As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as interactive companions to humans - an ...

We learn a lot about objects by manipulating them: poking, pushing, prodding, and then seeing how they react. We obviously can't do that with videos—just try touching that cat video on your phone and ...

A new method allows anyone to 3D print interactive objects, researchers report. These might include models of the brain for use as educational tools, for example. Slowly but surely, we print pretty ...

Imagine a bottle of hazardous chemicals sitting on a laboratory shelf that changes its appearance to alert scientists that its lid is not properly secured, potentially preventing a dangerous spill.

In the 1960s Hanna Barbara animated series The Flintstones, prehistoric human beings lacked modern technology, so they used ancient animals (including dinosaurs, who for some reason in this universe ...

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 ...

Recently literacy has been stressed for all children , even those with the most significant disabilities, and so it is important to consider strategies for involving children who are not interested in ...

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" ...

Human-computer interaction (HCI) is currently caught between, on the one side, the Internet of Things, where objects as such are seen as becoming interactive, beyond user control, teamed up with ...