- Apple's 25 year-old concept finally realised in Siri 'intelligent assistant' Among a slew of reports flooding from Apple's iPhone event this evening lies one of their most important announcements in recent years - Siri. Siri is an all-new intelligent voice-control feature in iOS5 and will be available on the forthcoming iPhone 4S. But Siri isn't strictly a new concept at Apple. Siri’s vision was originally devised almost 25 years ago by Apple and was known as Knowledge Navigator.
- The future of rail travel; non-stop high-speed trains assisted by “feeder” trams One of the main flaws with today’s high-speed trains is that they still have to stop at various locations, picking up and dropping off passengers along a designated route. UK-based designer Paul Priestman believes that by creating non-stop high-speed trains, journeys can be completed much more efficiently.