It could take a decade before virtual reality headsets become cheap and portable enough to replace smartphones as the tech industry’s dominant computing platform, the founder of Oculus VR has warned.Virtual reality is tipped to be one of the biggest themes of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, with Sony, HTC and Facebook-owned Oculus all set to release their headsets in the first half of...

A new patent awarded to Google today hints at a future where we can vote on anything right from our computers. Google’s patent is for a voting system built into its website that would allow users to find who is running for something, and vote for it without leaving Google.com.In the patent, Google uses the example of a fictional talent show,”Top American Singer,” which has amazingly named co...

With its box office run about over, the film probably won't break the all-time record.It appears the force is no longer strong at the box office. As it approaches the end of its remarkable run in theaters, ticket sales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens are fading fast. If past blockbuster patterns are any guide, the film will fall well short of the all-time box office leaders, including Titanic...

Overwhelmingly, young adults would rather be healthy (73%) than wealthy (27%), but their distrust of big institutions and burgeoning Health Hacker mentality is inspiring them to seek alternatives to mainstream healthcare. Lately, companies working to prevent aging and the age-related diseases that come with it have been capturing their attention, as they hunt for tech-driven solutions to improv...

Rapid Sterilization of Cell Phones Using a Novel Portable Non-Thermal Plasma Device.Plasmas are typically hot, often generated by heating gasses to the point that molecular bonds break and ions in large quantities are created. While plasmas can be used to sterilize objects, the heat can destroy the very objects being cleaned. There are cold plasmas though, and researchers at Weill Cornell Medic...

MiniBrew is the world’s first all in one, small batch beer brewing machine. Without the faintest knowledge of brewing, this table-top fully-automated brewing system includes everything you need to make 5-liters of beer in just a week.Making beer at home can be fun, but it’s also a fairly complex process that takes time and know how. But these days there are enough sensors and tiny processors...

The global economy and geopolitical tensions are two of the key factors weighing on the minds of chief executives, according to a global CEO survey launched at Davos last week. Despite the fact that we are now eight years on from the financial crisis, business leaders are proving to be increasingly concerned about the global economy.Less than a third (27%) of the CEOs in the survey, which was c...

At New York’s Toy Fair trade show over the weekend, Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home. The device works in conjunction with a 3D printing app developed in collaboration with Autodesk that offers a simple interface for designing items that can then come to life via Mattel’s ThingMaker as well as with other st...

Cognitive and social context was the launchpad for these algorithmically alcoholic beverages.Using sophisticated data science, IBM and Havas helia created a beer that tastes of joy and optimism. How you may ask? They used a tool called Watson Personality Insights, which analyzes language to produce a personality profile. The technology uses linguistic analysis to find meaning words. In linguist...