement (see previous C series models), offering laptops in wild colours when other manufacturers were just starting to experiment with hues beyond black and grey.

12 June 2007, 9:16

Apple fights AIDS with new red 8GB nano

News Product) Red is a corporate charity movement in which companies donate a portion of sales from designated products to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Apple is adding an 8GB iPod model to the (Product) Red fund...

6 November 2006, 9:54

Gates to free-software makers: keep the day job

News News.com: Looking at the open-source world, there's this movement away from selling licences toward selling support. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met this week with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com in conjunction with the company's Professional...

16 September 2005, 9:43

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

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

News.blog: Sony stole my controller, cries Nintendo

News But now it appears that Nintendo thinks that Sony's adoption of the motion-sensitive system, which allows players to control much of their on-screen movement simply by moving the controller around with their hands, was far more than a coincidence.

22 May 2006, 15:49

News.blog: NASA 'earbots' keep robots well balanced

News The earbot is a Styrofoam golf ball-like structure containing clusters of micro electro-mechanical sensors used to sense direction of motion, acceleration and rotation, much like the cochlea measures head movement.

3 October 2006, 9:26

Motorola boss hails smart phone's future

News A movement is afoot within the software industry to create micro-applications, such as customer-relationship management software, forecasting systems and revenue-tracking software, and load them on to these handheld devices, said Zander.

10 May 2007, 11:02

Photos: Sling shows off at CES

News Media giant CBS has joined the Clip + Sling movement, which hopes to build a community like that on YouTube, but without the copyright issues and with a focus on content with high production value. Sling Media was one of the many companies making...

11 January 2007, 11:05

Tate Modern Web site rehung

News Tate Modern has also introduced additional educational features to the site, including a timeline of the gallery's works, where users can trawl its catalogue according to art movement, period or year.

27 June 2006, 9:52

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

News.blog: Blur beware

News The latest advance in antiblur weaponry, the IIC automatically adjusts the camera's ISO setting and shutter speed in accordance with a subject's movement and light conditions. Panasonic unveiled three new additions to their FX Series LUMIX...

20 July 2006, 9:07