Bringing Senses Into Play
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Walking past a crack in a wall in the computer game Broken Sword, players feel a draft of air in the real world. When a virtual plane flies by on the screen, a strategically timed breeze -- generated by a set of fans parked next to the monitor -- tries to make gamers feel as if they're standing next...
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Researchers create digital paper that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.
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How do you cap an evening of pure magic? With more magic. Perhaps a quick coup de theatre.
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation
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When scientists studied babies&#39; hearing they found the left ear was more attuned to music and the right better at picking up speech-like sounds.
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"How Can I Talk if My Lips Don't Move?" discusses Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay's astonishingly rich sensory world, a place ripe with transformations and synesthesia.
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First impressions: Favorite games benefit from high-definition display.
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Using modified voice-recognition software, researchers from several universities and Disney's Animal Kingdom are trying to learn how to "talk" like animals.
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Researchers have found a way to induce  out-of-body experiences using virtual-reality goggles, helping  to explain a phenomenon reported by about one in 10 people.
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Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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The therapeutic power of flowers takes on new meaning with a Japanese gadget that turns plants into audio speakers.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium.
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NEW YORK  - A new approach that permits   wider visual perception in patients with severely restricted   peripheral field allows quicker and more accurate ability to   detect objects outside their field of vision, suggest results   of a pilot study.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.