Japan Gadget Turns Plants Into Speakers
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The therapeutic power of flowers takes on new meaning with a Japanese gadget that turns plants into audio speakers, making the petals and leaves tremble with good vibrations.
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Forget Bluetooth and UWB. A group of Japanese companies believes it's found a better answer for short-range networking.
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Scientists have demonstrated a way of transmitting electrical power through the air, raising the prospect of wireless gadgets such as mobile phones, MP3 players and laptops that do not need power leads to recharge their batteries.
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Science & environment: Plastic pipes could pump water to bring up nutrients.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have used spinach to harness a plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy for the first time, creating a device that may one day power laptops, mobile phones and more.
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A company called Jook Inc. has developed a way for multiple earbud-wearing practitioners of the digital life to share music through a kind of broadcasting technology.
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New lightweight microphone systems allow high-fidelity recordings to be captured and stored on an iPod and can easily be transferred to a computer
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New gadgets include a keyboard with call buttons and a speakerphone.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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A conglomerate of Japanese companies hopes to develop biochips.
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The company claims to have developed a new technology that uses plastic instead of glass. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Scientists create a tiny engine that could become a power source for future nano-scale devices.
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A rose is a rose is a phone? British scientists seeking to protect the environment have designed a biodegradable mobile phone cover that breaks down in soil when discarded and sprouts
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LONDON - Flowers could someday sprout from biodegradable cellphones, say researchers who have found a way to embed a seed inside the plastic.
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WHEN I WAS a teenager, I was a fixture at the local Tweeter store. In those days, I dreamed of jettisoning my generic tape recorder in favor of a rack-component system with speakers that towered over my room like the giant stone heads of Easter Island. I peppered the &#xFC;ber-knowledgeable Tweeter salesmen with technical questions until I was able to ...
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Big Blue teams up with Japanese company on a device that lets users access songs within a remote control.