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Article | 21/05/2010 Wacky and Wonderful Pet Tech

Handheld translators for barks and meows. Laser tag for cats. Who would have imagined that so many brilliant and bizarre tech gadgets are available fo...

Article | 15/04/2010 Intel sensor records all home power use from one outlet

Intel showed off a pocket-sized device that monitors power usage by gadgets and appliances across a house, from toasters to computer monitors and vide...

Article | 17/03/2010 Lights out on incandescent bulb production at Toshiba

Toshiba ended production of mass-market incandescent light bulbs on Wednesday, putting to a close a 120-year manufacturing history of the products.

Article | 9/03/2010 The car-puccino: A car that runs on coffee

No beans about it: An automobile dubbed the "Car-puccino" has been designed to run only on leftover coffee grinds. The heavily-modified 1988 Volkswag...

Article | 5/01/2010 IBM to show smart home devices

IBM is pushing for intelligent homes as Internet-connected household devices get access to more online content and services, company officials said on...

Article | 5/09/2009 Prototype uses gestures to control appliances

Thumbs up, lights on. Thumbs down, lights off. That's all a user would need to do with the GestureID project from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for D...

Article | 6/08/2009 Twitter: household appliances get vocal

Household appliances are getting vocal on Twitter due to geeky DIY hardware experiments.