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Radio-frequency energy from television, AM, FM, cellular, WiFi, WiMax, Long-Term Evolution and more can now be harvested to power smarter electronic devices for security, environmental sensing, structural monitoring (bridges/buildings), food spoilage and wearable bio-monitoring devices.
Desktop Virtualization Growing to $5B by 2016
Virtualization will seep into every aspect of business computing over the next five years, growing tenfold as recession cost-cutting fades and mobilization of the workforces increase.
Supercomputer Simulates Extreme Physics
A powerful supercomputer code update will allow laboratories and universities a better understanding of high-energy density physics and provide insight into the basic properties of matter in extreme situations.
Touch-Screen Musicians Jam in Virtual Band
Smarter drummers have always made music by tapping their fingers against tabletops. Now musicians who play the bass, drums and keyboard are getting into the act with specialized apps for large, flat-panel touch screens.
Seeing Is Believing When Cloaks Disappear
The world's first visible-light cloak recently converted nonbelievers by making a tiny object disappear—Harry Potter style.
Eternal Arigato, Mr. Roboto
Humans and dancing robots trade places in a provocative new opera exploring immortality.
U.S. and China Leverage Official Apps
The governments of the world are issuing smartphone and touch-screen tablet apps to stoke their public relations efforts, with recent new offerings from both the White House and Beijing.
Micro-Camera Delivers Clear Picture at a Low Cost
The device could transform health care, auto manufacturing and government.
New Nanoparticle Rubber Stamp Technology May Mend Wounds
A new approach to treating wounds relies on the application of small doses of silver administered via a rubber stamp.
Smart Companies Improve Customer Service with Predictive Analytics
To address the more dynamic nature of doing business today, smart companies increasingly are turning to predictive analytics to spot market changes and identify potential problems and correct them before they impact the customer.
Smart Solar Growing Faster than Market
In the rush to build manufacturing capacity for smarter solar power technologies, overcapacity is now predicted to drive prices down and pressure vendors toward mergers as market growth cools to sustainable rates.
Dial M for Money
In Kenya, M-Pesa enables people to send and receive cash using a simple cell phone and text messages.
Smarter Silicon Retina Aims to SeeBetter
The European Union is aiming to revolutionize artificial vision for both man and machine with an imager that mimics the real-time spatial and temporal processing of biological retinas.
For 100 Years, IBM Patents Have Changed IT
IBM received its first patent in 1911. In the hundred years since, the patents consistently have been for inventions that translate into real-world (and smarter) solutions.
How to Start a Business Analytics Effort
Companies that use data analytics typically have more revenue growth and a higher return on capital investment. To overcome the obstacles to widespread analytics adoption, here are some steps your organization can take to realize these business benefits.
Smarter Nano-Materials Beat Bad Bugs
Hospitals worldwide are suffering an increasing number of bacterial infections that have become resistant to antibiotics. New nanotech materials promise to eradicate bacteria in the body without affecting healthy human cells.
Toward a Smaller, Smarter and More Efficient Data Center
Four current IT trends could result in data center space requirements shrinking dramatically before the decade is out, according to Gartner.
Micron-Sized Mics Beam-Steer, Cancel Noise
MEMS microphones just plunged to the micron scale, encouraging mobile device makers to use multiple microphone arrays that can aim at the user's lips and also cancel background noise.
Smarter Mobile DRAM Satisfies Need for Speed
Dynamic random access memory holds the video, audio and other multimedia content as it plays on your smartphone or touch-screen tablet, but high-definition content is spawning the need for a speedier mobile DRAM architecture.
Innovative Computer Model Accurately Simulates Cell Behavior
In the most detailed simulation of its kind, a new computer model accurately replicates the behavior of a living bacterial cell.
