Curious Technology Category - Page 5

I consider myself a coffee lover, although I would think I’m far from being a connoisseur. I’ve tried my hand at different brewing methods, like drip, press and espresso. There are a handful more, using various tools and implements. If you love making coffee as much as drinking it, then [...]

For better or for worse, the technological advances we have made in the last few decades has changed the way we do many things in our day to day lives. The text message may have changed communication the most with people shooting off short texts as opposed to making a [...]

Broadband users in Europe have long been complaining that their internet service was not top of the line. It appears that there is no longer than problem. Hylas 1, which is a broadband dedicated satellite, will be launched into space by the EU on Friday.

Long time MIT high tech inventor Ramesh Raskar is apparently very close to inventing a laser guided camera that can actually see around corners as long as whatever is around the corner can be reached by light.

As Smartphones continue to gain popularity over their brethren who act only as phones, new uses keep popping up every day. One area of use that has gained enormous popularity is the mobile health app and one research firm thinks those apps will boast 500 million users by 2015.

If you want to own a piece of computing history you can do it this week. Of course, you’ll need a pretty deep pocketbook. One of the original Apple computers that was handmade and sold out of Steve Jobs’s parents’ garage is going on sale at Christie’s in London.

Some of the things we see in Sci-Fi movies seem so far off from our modern technology that it is almost a pipedream. Then we see stories like this and realize that Sci-Fi isn’t too far off. Swiss drug maker Novartis has developed a health monitoring microchip called the Ingestible [...]

Move over Harry Potter and James Bond. We don’t know if it’s technology or magic, but the metamaterials currently being developed might just solve the invisibility puzzle for real. With the use of nanotechnology, light can now be bent such that objects can disappear right in front of your eyes.

If you think that using gadgets to restore eyesight to the visually-impaired were the realm of science-fiction, think again. Neuro-ophthalmologists from Germany’s University of Tuebingen have developed a microchip implant that can generate 1,500-pixel images that restores eyesight to the blind.

The Chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Nicholas Negroponte produced a video which announced that their new tablet, the XO-3 will not be released until sometime in February of 2011. That means the release of the tablet has been pushed back around 45 days, having originally hoped to [...]