Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.
New notebooks, mapping software and data warehousing software can't compete with wine software in our book. Check out all of this week's Australian product announcements.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.
A Belgian professor doing research for Sony wants to teach robots to be more like people--but he's running into some resistance.
Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?
Early buyers won't get all the power they bargained for in the latest Pocket PC-based handhelds. A generational mismatch in the gear is taking the pluck out of performance.
According to market researchers, as the new millennium arrives, widespread free Internet access will arrive with it. Both Dataquest and Datamonitor are predicting that the year 2000 will bring on the era of free Internet access that many technology pundits have been predicting for years.
Travel alot? need a mobile phone that travels well too? Sure, you could buy one of those monster satellite phones, but unless you've got thousands of dollars to spare and don't mind lugging around a brick, it's not a practical solution.
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