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Whether it’s iPads replacing textbooks or college courses being offered free around the world, education is moving into some uncharted territory.
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So What Do We Do With All This Data?
Scientists think all the personal information now being shared on social networks or collected by sensors could help them predict the future
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Are Your Eyes Also a Window to Your Brain?
Research shows you can learn a few things about a person by watching where they’re looking.
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Here are young entrepreneurs whose innovative thinking has them poised for big things this year
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Can This Invention Save Cameras?
With the Lytro camera, you no longer have to bother with focusing an image. Plus, your photos become interactive
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A Preview of CES: When Cars Become Smartphones
Is the day coming when your car will talk to your alarm clock and also check your heart rate?
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Researchers are finding that our behavior may be more hard-wired than we’d like to believe. If so, can we handle the truth?
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Here are more of the terms you should know if you want to feel plugged into innovations changing the way we live this year
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Here are terms you should know if you want to show you’re already plugged into the new year
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In their day, maids a-milking and pipers piping might have made for one fine gift. But it is the 21st century. A replacement list is in order
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One Step Closer to Beating Old Age
Thanks to medical innovations and research breakthroughs, living past your 100th birthday will one day not be such a big deal
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So Many Gadgets, So Little Time
Innovation happens so fast now that it’s harder and harder to keep up with the pace. But is it really innovation?
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My Name is Presto and I’ll Be Your Waiter
At more and more restaurants you’ll be ordering your meals on a tablet at your tabletop. Will we miss waiters?
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For Children, Print Titles—Not e-Books—Reign
The act of sitting with a child and paging through pictures and words together, offers a shared understanding of the world and a memorable experience
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Examining Telecommuting the Scientific Way
A trial at a company in China finds telecommuting workers are more productive than their counterparts in the office
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Robots are able to do a lot of things. But now they’re taking on the biggest challenge of all: Figuring out how humans work
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The idea of manipulating the Earth’s atmosphere has been derided as too risky and too arrogant. That may be changing
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Scientists are testing innovative ways to keep frightening memories from controlling people’s lives
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Jaron Lanier’s Virtual Reality Future
The father of virtual reality believed technology promised infinite possibilities. Now, he worries that it’s entrapping us
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