Technology

Bob Lutz's advice to current car executives? "Get the design right because people buy with their eyes."

3 | June 11, 2013 3:00am | By Claire Lambrecht

Millennials love their smartphones and bikes. Cars? Not so much. This could spawn a new generation of smart bikes for hipsters and obsessive cyclists, starting with Helios handlebars.

14 | June 6, 2013 3:00am | By Mary Catherine O'Connor

An exhibition at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology spans 250 years of garment history to illustrate how designers play with new technologies to create adventurous styles.

February 15, 2013 10:21am | By Reena Jana

Thanks to ambitions of humans going to Mars one day, technology that turns wastewater into drinking water is improving.

February 14, 2013 7:27am | By Tyler Falk

BARCELONA -- A billion people worldwide lack clean water. One start-up looks to use plants to provide an affordable, chemical-free alternative to the current costly market.

6 | June 10, 2013 3:06am | By Jennifer Riggins

How will Africa leapfrog other continents, technologically? IBM Senegal country general manager Mamadou Ndiaye explains how.

Sponsored | February 12, 2013 11:56am | By Mamadou Ndiaye

In five years, nearly all U.S. students will be connected to high-speed Internet at school.

19 | June 7, 2013 7:21am | By Tyler Falk

Google CEO Larry Page says that Glass privacy concerns will blow over in the same way that smartphone cameras worries did.

3 | June 7, 2013 5:26am | By Charlie Osborne

The $22,000 'smart' rifle from TrackingPoint is here. It allows even a novice to hit a moving target up to 1,200 yards away on the first go.

20 | May 29, 2013 8:18pm | By Janet Fang

Google Glass, the wearable computer eyepiece that has caused concern among privacy advocates, will not allow facial recognition apps--for now.

June 4, 2013 11:06am | By Kirsten Korosec

PARIS -- San Francisco mayor Ed Lee visits the French capital to sign a new pact reinforcing the partnership between the two digital sister cities begun in 2006

June 7, 2013 3:00am | By Bryan Pirolli

Domino's U.K. franchise used a drone to deliver two pizzas earlier this week. Will this successful test (and PR stunt) evolve into a real business strategy?

4 | June 6, 2013 12:04pm | By Kirsten Korosec

Do bosses really understand who's getting things done in the trenches, or do they play favorites? A new web platform shifts that decision to the employees themselves.

4 | June 6, 2013 8:38am | By Joe McKendrick

Olive oil fraud dates back to the time of Julius Caesar. Now a laser developed to measure gases on Mars could help stop this earthly problem.

5 | June 3, 2013 1:59pm | By Janet Fang

Los Angeles to New York in a Tesla Model S could be possible this year.

12 | May 30, 2013 6:35am | By Tyler Falk

A start-up has introduced analytics tools that it says will help businesses communicate more effectively in global markets and identify which countries to prioritize.

June 5, 2013 9:09pm | By David Worthington

Intel's venture capital arm has created a $100 million fund to finance projects and startups developing tech to give your computing devices the ability to see, hear and feel like people do.

3 | June 5, 2013 12:48pm | By Kirsten Korosec

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about technology's place within education.

1 | January 30, 2013 12:41am | By Charlie Osborne

French automaker Peugeot Citroen is claiming a major breakthrough in fuel efficiency due to a new vehicle design that replaces a car's battery with compressed air. It will ship as soon as 2016.

4 | January 24, 2013 7:49pm | By David Worthington

The big glass panels that are built into skyscrapers could soon produce solar power.

2 | May 12, 2013 7:44pm | By David Worthington