Over the last century, almost every medical breakthrough has been based on animal research. But mice may soon get a break from the lab. Researchers from the Human Brain Project have taken the first ...

The idea of everyone having a virtual assistant sounds a bit pompous. After all, an "assistant" has traditionally been a luxury reserved for the elite. Yet, many companies are working on bringing ...

The Allen Brain Explorer can display a virtual mouse brain in 3-D. (Allen Institute for Brain Science) The Allen Institute for Brain Science has added about 900 virtual mouse brain cells to its Allen ...

Most computer mice are made of plastic, glass or metal. But one vendor has done away with those materials, and created a virtual mouse beamed from a laser projector. ODiN is the world’s first laser ...

Looking for something to build that will be challenging and interesting to laypersons at the same time? Take some inspiration from this maze-solving robot mouse. It take the idea of a line-following ...

Linux phones are basically just small, low-power Linux computers with touchscreens, and modems. While most mobile Linux distributions designed for phones feature touch-friendly user interfaces and ...

The way in which humans interact with computers has been dominated by the mouse since it was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbert. A mouse uses a flat two-dimensional surface as a proxy for a ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. The Prestigio Click&Touch keyboard from Clevetura is a clever and somewhat unusual piece of kit.

US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer. The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L ...