CellScope, which was born in a UC Berkeley bioengineering lab, has secured $1 million from Khosla Ventures to develop hardware and software that could push the limits of remote health care services
MaKey MaKey, a USB connectible board that can turn any object into a touch sensitive button, has just finished a fundraising round on Kickstarter at 20 times its goal.
Feel Me is a smartphone application that believes the kind of communication that breeds true connection is just as much about the content shared as is it is about connecting with the presence of the other person.
Tactus Technology says it has developed a system that can actually raise portions of a device’s screen to create a QWERTY keyboard, a traditional phone interface, or almost anything else.
If you see something you want behind the Swap-O-Matic’s glass display, cash or cards aren’t even an option. Instead, you’ll need to pick something you don’t need anymore, and offer it up for trade (the device relies on the honor system).
Using a Kinect camera and smartphone accelerometers, Microsoft Research has come up with a creative solution to distinguish between multiple user inputs on a large-screen touch display.
Fictify prods and cajoles would-be writers, rewarding them for setting and completing word count goals, and lecturing them when they don’t.
Not much attention has been paid to the Galaxy S III’s other voice recognition technology, a surprisingly advanced system that can wake the phone up from sleep mode.
Internet connectivity is nowhere near leveling off, according to an annual Cisco forecast, though future growth will be increasingly driven by mobile devices.
The mobile operating system scene is now dominated by Apple and Google, according to research firm IDC, with the two now accounting for a combined 82 percent of the market. The other 18 percent is a surprising mixture of has-beens, potential rivals, and unknowns.
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