Along with personal jetpacks for every man, woman, and child (sure, why not), levitation is one of those conveniences that sci-fi has long promised us but has yet to deliver, other than magnetically ...

The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent objects in a VR world. Until we figure out the technology behind Star Trek’s Holodecks ...

The key to a sense of touch in VR might be sound, ironically – a team working out of the University of Bristol in the UK (via New Scientist) have worked out an improved version of haptic tech that can ...

“Resonating Objects,” an exhibition of sound combined with sculpture and video, doesn’t fit into a neat category of art. But it’s not difficult to describe. “It’s fun,” said Nathan Barnes, coordinator ...

The Internet of Things gets a bit of personality via Hello Lamp Post, a project that promotes conversations between people and, well, lampposts. Austerlitz, a 2001 novel by the German writer W.G.

After analyzing almost two-thirds of all the languages in the world, researchers are saying that people have a tendency to use the same sounds to refer to common objects and ideas regardless of the ...