Sony’s Highly Personal, Surprisingly Decent 3D Viewer

It's not cheap, and it looks and feels a tad peculiar. But its 3D blows away the blurry stuff on TVs and in theaters.

Designing for touch

Fingers and thumbs turn desktop conventions on their head. Interaction designer Josh Clark explains what you need to keep in mind when designing for mobile touchscreens and compares finger-friendly touch interfaces for iPhone, iPad and Android

jackal, it is frustrating

In reply to The Howard Years Were No Golden Age : jackal, it is frustrating being in a group of people within our society who are criticised as a whole by others, perhaps stereotyped. Being on Centrelink payments and sole parenting - is no picnic if you have any dignity or desire/vision etc!! I think you show the dynamic and feelings in our society of those who work very hard, to your credit ...

Politics live blog: David Cameron's Commons statement on EU summit

• Today's agenda • Lunchtime summary • Afternoon summary 6.00pm: Here's an afternoon summary. • Fred Goodwin, the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, has been stripped of his knighthood. The decision was taken by the forfeiture committee, a panel of Whitehall civil servants. In a statement, the Cabinet Office said that the Financial Services Authority and the Treasury committee had ...

Is Modern Finance Ruining Modern Art? (Part 2): Mark C. Taylor

In ways that are not immediately obvious, today’s overheated art market can help us understand the recent collapse of the overleveraged global economy. Though few have made the connection, developments in the art market have been following the changing investment strategies in financial markets. The global growth in the art market parallels the worldwide spread of finance capitalism. In recent ...

Our brain relies on 'mental city-map' to navigate

Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): People have access to map-like characters in their memory, usually oriented towards north, which helps them cruise around the city, researchers say.

Which direction now? Just ask the north-facing map in your head

You're driving from work to pick up your kids at school. The drive is familiar; you've done it almost every day for years. But how do you know in which direction the school is from your home? Landmarks? The sun? Animal instinct?

Study: Brains Like North Best Because Maps Do

A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, recasts how we make geographic sense of our "home town." In [the study], 26 residents of Tübingen (who had lived in Tübingen for at least two years) were put into a... Continue reading

Volunteer centre closer to reality

A proposed volunteer centre in Sooke has received funding

The world according to Goldman Sachs

Ahead of the Davos summit, Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn talks to The Sunday Telegraph about the outlook for Europe, the US economy and whether 2012 holds any rays of hope.