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Only a relatively few get to experience Google I/O in person. For those who didn't get to, or those who did and want to relive the highlights, here are some of our favorite images from the conference.

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Now that Google Glass and Oculus Rift have entered the zeitgeist, might we start to see VR and...

Take the 3D sensor inside the Microsoft Kinect , shrink it down to a tenth of its original size and add a bunch of mobile capabilities, and you have yourself PrimeSense's latest conquest, better known as Capri . The company, which is the brains behind the Kinect, has been openly working on bringing...

A mesh network of 500 electronics boards captures radio noise, temperature, humidity, and foot traffic at Google's developer show. [Read more]

The home button on the iPhone has remained pretty consistent over the years, despite many rumors suggesting that Apple would eventually ditch it for a capacitive button which could reduce the number of broke home buttons that many an iOS [...] Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content from...

Not a G2X We’re told that a rethink of a large sensor PowerShot is coming in 2013. It won’t be a G2X and will be designed more like a larger PowerShot S110. It will have a fast short zoom lens and the new 18mp APS-C sensor along with a DIGIC 6 processor. It won’t have an OVF or EVF and will be...

Samsung is rumoured to be about to capitalise on the public popularity of its Galaxy S4 smartphone by further expanding the family to include a variant focusing more on the camera side of things. Dubbed the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, the new phone will reportedly...

Oracle has made a minor investment in Proteus Digital Health, a company that makes ingestible and wearable sensors.

While some of our phones feature pretty impressive cameras at the back that snap some beautiful photos, let’s face it, the front-facing cameras on our phones do leave a little something to be desired. Well if you ever saw the need or wished that your phone had the ability to webcam with friends or...

Aiming at health care as a key vertical market, Oracle has taken a minority stake in medical device maker Proteus Digital Health, which sells ingestible and wearable sensors for tracking health-related information. Proteus is developing what it calls "Digital Medicines," which involve...