IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This "communicator badge," a prop ...

Star Trek fans and cosplayers, do you want a Next Generation comm badge that actually works? ThinkGeek has the solution for you. The novelty item retailer opened up pre-orders for a Bluetooth-enabled ...

And you thought Google’s ideas came from years of analysis, thoughtful design and just being way smarter than the rest of us. Nope. It seems that sometimes the company’s engineers just watched TV. At ...

If you’ve always thought the communicator badges on the original “Star Trek” TV series were cool, now you can use a device almost exactly like it. However, you’d better be comfortable around needles, ...

Apple has been researching how to make a small, wearable loudspeaker that would use beamformed audio to make it clearly audible to the wearer, yet not disturb anyone else. Apple calls a newly-granted ...

Beam me up, Tim. Apple has filed for a patent (number 20220095049) for a “wearable device with directional audio” that sounds remarkably like — as AppleInsider notes — the communication badges in the ...