Tag: CEBIT

One day, Professor Tanja Shultz of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology grew annoyed at a fellow train passenger who was loudly squawking into their cell phone. "I thought 'I need to change this'," she recently told the BBC, after unveiling -- at the Cebit Electronics Fair in Germany -- a device that can essentially read lips. Called "silent communication," Shultz's system would allow cell phone ...

Researchers at Germany's Ilmenau University of Technology are developing flying quadcopter robots that can be used to form a self-assembling ad-hoc wireless network in the event of disaster. Built with off-the-shelf parts (including VIA's Pico-ITX hardware and a GPS unit) the robots are designed to provide both mobile phone and Wi-Fi access -- and they can do it far more quickly than a ...