Ranked by Forbes as the most innovative company in the world, Tesla Motors is certainly not a company afraid to push technological boundaries. So when the company's enigmatic CEO, Elon Musk, announced via Twitter the imminent unveiling of an 'unexpected product', rumours and predictions were abound. While the reveal was due to land today, Musk tweeted a few hours ago that it would be delayed un...

Sony is changing. The troubled Japanese electronics maker is trying new things as it navigates an inhospitable market dominated by the likes of Apple and Samsung.It has reduced its smartphone business and focused on the PlayStation, which gets a major boost this fall with the release of the PlayStation VR. The turnaround plan seems to be working as it posted a 666.5 percent rise in pretax profi...

Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber made from hydrogel — an elastic, rubbery material composed mostly of water. The fiber, which is as bendable as a rope of licorice, may one day be implanted in the body to deliver therapeutic pulses...

Securities firm Piper Jaffray (the company that employs analyst Gene Munster) surveys teenagers twice a year for its Taking Stock with Teens series. The survey allows Piper's clients to learn the latest teen trends, where they are spending money and how they feel about certain products and specific brands. For the latest survey, the firm obtained information from 10,000 teens, up from the 6,500...

As convenient as they are, pod-style coffee makers mean that coffee connoisseurs sacrifice a certain level of control over their brew. Until now! The Kallpa system features smart capsules that, when inserted into the machine, give the user nutritional information, preparation recommendations, and capsule combinations for a completely customized cup of coffee.The capsules include printed QR code...

Dartmouth-Led Team Develops WristWhirl, A Smartwatch Prototype Using Wrist As A Joystick.Checking email, tracking fitness, and listening to music, are just a few things that a smartwatch can do but what if your hands aren't free (i.e. carrying groceries or holding a bus handle)? A Dartmouth-led team has come up with a solution by developing WristWhirl— a smartwatch prototype that uses the wris...

Just as the arrival of the connected car is already changing how carmakers will operate in the future, the advent of the digital truck will completely transform how freight is transported on the world’s highways. Thanks to a combination of new technologies, trucks will move down the road guided by a wealth of information from transportation infrastructure and other vehicles, improving utilizat...

The idea of self-driving cars cruising our roads may not be a new idea, but a plan to release autonomous boats into the canals of Amsterdam would be the first of its kind. The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the first research program into the new technology. Called “roboats,” the autono...

Venture capital investments plummeted 36 percent in the third quarter to $10.6 billion, compared to $16.7 billion a year ago, according to the MoneyTree Report from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The number of deals was 891 in the quarter, down 25 percent from 1,189 deals in the third quarter a year earlier.The deals were also down 32 percent from $15.6 billion in the second quarter, a...