The Daneshis' purchase underscores the new, ever-optimistic economics of home buying. A kaleidoscopic array of mortgages for people with little cash or overstretched budgets has enabled families ...

The graspable haptic device called Grabity (bottom) provides the illusion of weight and inertia to the handling of virtual objects. Here it mimics the feel of a block (top).

Jacqueline Snow, with the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Liberal Arts, and her graduate students, Michael Gomez and Rafal Skiba, recently published findings of their research, "Graspable ...

Unlike the French aural test earlier this week, the German tape was described as clear and "graspable". The written papers also drew a favourable response.