My wife and I have been downsizing and ridding ourselves of over 40 years of furniture collecting as we prepare to move to our new apartment in downtown Toronto. IKEA, the assemble-it-yourself furniture store, has figured largely in our lives in the last few months as we replace the o

Every year the MIT Technology Review picks the ten technologies that represent significant breakthroughs.  Past years have included crowdfunding in 2012, gestural interfaces to computers in 2011, engineered stem cells in 2010 and low cost DNA sequencing in 2009, just to name a few. Wh

Agriculture Update: Plant Recognition Technology Prototype Being Developed at University of Southern Queensland in Australia Imagine a technology that detects weeds in a field and directs spray equipment to eradicate them. Well the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, Unive

Today it can take considerable resources, effort and time to build a single robot. But at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, a team of researchers is heading up a new five-year project called An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printabl