IBM and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have just announced that they’ve created chips that can simulate a cat brain, as part of their Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (Synapse) project. The goal is to create a “robot using this multi-chip...

2012 is the year that semiconductor companies start rolling out 28nm process technology. Why is it important? Why should you care? Well, for a lot of reasons. One big reason is that for many people buying the upcoming iPhone, or any other new smartphone this year, is that they will be outdated by...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will be unlike anything we’ve seen in science fiction. AI won’t resemble big clunky robots in the near future, but rather, will resemble nature. This paradigm shift towards building ever smarter AI should occur around the year 2020, and will effect...

This year, the Wimbledon Finals will be filmed in 3D by Sony and broadcast on BBC HD. To celebrate, Sony are hosting an online tennis ball hunt with some great prizes up for grabs. We’ve released thousands of virtual tennis balls all over the internet. It’s up to you to hunt them down. Every...

You can already hear the whispers of excitement with SXSW (South by Southwest), right around the corner. This year, in Austin, thousands will be gathering March 11-19, 2011 to attend conferences and festivals featuring music, film, and breaking technology. People of all ages from all over the country...

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year in Las Vegas, Nevada, showcased a slew of web-connected devices that enable users to communicate with their electronic appliances right from their smartphone. At CES, LG announced their “Thinq” lineup, that features a home smart meter, a fridge,...

Here is a really cool app for your iphone called Malibu’s Music Mixer. This app let’s you produce your own party-inducing mix from tracks by the hottest DJ’s around the world right on your phone. Major Lazer, Style of Eye, Riva Starr and Mowgli are some of the featured artist...

Camera company Leica will turn a lot of heads with their new campaign called ‘Sharpest Details’, devised by the agency Y & R Zurich Advice . The idea of the campaign is to highlight the characteristics of  their new digital macro S2 and V-Lux 1 camera, some posters have been created...

Slowly but surely RIM keeps making improvements on devices baring the BlackBerry stamp.  The worlds most respected name in smart phones has some new gadget tricks in the works with a new mobile phone called BlackBerry Empathy currently in development.  The forward moving concept behind the Empathy...