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Kecia Lynn
Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.
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HealthTap allows users to pose questions to a network containing thousands of physicians. In addition to providing affordable advice, the service gives doctors a way to grow their online reputation.
The project, called RoomE, uses off-the-shelf hardware and custom-designed software to create an environment in which the computer is always watching and responds to both voice and gesture commands.
A San Francisco-based company is planning to ship its super-thin, polymer-based haptic keyboard to manufacturers next year. It offers the sensation, and even the sound, of pressing keys.
A team of researchers has figured out a way to use nanotechnology to create images at the highest dots-per-inch resolution possible. Such images could be used for anti-counterfeiting or high-density data encoding.
Coming to a highway near you, sometime in the next decade: Large trucks, traveling single-file, separated from each other by a mere few meters, controlled only by the driver in front.
Researchers turned to an old Balkan folk remedy to create synthetic surfaces that employ tiny hair-like fibers to trap the insects.
The report, presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, follows studies warning of the presence of arsenic and possibly other heavy metals.