It’s a modern-day version of Marco Polo’s journey halfway around the world — but is anyone at the controls? The answer is NO! Two self-driving robotic electric vans have begun an 13,000 km epic journey from Italy to China that will take them through Siberia and the Gobi Desert in a quest to demonstrate autonomous driving technology. These bright orange vehicles, equipped with laser... 

What if most of the features required to make a perfect photograph are programmed into a camera? At the current state of digital photography, already so much of what makes a good picture no more involves a whole lot of human input–that’s one reason why digital cameras have made superb snapshots so simple. And with this new groundbreaking camera technology, now it will be even simpler!... 

Does anyone here remember the “Mechanical Mouse” (along with a mandatory mouse pad) that used to be an integral part of any computer that came 10 years back? Yes, I’m talking about the one that had a rubber or metal ball on its underside and mechanical sensors within the mouse, which detected the direction in which the ball was moving and moved the pointer on the screen in the same... 

This is one invention that has great ability to change your childhood notion about “how to insert a battery” and it has every potential to turn a “Microsoft hater” into their fanboy! How many times did you feel frustrated because a device refused to work because you put the batteries in the wrong direction? But thanks to Microsoft’s new revolutionary battery technologyInstaLoad... 

Flying cars might still be a long way from becoming a commercial reality, but that doesn’t stop designers letting their imaginations run wild when it comes to envisioning the airborne automobiles of the future… and they sure make for some gorgeous conceptual art. I know this looks straight out of a science fiction movie but this car called “Yee” (designed by Zhu Wenxi) not only could... 

Google TV was announced by the company at its annual I/O conference in San Francisco last week. With it, Google plans to bring the internet into the loungeroom of every TV-owning household in the world, with an ambitious new service that lets people mesh television viewing with surfing the web. So finally, Google has done it again. They have successfully combined Television with web access. Oh yeah!... 

If 3D televisions, motion-sensitive controllers and immersive online gaming still aren’t enough to entertain you, then researchers at the University of Pennsylvania might have what you’re looking for. Aptly named as Tactile Gaming Vest (TGV) – it’s a vest, embedded with finely tuned motors that mimic the sensations of on-screen characters. So the next time your friend shoots... 

Invisibility Cloak One Step Closer, Scientists Say If you are a die-hard Harry Potter fan like my brother, then here is some exciting news for you – A prototype “invisibility cloak”, similar to those worn by fictional wizard Harry Potter, has been developed by European scientists. British and German researchers have created the three-dimensional cloak that can hide objects by... 

Microsoft this week released a “platform preview” of Internet Explorer 9. This isn’t an IE9 beta, mind you; it doesn’t have the features you’d expect in a browser. It doesn’t even have an address bar for that matter. Instead, the IE9 Platform Preview serves as a sneak peek at some of the new web technologies and standards that Microsoft is working on building... 

Google is testing a TV search service on Android OS set-top boxes with Dish Network, the no. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, according to a Wall Street Journal report, but it’s still unclear whether the experiment will go anywhere. The service, being tested in conjunction with Dish Network satellite TV service, would allow users to search Dish programming as well as video Web properties, such... 

Light-speed computing is one step closer to reality. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new infrared laser made from germanium that operates at room temperature, which has made light-speed computing come one step closer to reality. The research removes the cryogenic cooling systems previously needed for infrared lasers and could lead to powerful computer... 

It’s sophisticated, it’s nasty, it’s ruthless and it’s intelligent. And it leaves no clue to the account holders when it decides to rip their balance off. Security experts agree that cyber-criminals are getting smarter, but this new Trojan takes things to a whole new level. This is one such Trojan horse program, which is very sophisticated and it keeps reinventing itself in... 

Yes it is True; Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized “nuclear battery” that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes. Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri...