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• Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’
Read This Thought: The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an ...
• Thunderous storm-chasing vacations
While increasingly sophisticated technology such as mobile broadband internet and satellite radio has heightened tour guides’ ability to find the best storms, not all groups get to see a tornado. Roughly speaking, you have a 50 to 70 percent chance ...
• Tech, Telecom, and Web Earnings Look Bleak
Concern over PC demand surfaced on Oct. 1 when memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) unveiled a larger-than-expected loss and said it expects growth in PC demand to be flat to up slightly in the current quarter. PC demand usually rises 10% to 15 ...
• 'Gizmo House' residents helped by technology
PLANTATION, Fla. - From the outside, the one-story pink house on the quiet, tree-lined street looks like any other in South Florida's suburbia. But once you go through the glass double doors, it's obvious: This home is different. Doors and lights ...
• Plastic film could make house lights obsolete
While there are plenty of problems to be worked out with the technology, it's not the dream of a wild-eyed startup. OLEDs are beginning to be used in TVs and cell-phone displays, and big names like Siemens and Philips are throwing their weight behind ...