The Town of Portola Valley and the design team developed a new master plan through an open and participatory process, a series of public workshops that focused on the Town Center program, site opportunities and constraints, and sustainable design goals on this 11-acre parcel. A new Library, Town Hall, and Community Hall frame a new… »

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies new Mirasol display is the first full color, video-capable display on a prototype e-reader, built on the concept of the iridescence of butterfly’s wings. The inspiration for Mirasol’s engineering came from nature’s most vividly colored creatures: the cerulean wing of a butterfly, the ruby throat of a hummingbird, and the rainbow flash… »

Christie recently launched MicroTiles, a unique digital display technology that creates a virtually seamless digital canvas in almost any size or shape. Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls, while using an entirely new, advanced optical design that produces unparalleled levels of… »

It is estimated that there are between 15,000 and 20,000 annual casualties caused by landmines and unexploded explosive devices, according to the charity Handicap International. Some 87 countries contain minefields including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Mozambique, Cambodia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, and yet accurate test to find undetected landmines. Students… »

At SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain’s low power and energy consumption and compact size. The cognitive computing team, led by IBM Research, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence… »

Japan-based Mobile Art Lab has been developing many features for smartphones. Their work is to plan and create visual methods of producing content that is “more valuable and interesting to watch on mobile phones”. In their previous development, they managed to pair phones in order to make them show media whilst using both displays, and… »

Built to LEED Gold standards and likely to achieve a Platinum rating, 41 Cooper Square will be the first LEED-certified academic laboratory building in New York City. Designed by Morphosis Architects, the new academic building aspires to manifest the character, culture and vibrancy of both the 150 year-old The Cooper Union institution and of the… »

Professor Hirotaka Nakayama and his students at Kobe’s Konan University Faculty of Intelligence and Informatics have created a guide robot called ii-1. It is able to perform Q&A tasks by using natural language for communication and querying an internet database to find the answers to asked questions.  The project began in 2008 when four of… »