It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyses the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving based on your brain wave patterns. Similar technology could also allow you to control home electronics such as […]
A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth. Researchers who asked entrepreneurs and small business leaders about their motivations for achieving business success found that only 6.9% were driven by financial reward. Those surveyed cited a […]
As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use. A WiMAX network of the kind to be deployed across the United States by a joint venture dubbed Clearwire may render cable or phone line Internet obsolete and […]
You may never make it to the moon in person, but you can send your name there. The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/ , […]
A: The World Wide Web The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web’s effective launch. Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that the web, which started life in the CERN physics laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border in the early 1990s, could develop […]
In this article Eric Schmidt Google’s CEO gives insights into Google’s innovation culture Do companies have to manage innovation differently in a downturn? Can other companies emulate Google’s famous model of letting engineers spend about 20% of their time on projects outside their main job? Why aren’t many other companies doing this, too? What obstacles […]
