Relaxnews According to the Consumer Technology Association’s ‘The Role of Consumer Tech in Back-to-School Shopping’ study, devices from portable hard disks to laptops are moving further up the average family’s shopping list. In all, 59% of parents hitting physical or online stores to equip their children for the first term of the new school year are looking for technology …

  Bloomberg Forget 3D, soon you could be able to reach out and grab the things you see on the screen. Researchers from the US state of Massachusetts’ MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) say that they’ve developed a way of being able to “touch” objects that appear on the screen. Called Interactive Dynamic Video (IDV), what makes …

  Bloomberg Olga Mos was living with her extended family until last year when the 93-year-old found bathing, dressing and cooking too tough to handle solo. Her daughter-in-law Rhoda Wilkinson Domingo looked at assisted living homes. She didn’t like what she saw. “It was just sad,” Domingo said. “Everyone was clean and taken care of, but they looked very dull …