‘I rose above the clouds to see … Michael Fassbender floating in front of me. And Melissa McCarthy leisurely gliding past on my right’
To some, virtual reality may seem like no more than a gimmick, but after a trip to the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival’s Virtual Reality Studio this summer, it’s clear that…
Games technology used to redesign ‘ineffective’ smoke alarms
Research project using wireless speakers and app for large-scale test later this yearVideo game developers are helping to design a new smoke detector after studies showed that domestic alarms do…
The future of the internet might lie in a hut in Troon with a software company whose boss is a part-time lifeboat helmsman
Stranger things have happened but could MaidSafe’s plan for an alternative internet actually float – or sink without trace?Two years ago a little-known software company from Troon rather unexpectedly announced…
Welcome to the news, as presented by your new host: a robot
A public relations firm which boasts a number of high-profile technology clients has taken steps of its own into the digital world – by developing a software tool that can…
You know it as Bute House, No.6 Charlotte Square. Here’s why it may soon be ‘spend.regime.began’
A new app has the potential to revolutionise the world’s traditional system of addresses using an ingenious three-word systemWhen Nicola Sturgeon poses for photographs on the steps of her of-…
Deliveries by drone and cars that decide whether you live or die: the future is here, but is it really what we want?
From simple web pages to the ‘splinternet’, our relationship with digital technology is changing faster than we can imagineIn the basement of Glasgow’s new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, all is…
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