Carnegie Mellon University’s WorldKit system allows a user to “paint” interfaces onto everyday objects and surfaces. “Literally you can put a touch screen anywhere on your environment with WorldKit,” ...

Some things have become so ubiquitous that we never stop to wonder what came before them. Take the neat row of icons stacked at the bottom of your Mac screen. Before 1984, these little icons simply ...

yup the palo alto laboratories paid handsomely to society, but not at all to the company owning it. In general I agree that bluesky research like that is a good thing. As a shareholder for the company ...

When your aging laptop or desktop computer is slowing to a crawl to get through day-to-day tasks, you don’t necessarily have to recycle it or hand it off to someone else. Your old machine can be ...

If you’re used to working with multiple computer monitors at your desk, traveling with a laptop can be tough. Suddenly, you’re back to the single-screen lifestyle, and on a cramped laptop display to ...