Lost on a New Hampshire back road? I can help. Keep heading downhill and try to find and follow a river. Before long you will come to a town where you can either ask directions to Tennessee or consult your maps. Lost in Cubicle City? You're on your own. Or maybe the SWAN could guide you.More>>

Considering how much time we spend in our cars, it's a good thing the safety of these vehicles is increasing all the time. Or is it? A recent article posted on Consumeraffairs.com found that as our cars get safer, we drive more aggressively, offsetting the positive effect.More>>

A survey of more than 700 IEEE Fellows, done by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in conjunction with the Institute for the Future, sought to learn what science and technology developments are most likely within the next 10 to 50 years. The extensive results include the...More>>

The news is full of stories telling of instances where sensors have made it possible to better understand our physical world, from earthquakes and tsunamis to volcanic activity and undersea seismic disruptions. For some time now, they have also helped us understand disruptive conditions inside our...More>>

Like the rain, which falleth upon the just and unjust, technology is basically neutral. (There are some obvious exceptions, but their number is small, we all know what they are, and I'm not going to talk about them today.) What I am going to talk about is how quickly neutrality erodes when someone...More>>

So, bright and early (local time) on Monday, an underground nuclear test was (allegedly) performed in North Korea. I'm not going to talk about the politics, rightness, wrongness, or even wrong-headedness of this. What I am going to talk about is the data collected, and what interested laypeople did...More>>

Football is a dangerous sport. But a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor illustrates that sensor-enhanced equipment is making the game safer. New technologies aimed at making the sport safer for athletes are examples of how high-tech devices may spread throughout the game in coming...More>>

Described in abstract terms in a report last month, the vehicle for enhanced connectivity takes on tangible form in a disaster-victim tracking system demonstrated in Belgium. This advanced implementation shows how cutting-edge technologies will increasingly come together in the future.More>>

The World Depends on Sensors and Controls. That's the tagline of the firm that calls itself the newest 90-year old company in America. That company, Sensata, was born this year from the legacy of Texas Instruments-and it plans to have a big impact on industrial sensing and control.More>>

The reliability of wireless systems has long been the Achilles' heel of the technology. Perhaps one of the first steps toward allaying the fears of users is to come up with litmus test to gauge the system?s vitality.More>>