Made in USA: American tech inventions
Blueprint for the Intel 4004 - widely considered to be the first microprocessor.
/ Intel(CBS News) Happy birthday, America! To honor the independent spirit that gave birth to this nation, we are highlighting some of the inventions that have contributed to modern computer technology.
Ever wonder when the QWERY keyboard layout was introduced? It's hard to believe that an invention by two Milwaukee, Wis. men in 1868 influences the way we type our words today.
Photos: The evolution of telephones
Internet gets Hall of Fame, Al Gore honored
3D motion-control transforms the home computer
(CBS News) Move over Microsoft Kinect and touch-screen displays. Controlling your computer may soon be done without touching a keyboard, mouse or touch screen - thanks to a little device called the Leap.
Leap Motion, a San Francisco-based motion-control software and hardware company, unveiled a new way to control computers.
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Harvard, MIT to offer free online classes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University enter a joint partnership called edX, to provide free classes online.
/ CBS/Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(CBS News) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are teaming up to bring education to anyone who has an Internet connection.
The prestigeous universities will launch a $60 million initiative called edX that will offer course material from Harvard and MIT. Courses will consist of "video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories and student-paced learning."
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Happy 50th to computer game Spacewar
Dan Edwards (left) and Peter Samson playing Spacewar on the PDP-1 display. Edwards and Samson made significant contributions to the video game before it was released in 1962.
/ Computer History MuseumBy CNET senior writer Martin LaMonica
(CNET) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its typically geeky fashion, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology celebrated the birth of one of the first video games by challenging students to re-create it on a computer the size of a business card.
MIT engineering students and faculty this week showed off a simulation of Spacewar on campus and at the MIT Museum to mark the 50th anniversary of the video game's release. Written by four students in their spare time, the video game influenced how many later games were designed and was part of a broader shift in how people viewed computers.
Spacewar, created on Digital Equipment's PDP-1 minicomputer, was instrumental in showcasing the graphical capabilities of computers and new modes of user-computer interaction. It also helped showed people that computers could be used for fun, not only serious work.
MIT gained access to a PDP-1, a refrigerator-size "minicomputer," in the early 1960s and gave students regular access to it in MIT's Kludge computer room. That arrangement of letting programmers tinker with the computer during the machine's downtime helped seed the hacker culture that later flourished, according to the Computer History Museum.
Tech fashionista? What your iPhone, iPad says about your style
Diane von Furstenberg
Should phones be gender-neutral?
PICTURES: The most expensive iPhone cases
If you are a techy fashionista who wants to make a bolder statement, there's a new Spring collection of cases for iPhones, iPads and eReaders that are taking cues from Alexander McQueen, Prada, Givenchy, according to Griffin Technology.
We've even highlighted designers like Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Kors and Kate Spade. So, can non-designers live up to these fashion icons?
Comscore: Android up, Blackberry down
Google
(CBS) - According to the latest numbers from Internet marketing firm Comscore, Android continued to grow as the most popular mobile platform in the U.S.
Continue »2011 year in review: technology
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Remember how you felt when the iPad 2 was released in March? How about the frustration you felt when Egypt shut down the Internet to deter protesters? Many of us will never forget the emotions that stirred upon learning of Steve Jobs' death.
Full coverage - 2011: Year in Review
PICTURES: 2011 Year in Review: Technology
It was a passionate and emotional year for technology. We kicked off 2011 witnessing social media used as an essential tool in the organizing and documenting of the Arab Spring.
Bionic contact lens could project floating emails
Steve Jurvetson/Flickr
The technology works by embedding a custom-made sapphire LED and circular antenna into a plastic contact lens. In the test, a single pixel was controlled by a remote radio frequency transmitting data from the lens.
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How to make your iPhone into a huggable toy
50% fuzzy friend, 50% protective case
/ griffintechnology.com(CBS) - Let's face it. Kids love iPhones - especially toddlers.
Something about a little screen that does stuff when you touch it makes a baby so happy...they drop it in a fit of joy and shatter it into pieces.
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Putting iPhone 4S' Siri to the test
(CBS) - Voice recognition technology has been around for years, but many are hoping Apple's Siri will be even more sophisticated than its predecessors. In the video above, Jason Snell, MacWorld editorial director, put the feature, which is available on the iPhone 4S, to the test.
Hands-on look at iPhone's new voice assistant
At first, Snell demonstrates what the iPhone 4 can do, such as provide weather updates and play songs from your music library. "What's the weather like today?" Snell asked Siri. "What's the weather like in Chicago?"
Then, the he told Siri he wants to have lunch. Siri suggested eateries nearby. After that, Snell asked Siri to be more specific. He wanted to see suggestions for places downtown. "How about downtown?" he asked. Siri didn't quite understand. "I want to have lunch downtown," Snell followed. Siri still didn't quite get it, but Snell pointed out that it once worked for him.
Robots climb stairs, fly and fight like Jedis
(CBS) - Even though they kind of creep us out sometimes, we love robots. Got a robot-related video to share? We want to see it.
Robotics researchers from around the world gathered in San Francisco to share their work at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das had the chance to get a little friendly with the cool droids.
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$560,000 iPod dock requires a ladder
(CBS) - Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the mother of all iPods, iPhones, and iPads dock. This is the AeroDream One from Jarre Technologies.
It's an 11-foot-tall, chrome-slathered, 10,000-watt iPod dock that requires a ladder just to get your device up to the top. It weighs more than 870 pounds. It also costs a wallet-shattering $560,000.
Continue »Google tests world's fastest broadband service
(CBS) - Google has changed the way people search on the internet. Now it's changing the way some people surf the web.
Hundreds of lucky residents in the San Fransisco Bay area are now accessing Google's one-gigabyte broadband service, which is being touted as the fastest internet connection in the world.
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Doodle on your Facebook with UbiSketch
(CBS) - We're all guilty of it... Whether you're in class or a meeting, you doodle to pass time. Never do you ever share your doodles with your social networks. Who's going to take the time to scan silly drawings if only to give friends a good laugh?
But we bet if the process was more simple than that, you would showcase your cool doodles to followers. That's where UbiSketch comes in. The digital pen lets you upload your drawings to Twitter, Facebook, even your email.
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Bridesmaid virtually attends wedding via iPad
(CBS) - Would you ever virtually attend a wedding - let alone be a digital bridesmaid?
That's what Renee did at her best friends marriage ceremony in Colorado. She was asked to be a bridesmaid, but was unable to make the trip.
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