New Quantum Dots Make Colors in LCD Even Brighter
Doping of quantum dots promises LCDs comparable to OLED displays for color brightness
Japan's Telepathy One Aims Smaller Than Google Glass
A Japanese wearable visor promises the social sharing of real-time experiences
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Student Startups Shine at Demo Mobile 2013
You didn’t start your first company until you graduated? Slacker!
Altia Systems Has a Fix for Low-Cost Video Conferencing
The $600 PanaCast puck may take some of the pain out of video conferencing
Taser Cam Puts Policing in the Spotlight
Taser's new head-mounted camera for police officers offers both promise and peril
Paying for Free TV
Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and puts them on your computer, tablet, and smartphone—for a fee
Solar Robots, 4K TVs Spring Forward
Plus: the Woz-Cave and Waterproof Nanocoatings
Glasses-Free 3-D From Almost Any Angle
Grid of gratings could create 3-D displays for smartphones and other small devices
Kinect Fusion Lets You Build 3-D Models of Anything
The new API will make it easy to generate 3-D models with a handheld Kinect
Authenticating Video
The Guardian Project’s software authenticates human rights videos and protects activists in the field
Big Data Versus Little Data: Predicting the Academy Awards
A Microsoft Research economist’s focus shifts from presidential prediction to Hollywood handicapping
Bang & Olufsen’s Geoff Martin Pursues the Perfect Sound
At Bang & Olufsen, Geoff Martin brings a musician’s sensibilities and an engineer’s precision to loudspeaker design
Electronics on Paper
Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets
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CES 2013: Making a Case for 4K TV
Manufacturers hope “pull-you-in” immersion will draw consumers.
CES 2013: A Tale of Two Television Strategies
Panasonic puts "smarts" front and center, while LG wants to overwhelm you with pixels
CES 2013: UrbanHello Takes a Step Toward the HD Telephony Era
A sleek new cordless handset will talk to old phone analog networks or new digital ones
Teaching Computers to Hear Emotions
New research can detect five different emotions with 81 percent accuracy
Kodak's Digital Imaging Patents Sold For $525 Million
Purchasing consortium includes such unlikely allies as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Samsung
The End of the Public Phone Network
A Washington, D.C., committee wants to phase out traditional telephony worldwide, by June 2018
License Plates, Cameras, and Our Vanishing Privacy
New license-plate video cameras are tracking millions of us as we drive around
A 15-Year-Old Polymer May Challenge Indium Tin Oxide In OLED Displays
New fabrication techniques that improve conductivity and transparency excite researchers.
TV’s Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes Back
New digital technologies could put over-the-air TV back in vogue
A Click and Drag Calculator Of Your Consumer Electronics Energy Footprint
Knowing how much energy your computers, TVs, and cell phones could make you a better consumer—or not
Hurricane Sandy’s Radio Days
Battery powered radios—and batteries--were in short supply in the storm-struck Northeast; is it time for FM chips in cell phones?
How RCA Lost the LCD
RCA owned the early patents but failed to commercialize the liquid crystal display
Video and Audio Enabler WebRTC Near Release
A simple way to turn anything with an Internet connection into a peer-to-peer video calling tool
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UltraHD, the TV Technology Formerly Known as 4K, Gets Ready To Hit Store Shelves
The really high resolution, for really big TVs, gets a new name.
iPhone 5, Not A Suprise
Rumors about the iPhone 5 prove to be largely true, leaving disappointment in the wake of the release
Theodore Roosevelt, Captured on Spinning Wax
A Roosevelt impersonator and an Edisonian audiophile bring the former U.S. president’s words to life
Microsoft's KinEtre Animates Household Objects
New Kinect technique lets your body control virtual versions of anything
Digits: Hands-Free 3-D
Microsoft's new gadget Digits eliminates gloves from 3-D motion capture with a wrist-worn sensor