In a country with a population as large as China's (over 1.3 billion), unique solutions are sometimes needed for pedestrian management. With the practice of texting while walking becoming increasingly common, the city of Chongqing recently came up with an idea that may seem ridiculous at first, but could catch on: separate cell phone lanes for pedestrians...

The use of mobile technology has likely helped to improve your business in many ways, but are you saving room in your budget for it? Probably not, according to a new study from accounting solutions provider Sage North America. Businesses in the construction, food and beverage; and manufacturing and distribution industries overwhelmingly agreed that mobile technology has positively impacted their businesses, the study reported. However,...

Gadgets that monitor your sleeping habits aren't new, but a new prototype by the startup Hello tracks your snoozing patterns and the environment around you - and you don't have to wear anything while you're in bed. A small sensor-filled ball called the Sense is picking up huge traction on Kickstarter. In less than 48 hours,...

Honda's remarkable humanoid robot, ASIMO, has come a long way since I first saw it stiffly walk across a stage more than a decade ago. The latest edition can run briskly, climb stairs with ease, dance like Travolta, kick a ball and jump up in down in what can only be described as a robot tantrum. The 4 feet tall, 115-pound robot now features five dextrous fingers on each hand with force feedback sensors. As we saw in its first North America demonstration at the International Auto Show in New York on Wednesday,...

A lot of hyperbole has been written about the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, both positive and negative. When dummy units of both models began leaking in June they were derided as ugly and bulky and when specifications appeared they were attacked for being underpowered compared to the competition. Now as reviews fly in the new iPhones are being heralded as the best mobile phones ever made. This is a remarkable turnaround, but is it deserved?...

In January this year I wrote about five features the iPhone 6 must have to stay in the game -something that many readers clearly felt very passionate about. Finally, according to the ever-more aligning rumor mill, Apple is set to launch the iPhone 6 on 9th September, which makes sense given its past record of release dates. This means all will be revealed in a month's time. So, nearly 8 months on, am I still excited and if so by what new features?...

Researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EFPL) in Switzerland have created a group of modular shape-changing robots called Roombots that are 3D reconfigurable, meaning they can change shapes and in this case, would be come adaptive furniture. The whole idea, the researchers admit, sounds a little crazy, was to create furniture that would literally change shape over time to fit the personï؟½s needs who was using it. A table could become a chair and vice versa. Modular robots are very simple robotic modules that can attach and detach themselves. In addition to changing shapes,...

Today, wearable technology - devices such as Pebble, GoPro, Jawbone, Google Glass and FitBit are just a few examples - is an exciting new trend in the consumer world. For more evidence of this technology's popularity, consider that Amazon.com recently announced the launch of its wearable technology store to give customers access to a wide array of the most popular wearable devices. But...

The massive data centers that power services from Google, Facebook, IBM and other tech giants are big-time energy hogs. But researchers around the world are starting to turn them into an energy source. Data centers are large facilities filled with servers and other equipment. In the United States, data centers are responsible for more than 2% of the country's electricity usage, according to researchers at Villanova University. If the global cloud computing industry ...

AT SXSW, a techie festival that took place in Texas earlier this month, some lucky attenders were able briefly to immerse themselves in HBO's fantasy television series, "Game of Thrones". By donning virtual-reality goggles made by Oculus VR,...