Rafe Needleman: At an auto show a few years ago, I saw an exhibit that featured a custom-painted Mustang on a rotating turntable. As the light played across it, the car changed color in front of my eyes, from green to purple and back again. I was transfixed.
Nowadays you see flip-flop paint schemes more […]
Solar power is being harnessed at public toilets on Portobello’s promenade, perhaps lighting the way forward across the city.
The loos and washrooms have been fitted with a giant rooftop solar panel which catches what sunshine there is and uses it to heat water for the sinks.
The sun-powered loos - believed to be the first of […]
Girls in Canada’s high schools are less confident on computers and the Internet than boys and use them less, says a study that describes a new kind of digital divide in Canadian society.
The new digital divide, says the study released yesterday by Statistics Canada, is not about access to computers and the Internet — that […]
E-mail service will be available on all domestic flights in North America before the end of next year, although services elsewhere in the world will take two to three years to become widespread, according to the chief executive officer of Tenzing Communications Inc., which provides technology and services for in-flight messaging.
United Air Lines Inc. announced […]
Talking on a mobile phone while driving your car is just as dangerous when using hands-free equipment as when holding the phone in your hand, according to a Swedish study published on Monday.
The National Road Administration (SNRA) tested 48 people in driving simulators, dividing them into two groups — one with and the one without […]
Little packets that can make water in the developing world safer to drink for a few cents a day were unveiled on Thursday, as they undergo field tests in the Philippines, Guatemala and Iraq.
Procter and Gamble, better known for Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, said its PuR Water Purifier had the potential to save […]
eCommerce in Europe is in a fast-growing stage, and could exceed USD 200 billion by 2006, according to eMarketer, with sales growth predicted to rise from last year’s 50 per cent, to over 67 per cent in 2003. Europe’s eCommerce sales totals should go from USD 37 billion in 2003, to more than USD 200 […]
Carrying a mobile phone? Then someone could be tracking your every movement and know where you are. Big Brother? Perhaps, but it could just be a Mexican restaurant wanting to invite you in for dinner.
Your mobile phone says a lot about you.
The type of handset you own, the fascia you choose for it, the ringtone, […]
A global internet laboratory that simulates tens of thousands of virtual users has been launched by more than 60 companies and universities.
PlanetLab will be used to test new weapons for fighting internet worms and to develop better distributed computer programs, i.e. those that operate on many machines at once.
It will also be used to engineer […]
Doctors and nurses have known for many years that some people are more sensitive to pain than others. Now brain scans of people experiencing the same painful stimulus have provided the first proof that this is so. But the scans also suggest that how much something hurts really is “all in the mind”.
“We saw a […]