Most of us are familiar with haptics on touch-screen phones. The feedback technology uses vibrating pulses to replace the tactility of, for example, pressing a physical button. At the recent computer ...

Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to ...

Every year at Adobe Max, Adobe shows off what it calls “Sneaks,” R&D projects that might — or might not — find their way into commercial products someday. This year is no exception, and lucky for us, ...

Click to open image viewer. HP9100 A Prototype Electronic Calculator, Front Angle View This transistorized electronic calculator is the prototype for the first electronic calculator sold by ...

At the ongoing annual Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle, Valve seems to have a heavy focus on virtual reality, with the announcements made on the technology including the unveiling of prototypes ...

Abstract: Design has been called one of the defining characteristics of engineering, and it has been long-argued that design is equally social and technical in practice. The field of Science and ...