New car interiors are laced with speakers and microphones to support increasingly complex audio systems and voice recognition features. Now Harman wants to put this hardware on the outside of cars as ...

Sensors that monitor infrastructure, such as bridges or buildings, or are used in medical devices, such as prostheses for the deaf, require a constant supply of power. The energy for this usually ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new type of sonar to overcome the previously insurmountable problem of seeing underwater from the air. Sound does not travel easily between air and ...

ATLANTA — Only Channel 2 Action News has learned that Atlanta Police started using new technology that can detect the sound of gunshots to help police fight crime and keep you safe. ShotSpotter uses ...

In the near future, the Dutch police might be able to stop crimes before they even happen. But unlike in the movie Minority Report, they don’t need three mutated psychic humans floating around in a ...

April 19, 2005 — -- Annoyed by cell phone users who believe they need to yell into their mobiles in order to be heard? Such loud and obnoxious talkers may become extinct, thanks in part to the ...

Just think how eerie it would be, yet also how peaceful – people all around having conversations on their mobile phones, but without uttering a sound. Thanks to some military research, this social ...