From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

Alcohol-dependent people given therapy in virtual environments.

Apple has told the developer of an augmented reality app that it will be approved for the App Store when 3.1 goes live

Looking to do something completely different with your iPhone? These 6 apps will help you see the world in a whole new way.

We've heard much about the promise, and now some new augmented reality video footage has us wondering if it's a better idea than we first thought

A new phone app lets you point your phone camera at a nearby street scene and see digital information, maps, land location data appear in realtime

Heard all the fuss about augmented reality? Find out everything you need to know here

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Senator Helen Coonan plans to ask the ABA to clarify public concerns about footage from the reality television program Big Brother.

Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat with their new Natal Xbox motion controller, and we get flashbacks of Nintendo's Power Glove and shonky 90s virtual reality

Much hyped entertainment PC platform in need of a reality check.

In a desperate bid to fight against Microsoft's adverts, Apple has decided to take on reality by claiming that a PC is not good value for money.

The US Army has teamed up with a motion gaming company to create a highly realistic style of gameplay that can actually paralyse muscles during gameplay

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

This Labs featured in the February 2000 issue, any pricing seen in these reviews were correct at the time of printing. Reality has often not matched the hype of mobile compu

The reality isn't quite so straightforward. For many people, the issue isn't one of Java versus .NET. These are, to them, just the base languages, and it's the business frameworks built on top of them

Fictional depictions such as these are startlingly accurate, since sci-fi has paved the way for our acceptance of each generation of robots. Capeks prophecies were fulfilled when robots made their fir

Taking a page out of the popular science fiction series, scientists have managed to turn aluminium into a new transparent form of matter, after it was placed under extreme ultraviolent radiation.

Intel has been outlining its research into the future of the internet and is predicting an increasing merging of the online and real worlds.