As I walked around my office on a recent morning, a female voice on my iPhone narrated the objects I passed. “Brick,” “wall,” “telephone,” she said matter-of-factly. The voice paused when I came upon ...

For someone who is blind or partially sighted, everyday tasks can be a pain — choosing the right can from the pantry, for instance, or picking up the right book from the table. A smartphone could help ...

LAS VEGAS — The first time you point your smartphone at an Iron Man comic book and watch Tony Stark step off the cover and begin to fly, you’ll be sorely tempted to look past the phone’s screen to see ...

Epic Games has debuted a new tool for developers that will allow them to turn any real-world object into a usable asset in their creation. Epic Games has released its RealityScam app for iOS, enabling ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

The Reality Editor is a Minority Report style AR app that makes programming your smart home as easy as connecting the dots. The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life ...