The first patents appeared in fifteen-century Venice, as royal decries granting inventors the protection of the Republic, but the concept of intellectual property dates back much further than that to...
As a $340 billion company, Microsoft naturally has its activities spread out over a great many areas, the least advertised of which is probably robotics. Its vast developer division includes a...
The irony is hard to miss. On the very same day that Variety broke the news Samsung has killed off a secretive internal program to develop a new kind of remote meant to change the way you interact...
Though it may be the hardest, designing a product is only the first step towards getting to market. No less important is the manufacturing process, which dictates how fast and how economically a...
Like other web giants, Google constantly experiments with new technologies to hedge its chances of stumbling across the next big thing. But one ambitious pet project has apparently turned into...
The Internet of Things has emerged as a fertile creative breeding ground for manufacturers, but it’s up to you to decide whether that turned out for the better or the worse in this particular case....
Stealth startups are by definition secretive about their work, but it’s difficult to keep secrets when you have to file patents. And so it came to be that nine months after its registration, a very...
If not being able to use the touchscreen while talking over the phone seems like an inconvenience, Sony may soon have just the model for you. The design revealed in one of its most recent patent...
We’re now officially in the midst of a small-scale GPS renaissance. Hot on the heels of another technology giant filing to patent a smart wristband navigator that can peer around corners,...
HP isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think about security software, but it’s actually pretty high up the list in the data center. That’s the product of a very simple...
