Soon, your refrigerator magnet might warn you when peak electricity rates kick in, allowing you to turn off a power-hungry pool pump or air conditioner. A new wireless technology called ZigBee, design
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Mobile broadband company NextWave Wireless Inc. says it has developed a mobile TV system for next-generation mobile phones that run on WiMax wireless technology. MXtv offers the ability to broadcast p
BY Jonathan Sidener
Philadelphia Phillies all-star first baseman Ryan Howard didn’t realize until recently that having his swing and other mannerisms captured for a video game would mean wearing a tight-fitting suit th
BY Jonathan Sidener
Island Data, a California firm founded in 1995 to help call centers automate some functions, revamped its business in 2004 to create software for scanning e-mails and other customer feedback for troub
BY Mike Freeman
The holographic video showed a tiny, 3-D man jogging in place inside a glass cube. The little black-and-white jogger can be viewed from the front, side or back.Attendees at the 2007 Special Interest G
BY Jonathan Sidener
Air travelers in Canada, Japan, Spain and Germany can navigate the airport without a paper boarding pass, instead using their cell phones to provide the information formerly printed on paper. Such hig
BY Jonathan Sidener
Chekesha Liddell, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell University, and Elliot Moore II, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute o
Stores are using a wide range of new technologies to thwart would-be shoplifters, from intelligent video surveillance, in which a camera zooms in on suspect behavior, to sensors that alert the store w
Consumers still grappling with digital transitions in television, music and photography have yet another digital turn in the road ahead: HD Radio. The new format, with improved sound quality for AM an
BY Jonathan Sidener
The Consumer Electronics Associ-ation, the main trade group for gadget makers, recently put out a report on the power used by home electronics. Perhaps the most interesting piece of the 147-page docum
BY Jonathan Sidener