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DAWN BERKOWITZ-ADER hears voices. Lots of disembodied voices. From her 12th-floor office in Midtown Manhattan, Ms. Berkowitz-Ader recently navigated her way through a Web site to precisely the sort of [...]

SonoSite's iLook is a new, handheld ultrasound device weighing three pounds, and slightly larger than a personal organizer. Its compact size makes it incredibly mobile and thus well suited for use in hospital emergency rooms where rapid assessment of injuries and medical conditions is necessary. The device comes in 2 models, costing $12,000 to $15,000., The same wave of innovation that has driven miniaturization for the last few years in laptop computers and digital devices like personal organizers, video camcorders and portable music players is [...]

Nazim Kareemi and Cyrus Bamji of Silicon Valley start-up Canesta have invented an keyboard that can be projected onto a table via cellphone or hand-held device. Similar technologies from VKB and Virtual Devices use a red laser and light waves with an inexpensive set of chips to project a qwerty keyboard ready for consumer interaction. A sensor tracks the movements of the fingerprints on the projection., IT may resemble a popular image from science fiction: high-tech control panels that appear to be little more than colored light. But Canesta, a Silicon Valley start-up company, says it [...]

AT first glance, the new DataPlay music players look like another tech-tune toy in the already crowded field of MP3 devices. But similarities are only skin (or plastic) deep. The [...]

IT erupts from Case Western Reserve University's campus in an explosion of rippling brick, warped glass and cascading shingles of stainless steel frozen between Ka and Boom. But there is [...]

AS digital photography evolves, the variety of storage media available for its cameras is becoming as confusing as the types of film for traditional cameras. The latest entry in the [...]

FOR much of the analog world, the Easter holiday, with its church services, bunnies and egg hunts, is a few days away. But in the digital world, Easter eggs never [...]

IMAGINE a music video that borrows the otherworldly look and interactive feel of some of the best computer games, that can rumble with digital sound and splash onto a computer [...]

Texas Instruments is developing the fifth generation of its DSP chip, the DA250 chip, with a view toward conserving power. DSP chips are used in CD players, cellular phones, PDAs, digital cameras, auto stereos and other consumer electronics. As semiconductor fabrication advances shrink chip size, functions that once required their own processor have been integrated into the DSP chip. Besides being more energy efficient, the smaller chips will allow product engineers more flexibility in enclosure design. Also, look for innovations such as wireless personal stereo ear phones by 2002.

Amid predictions by its developers that it would transform the use and storage of digital information by American households, the 3Com Corporation introduced an Internet appliance it called the Audrey [...]

AT first glance, the scene at MTV's Times Square studio last week was familiar to anyone who has ever watched even a few minutes of the channel. There was music, [...]

MAKERS of personal digital audio players readily concede that despite almost two years of gradual improvements, using the palm-size and smaller devices is still not nearly as simple as slapping [...]

ON the Chinese calendar, this is the Year of the Dragon, but a group of toy and consumer electronics manufacturers would not be unhappy if it turned out to be [...]

IN a single-story wooden building about the size of a mobile home, crammed ceiling to floor with wildly expensive and exotic computer hardware and software, sits a group of artists, [...]

MARK CHAMBERS'S introduction to digital technology came when he was an inquisitive teenager growing up in a rural area of Jamaica. One day in 1985, a friend of his brought [...]

SOME of the most popular computer-based games today are invitations to grab a joystick and enter exquisitely rendered, full-color combat zones in which players assume the identities of superhuman gladiators [...]

Do you simply prefer the feel and versatility of real ink on real paper? Lots of people do, and they can use the new InkLink handwriting system from Seiko Instruments [...]

Do you ever long for the days when video games felt more like play and less like life-and-death digital duels? Jakks Pacific, a company in Malibu, Calif., is banking on [...]

Need further evidence that digital cameras are among the hottest-selling techno-gadgets around? Consider the array of accessories intended for the shutterless shutterbug these days. One of the newest is the [...]

A photographic system aimed at creating an easy, instant record of whiteboard presentations in classrooms or meetings can capture the facts, figures or diagrams displayed on the board and prepare [...]

With broadband Internet access, familiarity can breed contempt when there is only one speedy ramp to the Web. What if the computer needs to be moved to another room, or [...]

Keyboards are, by definition, touchy-feely. Microsoft's new model, called the Microsoft Office Keyboard, may be the most touchy-feely yet. Straight out of the box, the keyboard reveals a new set [...]

Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and for 50 years a voice for Americans who are often not heard, is lending his voice to the Internet. Mr. Terkel is the [...]

BAR codes are found on just about every item sold for the home, from food to kitchen cleansers to cosmetics, allowing the checkout register to identify an item and its [...]

A manufacturer of game controllers and peripherals called Mad Catz is developing a new joystick or game controller called Bioforce. This new controller will bring you into the game in a whole new way by delivering an electric shock to your human opponent. The shocks can range from a mild tingle to a jolt that can make your opponent drop his controller., VIDEO game consoles are continually reaching new levels of sophistication, as Sony's PlayStation 2 and the soon-to-be-released machines from Nintendo and Microsoft attest. But game controllers, those button-laden pads used [...]

Portable digital audio players are pouring into the marketplace, so distinguishing between these chip-based music players is becoming harder and harder. But Samsung may have found a way to make [...]

Cheap thrills are not as cheap as they used to be. Take, for instance, the rattle and rumble of a roller-coaster ride. It can cost $16,000. That is the price [...]

The battle for the coolest hand-held organizer heated up this week with the release of Sony Electronics' latest version of its Clie. The Clie PEG-N710C, $499.99, performs all the standard [...]

Undisputably cool-looking and decidedly tech-forward, flat-panel monitors have been around for years. But for most computer users a flat-panel display, which costs more than three times as much as a [...]

Video game players may soon have a new one-stop game destination online. It will demonstrate, distribute and sell games, provide a forum for people to discuss them, match up players [...]

Stylishly compact, crammed with digital technology and surprisingly entertaining, the new mc3 by Kodak is certainly not your grandmother's point-and-shoot. The camera can shoot digital still pictures and video and [...]

As computer makers keep adding more ports to personal computers, other manufacturers keep dreaming up more gizmos to plug into those ports. Now comes the D-Link DSB-R100 U.S.B. FM Radio, [...]

With its smart, ergonomic styling and color L.C.D. screen in a button-studded back panel, the new Kodak Advantix Preview camera looks like another point-and-shoot that has gone thoroughly digital. But [...]

The dictum ''caveat emptor'' has never rung more true than when shoppers venture onto the Internet with open wallets. The reason, experts say, is not to suggest that electronic merchants [...]

Flat-panel monitors have a higher ''cool'' factor than just about anything else you can plug into a personal computer. They also carry about the highest price tag of anything you [...]

Buffering ... buffering ... buffering. Seeing these words blinking at the bottom of the postage-stamp-size screen during a download of jerky video defines the annoying experience of entertainment on a […]

Nancy Duarte professes no affection or affinity for consumer electronics. Despite being a founder of a presentation technology company in Silicon Valley, she does not go gaga for gigabytes. 'I'm […]

Having just tried its hand at developing a digital music player, Microsoft is working on something new: digital furniture. The company plans to unveil a computing device today called Microsoft […]

LONG among the hottest items in Europe and Asia, ultraportable notebook computers -- supercompact, lightweight laptops that slip into briefcases as easily as a legal pad -- appear to be [...]

The pine- and palm-tree-shaded headquarters of the PGA Tour, nestled on more than 400 acres that include two golf courses, has recently taken on the buzz of a NASA launch [...]

Navigating the aisles of a GameStop video game store in Midtown Manhattan, Bennett Kirschner passed by the latest titles for consoles like Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 2 and 3, [...]

IN science fiction, museums of the future are often pristine repositories of the art and artifacts of times past. Chatty robots and humanoid holograms help visitors navigate the collections. Nowadays, [...]

Microsoft announced yesterday that it was extending the online gaming service for its Xbox consoles to the millions of people who use Windows PCs to play games over the Internet, [...]

WHAT do flying plastic pigs, dancing daisies and robotic Barbie dolls have in common? An iPod. With more than 90 million players sold worldwide since its introduction in 2001, the [...]