30 years ago, Sony sparked off a revolution in portable music with the launch of the Walkman. Never before had music lovers been conveniently able to carry around their favorite tunes with them and since then the portable music market has been booming – reinventing itself. We aren’t complaining. The original blue-and-silver Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan, the Soundabout... 

The BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center has developed a system, which utilizes brain waves to control a wheelchair in as little as 125 milliseconds. Such systems allow elderly or handicapped people to interact with the world through signals from their brains, without having to give voice commands. BTCC’s new system fuses RIKEN’s blind signal separation and space-time-frequency filtering technology... 

Advertising on mobile phones should really take off within two to three years, driven by new applications on smart phones and the growing popularity of social networks such as Facebook. Executives, who attended last week’s Cannes Lions 2009 ad festival, told Reuters that emerging economies were also promising though the lack of a global mobile phone standard could be a brake to speedy development. As...