Using 3D printing, researchers from the University of Stuttgart built a three-lens camera, and fitted it on to the end of an optical fibre.
New technology developed in the US allows a paralysed man to move for the first time.
Groundbreaking technology could revolutionise the future for the blind – but the exorbitant costs make it inaccessible.
High-tech tools such as fingerprint scanners are useful during polls, but a credible vote depends on those who run the system.
South Africa has been slow to adopt renewable energy sources, but there is one option which has proved successful elsewhere and could be adopted.
Companies that suddenly find themselves having to pay higher wages may decide to invest in labour-saving technology.
Two cousins – Tresford Himanansa and Clive Simanansa – are ahead of the game in Africa’s exploding IT revolution.
Technology will anoint the high priests of the new world religion of knowledge, it appears.
The annual IFA tech expo in Berlin delivered both the usual cut and paste slew of copycat devices and some truly new technology.
What can you buy for R110 these days? Lunch for two, a cheap T-shirt? How about a fully functional computer?
Asus was under pressure to deliver at this year’s Computex expo in Taiwan, and responded by pushing the edges of transforming notebooks once again.
YouTube was, for the first half of its history, a service for watching online videos on your computer. What’s in store for the next 10 years?
Scrambl3, a new app on the market, creates the smartphone equivalent of a virtual private network to make messages invisible on the internet.
Thousands are fighting for the right to be forgotten on the internet, a place where embarrassments are rarely erased, writes Alistair Fairweather.
No longer is schmoozing over long lunches and fine wines enough; Swiss private bankers are turning to video games to see off digital rivals.
In the space of 5 years tablets have become a must-have device, a report shows that one in 10 three to four-year-olds own one.
Poor pass rates and stifling government policies and regulations have been undermining efforts to boost local innovation in technology.
At the Microsoft Build conference last week, the company allowed developers to get their hands on its new holographic viewing device, the HoloLens.
Thanks to the inexorable progress of chip design, any smartphone built today is "obsolete" tomorrow, as Moore’s Law marks its 50th anniversary.
A simple tool could give meteorologists access to the world’s information deserts, enabling data collection from large areas of the developing world.
Watson, the technology company’s cognitive showpiece, is bringing artificial intelligence into the kitchen by conjuring up recipes.
The Passport is one of the most unusual new shapes in smartphones since Motorola’s FlipOut way back in 2010.
Adept Airmotive says it is being stripped for parts by the same state agency that left it high and dry.
Why do children catch on to new technology faster than adults do? Arthur Goldstuck and Nikki Bush have a few answers for parents.
A trip to the Lenovo factory in Wuhan, China, was a stark reminder of the impact of scale in the high-tech industry.
Build mountain bike technology into a wheelchair and suddenly the hills open up to the handicapped, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
South Africa has a very high rate of cellphone usage, even among the poor. Could such technology help people keep government accountable?
The Mail & Guardian has launched a free elections app, to keep the public informed in the run-up to May 7.
Girls Invent Tomorrow’s nationwide roadshow aims to educate high school girls about jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
If the new Dr Harry Surtie Hospital has all the latest tech, why are patients complaining?
Technology has exacerbated inequality. But we should prepare ourselves for an increasingly tech-driven world, an act that could eradicate the problem.
Trained or not, humans are still better than the best machines at processing complex data.