Focused beams of sound could direct music or speech to a single person in a crowd. Two inventors have staked competing claims to a potential audio revolution.
A new breed of entrepreneurs is out to reinvent invention by uniting far-flung innovators and freeing them from normal corporate constraints.
A topography of nation-by-nation inventive prowess.
One prolific inventor offers tips on how to ensure that your inventions have their day in the sun.
A leading venture capitalist says corporations are too slow and timid to capitalize on their own inventions.
Michael Moritz shares insights-from Yahoo!, PayPal, and now Google-about how the Web really works.
Google reigns supreme as the search engine of choice-but for how long? A pack of startups-and Microsoft-are developing technologies to find what you want, faster.
The R&D spending of 300 top technology companies.
The flow of innovations is as strong as ever, but the U.S. is slipping in its ability to commercialize them.
Machines that create products directly from digital files can save hours of painstaking human labor, compress production schedules, and eliminate costly overstock.