Just like it is happening (or at least, some are trying to make it happen) in Italy, where the Berlusconi government is trying to have a bill approved which would dramatically limit freedom of expression, thus placing a gag also on blogs which are regarded as the last real free means of expression on the [...]

For the first time in history of military aviation, a jet fighter capable of taking off and landing vertically, and also equipped with Stealth capabilities to escape enemy radars, has been able to flay beyond the wall of sound. This achievement was reached by an F-35 series jet fighter, called F-35B, which a few months [...]

In Japan, researchers from the public broadcasting company NHK are working on the development of a new kind of camera called “millimeter wave”, which works with a principle similar to radars, and is capable of visualizing images of objects and people thanks to the usage of radio waves instead of visible light, even if the [...]

To take video footage of extreme sports or parachute jumps, or of a simple bicycle trip with your friends, to mount them on your helmet while riding your bike or to keep them in your backpack during a picnic, the so called Action Cams are becoming more and more common. Thanks to their sturdiness and [...]

When you are using a closed circuit TV system, in case of particular events it may happen to have to sit and closely watch hours and hours of footage that always looks the same, to find those few seconds in which something important is happening, and try to extract clues or information out of those [...]

Surveillance cameras, which nowadays can be seen at any street corner in our cities, use “fish-eye” lenses to cover an angle as wide as possible. Of course though, a fish-eye lens would end up providing a distorted image, especially on the outer edges, offering a wide view but a lack of clarity or of proportions. [...]

Those who have lost, or never had, their sight, are always forced to resort to an external aid, such as a support person or a guiding dog, as soon as they set foot outside their home. To make life a bit easier for them, at least during their journeys on foot, Na:Vi, the first GPS [...]

Those with the unhealthy habit of pushing a bit too hard on the gas, and maybe even willing to challenge the cops by breaking through a checkpoint or trying to escape the police chasing them, might calm down a little bit if the agents were assisted by Scarab, the prototype of an electric vehicle, completely [...]