For those who, after suffering from a stroke or a degenerative disease, have lost the ability to speak and have serious difficulties in moving normally, among the several problems that they encounter to carry out even the simplest tasks of daily life, one of the hardest is often the one that involves communication with others. [...]

With a delay that it’s hard not to notice, finally Panasonic has decided to play its cards on the mini camcorders market, a market dominated by devices with an extremely small size, a generally affordable average price and a good quality (which of course may vary depending on the price, and vice versa). To do [...]

As soldiers deployed in war zones know too well, danger may be waiting around the corner, behind a closed door or in the form of a homemade bomb (the so called IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices) which may explode at any time. Neutralizing these bombs is one of the hardest jobs for the troops, and [...]

Terrafugia, one of the most popular names in the world of flying cars has just presented the concept, integrated with computer graphic images and technical specification, of its next vehicle called Transition Roadable Aircraft (TRA). It is a hybrid vehicle, whose characteristics might be summed up with the description give on the manufacturer’s website: land [...]

The latest frontier in the development of pilotless planes or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)might be, in a not so far future, be crossed by Fedex. The express courier giant, in fact, is willing to consider the possibility of employing robotic aircraft in its fleet. The idea would be using them not only as transport planes [...]

Aside from the latest political developments in Italy, according to which the Government seems to be busy fighting telephone wiretapping, by complicating the regulations that rule the usage of listening bugs, using hidden microphones is in any case not always easy for the police, and they must always have an alternative available to be able [...]

Generally, people are prone to thinking that the military has a very tight relationship with technologies, keeping for themselves all those devices they use to do their job, devices which in some cases hit the civilian applications market only a few years after having been thoroughly used by the men in uniform. In some cases [...]

Since we are talking about vehicles that can recharge themselves, let’s go back to the Mother Earth, and more precisely in Italy, in the city of Parma, where technicians from the VisLab laboratory of the local University have launched a very ambitious project, that is, the intercontinental road trip of an autonomous vehicle, capable of [...]

Steve Jobs and the folks at Apple like to boast that there is nothing you can’t do without an iPhone app. Now it looks like another step in this direction has been taken by Raytheon: in fact, the Massachusetts giant is working on Patriot Crew Drill, some sort of videogame whose effects are far from [...]