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Brain imaging technologies have developed hugely in the last decade, and can now offer unprecedented insight into the relationship between brain activity, thoughts and behaviour.…
Posted by Eleanor Beal in Sci-tech | April 9, 2010 10:06AM | 4 Comments »
For the last couple of years, Microsoft have struggled with mobile phones. Along with Palm, the company was one of the early pioneers of the…
Posted by Phil Rich in Sci-tech | February 18, 2010 11:46AM | 4 Comments »
The last few decades of genetics research have unpicked the human genome, pinning down many of the ways we are shaped by our DNA. In…
Posted by Eleanor Beal in Sci-tech | February 16, 2010 11:57AM | 5 Comments »
Alongside the 3D televisions, tablet PCs and ebook readers that dominated this year’s consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, the biggest news to come out…
Posted by Phil Rich in Sci-tech | January 29, 2010 5:16PM | 3 Comments »
It’s Wednesday 27th January, or Year Zero for some – today we finally get to see what Apple’s tablet device is. Variously able to save…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | January 27, 2010 11:55AM | 3 Comments »
In a recent YouTube video-review for Samsung’s Android-toting i7500 Galaxy phone there’s a moment that is as portentous as it is jaw-dropping: a Dutch reviewer…
Posted by Phil Rich in Sci-tech | December 7, 2009 1:40PM | 10 Comments »
In September, having an invite to Wave, Google’s latest milestone product, made you the coolest kid in school (at least among the nerds hanging…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 4, 2009 1:28PM | 9 Comments »
Samsung has announced it’s getting into the app development market, with its “bada” software platform and developers toolkit. We saw Paypal…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 10, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
Paypal is stepping its game up this week by announcing its plans to go into the third-party application market. They’re not just developing some keeping-up-with-the-Joneses…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 3, 2009 12:02PM | 2 Comments »
I hope you’ve prepared the tabbouleh and gathered your demographically diverse gang of buddies around the breakfast bar, because it’s WINDOWS 7 PARTAY TIME. Yes,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | October 22, 2009 12:03PM | No Comments »
Following Hot Money, Tomorrow People and Creative Economy in the roll call of fabulous sections of the new Bad Idea site, coming in a couple…
Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Sci-tech | October 15, 2009 10:21AM | No Comments »
The Netflix prize, whose winner was announced yesterday, was either an innovative method of crowdsourcing previously specialised and disparate skills, or a way…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | September 22, 2009 12:39PM | 2 Comments »
