Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a navigational assistant that can help inform visually impaired people of their whereabouts, or even bring new dimensions to museum navigation or campus tours for sighted individuals. [ + ]

Earlier this year, Malaysian Deputy Defence Minister, Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal, inaugurated in Sabah, Eastern Malaysia, the Tetrapol network used by the Malaysian Armed Forces. [ + ]

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) in the US and Motorola's Advanced Technology Center are developing three-dimensional switches and tiny fuel cells to improve the reception quality and extend the operating time for wireless communications and other wireless sensing devices. [ + ]

A review designed to simplify arrangements for amateur radio licence operators has been launched by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA). [ + ]

Four laboratories and an equal number of manufacturers have pooled their skills to develop the first T-shirt that, 'barded' with physiological and medical measurement sensors and linked via the GSM network to a specialist centre, is a new operational telemonitoring tool; a new advance in the field of telemedicine. [ + ]

In the future, mobile phone calls and television pictures could become a lot clearer thanks to tiny antennas thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. At least that's the speculation of a University of Southern California researcher who has been investigating nanotube transistors. [ + ]