Our daily lives are now invaded by connected objects, smart appliances and other gadgets of varying degrees of usefulness.

When the PC brought computing to the desktop three decades ago, it began a revolution that’s led to a quantum leap in the speed and productivity in the offices of businesses and institutions. Today, ...

Photoshop has tools and features that can make your work easier and more interesting. One feature of Photoshop is the Smart objects. You may be wondering what are Smart Objects in Photoshop. After ...

In Should This Thing Be Smart?, Justin Peters examines a smart object and tries to determine whether there is any good reason for its existence. Previously on Should This Thing Be Smart?: the $60 ...

1) Smart objects are defined here as objects that can sense and react to the world around them and that can communicate with other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to “own” a smart ...

South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung may be working on a Smart Tag object tracker if feelers from the European Union Patent Office (EUIPO) are to be countenanced. The craze for smart object trackers ...

The exhibition floor at SXSW offers a mixed bag of experiences, from smart motorcycle helmets to devices that induce stuttering (true story, I tried it, it didn’t work). But one of the more intriguing ...

To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of “smart pebbles”–cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with processors and magnets built in. [Photo: M. Scott Brauer via MIT ...