Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon University have been toying around with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and we mean that in the literal sense. RFID tags are typically used for ...

Over the past few years, BBC R&D has been leading the way in creating new kinds of audience experiences. CAKE provided a personalised and interactive cooking experience, Elastic News presented you ...

There’s an intuitive appeal to using controller-free hand-tracking input like Leap Motion’s; there’s nothing quite like seeing your virtual hands and fingers move just like your own hands and fingers ...

We're used to 3D-printed objects being hard and unyielding, or perhaps a little rubbery. Thanks to work being done by scientists at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University, however, we may soon ...

Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a way to use RFID tags to make interactive games and controllers so cheap, they're "essentially disposable." Their system called "RapID" ...

Acorn computer inventor Herman Hauser has been talking about how he thinks future technology will develop, including robots that can learn to ride a unicycle faster than a human. Many felt Acorn's ...

"Huge flexibility as a storyteller" - what's involved in the first ever object-based, interactive radio drama. Over the past few years, BBC R&D has been leading the way in creating new kinds of ...