World news about “New technologies” published by euronews.
It’s a bug’s eye Insects have a wide field of view and are acutely sensitive to motion. Their eyes are made up of thousands of light-sensing structures. Each contains a lens… 22/05/2013
Focusing on the future These days cameras tend to be omnipresent, especially at important moments in our lives. They capture images our holidays, parties, or just everyday… 21/05/2013
Deep inside the brain The brain controls our thinking, feelings and movements and a new exhibition in southern France aims to reveal some of its secrets. European researchers… 20/05/2013
Dell’s profit dives as takeover battle rages Dell has reported a 79 percent slump in quarterly profit as personal computer sales continued to slide, with people moving to smartphones and tablets. The… 17/05/2013
It’s revolutionized shopping, dummy Shoppers are used to seeing the traditional, lithesome outline of a fixed-sized mannequin in high-street windows, showcasing the latest fashions. But a… 16/05/2013
Wi-fi makes room for li-fi Oledcomm is a Parisian start-up which has spent the last two years working with ‘li-fi’, or ‘light fidelity’: the transfer of data transfer through light… 15/05/2013
France ponders a ‘culture tax’ for digital device makers The French government has said it will decide by the end of July whether to hit technology giants like Apple and Google with new taxes to fund the country’s… 14/05/2013
Proton therapy gives cancer hope Several million people in the world are affected by cancer and there are various treatments available. Some patients undergo sessions of proton therapy, an… 14/05/2013
Shrinking the pacemaker At the Meditronic Company in Switzerland a new generation of equipment is being produced, from gloves and masks to much more complicated devices such as… 13/05/2013
New air for museums The precious relics on show in our museums provide us with a unique connection to the past which might otherwise be lost. But these remains are fragile… 13/05/2013
Crystal clear: behind the LCD screen We are surrounded by screens for much of our daily life; televisions, computers, mobile phones, tablets, the GPS in the car and so on. And around 90 per cent… 07/05/2013
Do the locomotion Could machines learn to walk? Legs have their advantages, especially on uneven terrain, but scientists have struggled for years to find a way to create in… 06/05/2013
Solar-powered plane starts US trip A plane powered by the sun’s energy has begun its journey across the United States. The aircraft dubbed Solar Impulse took off from San Francisco bay early… 04/05/2013
Atoms take the lead in world’s tiniest movie Researchers at IBM have used atomic clusters to create the world’s smallest video. Each frame was magnified a hundred million times to make it visible to… 01/05/2013
Smart floor that recognises individual footfalls Smart phones are part of everyday life, now scientists at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam Germany have developed a smart floor. It is a… 01/05/2013
Manage your mussels Mussel farming is one of Europe’s major shellfish industries, with total net production averaging around 500,000 tonnes per year, and with the potential for… 29/04/2013
Apple set for an i-fall Apple’s latest quarterly trading statement is expected to include the first drop in profits for a decade. Analysts are predicting that the iPad and iPhone… 23/04/2013
Profits up for Google and Microsoft Google’s core Internet advertising business saw its net revenue rise by 23 percent in the first three months of the year even as its Motorola mobile phone… 19/04/2013
Measuring with shadows The mouse has become part of everyday life. But the CSEM – the Swiss centre of electronics and microtechniques has invented what might become the mouse of the… 16/04/2013
Burn fat, not energy There are around 1.5 million sporting facilities in Europe helping people have fun, stay healthy, and have fun. But places like gyms, swimming pools, indoor… 08/04/2013
The MOOC Movement – learning for all? In today’s competitive world of education, universities are having to change and innovate. The creation of ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ or MOOCs, are an… 05/04/2013
The long wait is over Queues are so often the bane of our lives; you can find them with relative ease at banks, and airports, and train stations, and post offices. The list, like… 04/04/2013
Written on the wind – the future of texting? Typing text messages on a mobile phone via the tiny soft keyboard is very cumbersome. How about simply writing your words in the air? This idea drove the… 03/04/2013
Swiss sets sights on miniscule atomic clock Clocks and watches – they are our everyday companions, our faithful time keepers. We regulate our lives according to them. But are they totally trustworthy… 02/04/2013
UV-LEDs lower cost of water purification New technology for water purification has been developed based on UV-LED and photocatalysis. The water purification device is the work of a research… 01/04/2013
Turin police use spies in the sky to fight crime Police in the Italian city of Turin have taken to the skies in the ongoing battle against crime. A flying drone is the latest high tech tool to be used to… 01/04/2013
Warm liver works better 13,000 liver transplants are carried out each year in Europe and the United States. Donor organs are preserved by cooling them to slow their metabolism but… 28/03/2013
Dell deal delay? Dell has said it has received alternative buyout proposals that could be superior to $24.4 billion (18.9 billion euro) offer from founder Michael Dell and… 25/03/2013
Happy Birthday Twitter – 200 million users in just 7 yearsTwitter is celebrating its seventh birthday today and can reflect on its mammoth growth in that time. On March 21, 2006, the social network’s creator Jack… 21/03/2013
Automated aid Meet Hobbit the Robot – with a penchant for picking things up, he has been designed with perhaps society’s largest group of technophobes in mind; the… 20/03/2013
Painting for change Scientists in the UK have been developing specially ‘conductive’ paints to be printed onto building materials, where they can then generate their own… 18/03/2013
CeBIT innovations New ways of interacting with computers have proliferated in recent years with technology like touch screens, motion-sensing and eye-tracking. Swedish company… 13/03/2013
CeBIT: Sharing makes sense at Cebit CeBIT, in Hanover, Germany, is the the world’s top computer and IT fair. This year around 4,000 exhibitors from 70 different countries got behind the main… 12/03/2013
Flood alert Dams that protect urban areas from flooding sometimes fail, resulting in catastrophic damage. But what can be done to prevent such disasters? Robert Meijer… 11/03/2013
CeBit dumbs down to draw in the crowds The world’s top computer and IT fair is underway in Hanover Germany – but this year the CeBIT, as it’s known decided to dumb down by being more consumer… 07/03/2013
Smart moves at the Mobile World Congress This year more than 70,000 people flocked to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, reflecting the growing global demand for mobile phones worldwide – 720… 05/03/2013
CEBIT conference opens in Hanover The German Chancellor and Polish Prime Minister have opened the world’s largest hi-tech trade fair in Hanover. The trade show in the northern German city will… 05/03/2013
New hope for AMD sufferers Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) affects more than 300,000 people in the EU and is the leading cause of loss of eyesight in people over the age of 50… 04/03/2013
A helping hand Gradually losing control of your body is something that patients with neurodegenerative diseases must learn to live with. Lorenzo Rossi, an amyotrophic… 04/03/2013
Battle of the operating systems at Mobile World Congress The mobile ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed, with mobile technology producing endless innovations and new applications. The Barcelona Mobile World… 28/02/2013
Imagina in Monaco Imagina is an annual technology show held in Monaco. This year it was entirely devoted to new dental technology like 3D and laser. These kinds of developments… 26/02/2013
Handy Robots The human hand, a masterpiece of evolution, has for a long time been impossible to recreate artificially. Its complex mechanics and high sensitivity have… 25/02/2013
The tablet-controlled driverless car For years, researchers around the world have toiled to turn driverless cars from science-fiction to reality. Now a team of Oxford University scientists has… 20/02/2013
Goal-line technology to make World Cup debut Following rigorous testing and a successful trial period goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup after it was given the green light by world… 19/02/2013
Robots at work Manual packaging is tedious work – can robots alleviate the boredom? Engineers at the Technical University Munich are testing a talking workstation that… 18/02/2013
Apple considering its cash pile, probably developing a watch Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook has said it is carefully considering calls for the company to return more cash to investors; it is currently sitting on over… 13/02/2013
Printed prosthetics Traditionally, amputees have been offered one-size-fits-all prosthetics – functional but not particularly attractive. Now technology is blurring the line… 13/02/2013
Meet Rex – the world’s first real bionic man A bionic man complete with artificial organs, synthetic blood and robotic limbs has gone on display at the Science Museum in London. Costing some 600,000… 12/02/2013
Apps, tablets and the internet invade toyland The 110th annual American International Toy Fair is one of the largest toy and youth product marketplaces in the world, bringing together more than 1,000… 12/02/2013
Elderly care: always aware Researchers repeatedly throw themselves to the floor to simulate how a human falls. It is part of an international effort to help senior citizens. Linda… 04/02/2013
Make or break for Blackberry Gambling on survival, Research In Motion has launched its much-delayed new Blackberry 10 mobiles. The Canadian company once had a huge following among… 30/01/2013
Philips quits home entertainment Philips Chief Executive Frans van Houten is continuing his efforts to focus on its more profitable home appliances and healthcare operations. As consumers… 29/01/2013
New technology for old houses Traditional wooden farmhouses like those in Appensell, are iconically Swiss, but every year around 30 of them are demolished because it is so difficult to… 24/01/2013
Santander gets smart Santander, in the north of Spain, is looking to the future and is styling itself as a “Smartcity”. Some 12,000 sensors are installed on facades, lamp posts… 22/01/2013
Atari files for bankruptcy protection Wrestling with tough market conditions, video game pioneer Atari SA has filed for bankruptcy protection in Paris and New York. That is because it has failed… 22/01/2013
Hi-tech art restoration “The Statue of Hope” at the English Cemetery in Florence is having a 3D scan to analyse the stone prior to having a high-tech clean. The laser reveals every… 21/01/2013
Google denies donkey hit-and-runGoogle has denied killing a donkey on a road in Botswana after some people accused one of its cars of a hit-and-run while taking pictures for its Street View… 17/01/2013
CES wrapped up in computers This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas saw more than 20,000 new products introduced to a market which is already crammed with gagets and novelties… 15/01/2013
Big TVs are king at 46th CES Las Vegas’s 46th annual International Consumer Electronics Show is showcasing the technology trends of the near and distant future. Thousands of exhibitors… 10/01/2013
Newest gadgets displayed More than 2,000 exhibitors went to Hong Kong this year for the annual Toys and Games Fair and, of course, as well as revealing traditional toys, many people… 09/01/2013
How wallpaper could save earthquake victims Several hundred people were killed in the 2011 earthquake in Van in Turkey and tens of thousands were left homeless after their houses were destroyed. As… 08/01/2013
Swiss scientists bend Caustic Effect to their will At first glance it doesn’t sound very exciting but a sheet of plexiglass is making waves at Lausanne’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Switzerland. When a… 07/01/2013
Careful what you click on! One year after a plan to reform European data protection laws was unveiled, it is still the focus of intense debate. It seems reaching an agreement will not… 07/01/2013
Privacy versus new information technologyThe information technology sector is rapidly changing, with smartphones becoming even smarter and location tracking becoming the norm. Officials are… 07/01/2013
A machine which can read your mind “We have developed so called brain-computer interfaces which allow the user to control different devices and programmes without hands, by means of the user’s… 20/12/2012
The eyes have it: text to a contact lens It sounds like science fiction but researchers in Belgium are working on contact lenses on which it is possible to project words and pictures, and maybe even… 19/12/2012
Make your own mini-me Do you fancy something a little bit more original than a family photo? Well, thanks to a 3D printer on display in Japan, you can have a mini-me or even a… 17/12/2012
The Internet of Things LeWeb is one of the major annual dates in the Web industry, attracting around 3,500 professionals, investors, bloggers and internet fans. The theme this year… 11/12/2012
LeWeb 12: where the physical and virtual merge The 9th edition of the conference LeWeb in the French capital Paris. It is one of the major events in the Web industry, bringing together around 3.500… 10/12/2012
Bags of water A waterbag is a flexible container system for freshwater transport. Engineer Samuele Ambrosetti explained: “You can see here a water bag made from supple… 06/12/2012
Follow the Innovation Road The latest environmental technologies came under the spotlight at the Pollutec exhibition in France. A special section called Innovation Road was devoted to… 04/12/2012
Pollutec, shopwindow for a cleaner world At the recent Pollutec exhibition in Lyon well over 2,000 individuals and companies from all over the world showed off the latest technology for a cleaner… 03/12/2012
Small aircraft, smart safety Welcome onboard an aircraft unlike any other. It’s been designed to increase safety on small planes and the stakes are high. At one incident every 10,000… 28/11/2012
From idea to prototype Some 20 kilometres from Skopje in the Macedonian countryside lies Hi-Tech, a company which specialises in manufacturing circuit boards, the electric hearts of… 27/11/2012
Safe to fly A fresh way of analysing security information is being developed with the help of Heathrow Airport. Known as TASS – it brings together different sources of… 22/11/2012
‘Flipped’ classrooms improve learning What if the traditional ways of using classroom teaching and homework were swapped around? Where children learn the basics of a subject at home allowing… 16/11/2012
Automapper gets there first Fast access to disaster areas is vital. But often first responders, firefighters and medical teams have difficulty getting into damaged buildings and in… 15/11/2012
Intelligent tyres Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli has launched a new product – Cyber Fleet is an intelligent tyre designed for lorries that uses an electronic sensor to… 14/11/2012
The computer printer at the heart of the matter Scientists are taking the idea of 3D computer printing and catapulting it into the realms of something more suited to science fiction. The idea of printing… 13/11/2012
A tyre revolution A new generation of car tyres is being made with a list of intriguing ingredients. Peter Snel, group head of R&D at Dutch tyre specialist Apollo Tyres… 07/11/2012
Robots under the skin A team of scientists in Italy have been working on a unique robotic surgery system. They hope that one day robots could take over the work of surgeons in… 01/11/2012
The serious business of Serious Games Serious Games use computer technology for teaching and training purposes in a variety of fields. Developers claim they are revolutionaly tools to help people… 30/10/2012
Stable and safe an electric motorbike with car comforts A research team from San Francisco has designed a prototype for a gyro-stabilised electric motorcycle. Lit Motors, have blended design elements from a car and… 29/10/2012
Plug-in savings Cutting energy consumption in data centres is a key priority in the IT world. The towering ranks of servers are the backbone of our digital lives, and they… 25/10/2012
New future at fingertips for amputees British engineers are launching a bionic hand they claim is as sophisticated as many prototypes, but cheap enough to meet the needs of a mass market. The… 25/10/2012
Turning e-skills into jobs Imagine being able to work from just about anywhere… Welcome to Sofia, a city where wifi is free and accessible in many public places across town… 24/10/2012
No more problems with parking This car can steer, park for you and even brake in case of an emergency. A prototype automatic driving system fitted into the electric vehicle detects… 22/10/2012
X-ray expertise A Danish company has developed a series of machines that can quite literally see the unseen. Joergen Rheinlaender, the Director at InnospeXion explains: “We… 11/10/2012
A future for happy feet? We have our feet to thank for walking, standing, running and so many other activities. They take the weight of the entire body day in, day out, so they are… 09/10/2012
Innovation at the forefront at Paris Motor Show The car industry is always open to the advancement of technology. Not only because the car remains one of the most popular and necessary products in the… 02/10/2012
Water proofing for electronic equipment We all know it’s a bad idea to get your phone wet but it’s surprising how often it happens. Water damage remains one of the main enemies of mobile phones… 01/10/2012
Zoom on cameras at Photokina Photokina is the world’s largest trade fair for the photographic industry. Held every two years in Cologne, it is a chance for manufacturers to launch their… 19/09/2012
Apple V Samsung Smartphone and tablet giants Apple and Samsung are battling it out in the showroom and the courtroom, with dozens of legal cases being heard all around the… 18/09/2012
Digitising the past Although millions of books are scanned and put online every year, making old documents and texts available on the web is a difficult and painstaking… 11/09/2012
From micro smartphone projectors to paper speakers Brighter, smarter and thinner; that’s how scientists in Germany describe the new type of projector they have developed. Based at the Fraunhofer Institute in… 10/09/2012
Plug your energy leaks Like water from a faulty tap, power leaks from all electronic devices – whether in use or not. The fact is a portion of our energy bill goes down the drain… 05/09/2012
IFA Berlin: Eye-controlled TV and more The IFA in Berlin is one of Europe’s top electronic show, and offers us an idea of what we can expect to see in our living rooms in the future. Among the… 05/09/2012
Television tunes in to the future IFA, the world‘s leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances opened in Berlin. Up to 1500 exhibitors and 240,000 visitors tuned in to see… 04/09/2012
Cool baking technology Jörg Schulz is a baker in Germany who has found a cool money-saving new way of baking his bread. “The NanoBak Technology, which we developed, is a new… 30/08/2012
Smart chair: powered by thought It sounds like something from science fiction, being able to control a device through thought alone. However, a prototype wheelchair manoeuvred by human… 29/08/2012
