Not Your Run-Of-The-Mill Diploma There are a number of schools that advertise the possibility of getting a college degree based upon life experience. You send in your resume and they send you a degree-nothing to...

In 2006, the EU-funded ElderGames project began creating a hi-tech computerized play platform designed for the elderly. The primary purpose of the project was to provide social and cognitive stimulus for older people as well as...

Classrooms are going to start looking like something out of a sci-fi movie thanks to the experts at Durham University who have developed the first interactive classroom. A team from the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research...

A team consisting of researchers from many countries has invented a virtual reality location where students can practice foreign language skills. Mexican engineering students got to test out the environment up front and personal as they...

Coveted Gadget If you're the kind of person who loves owning the latest in computer hardware, you'll be writing to Santa soon to bring you some PC 3-D gaming glasses. These spectacles are something to covet....

You've heard about PC 3-D gaming glasses and you understand that they add depth perception to the gaming experience so that graphics come alive. That seems pretty amazing to you, considering those graphics come to you...

Remember when seeing something in 3-D meant gazing through flimsy red and blue cellophane lenses? Everyone thought those glasses were the coolest thing since ice cream. Well, technology has surpassed those cardboard framed miracles...

Late in the year of 1999, Agilent Technologies introduced a new type of computer mouse to the world. Known as an optical mouse, this computer mouse contains a teensy camera which takes thousands of photos per...