The Rapex is the brainchild of Sonette Ehlers, a retired blood technician in South Africa who was moved by the country’s outlandish rape rate, which is among the highest in the world.

If you have ever felt sorry for celebrities hounded by cameras as they go about their daily business - be that pumping gas or entering a flashy nightclub - you can rest easy. A group of researchers at Georgia Tech has designed what could become an effective celebrity protection device: an instrument that detects the […]

Police officers stepping into hostage standoffs and other dicey situations now have something new to throw into the mix — a baseball-sized camera that can be hurled from afar, survive the landing and wirelessly relay video and audio back to base for two hours.

Five years ago, if you didn’t know XML, you were the ugly duckling whom nobody talked to. Eighteen months ago, Ruby came into the limelight and programmers who didn’t know what was going on with Ruby weren’t welcome at the water cooler. Today, if you want to get into the latest technology rage, Ajax is […]