Wanting to help his girlfriend led to an invention with global possibilities, Dr Aonghus Shortt tells Trish Dromey.

It pioneered online streaming of TV and movies, but now faces backlash and competition. Joe Nocera asks can Netflix compete? 

She’s just six years short of her 100th birthday but that is not about to stop Iris Apfel the creative dynamo from being the face of wearable technology for the older generation, writes Margaret Jennings

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

On the outskirts of Stuttgart, the German city where Gottlieb Daimler invented the car 129 years ago, a team of engineers is envisioning a future when people won’t own or even drive their cars.

Carmakers and Silicon Valley upstarts are increasing their efforts to define the car of the future, even though many of them disagree about what that car should be.

A pilotless Audi A7 this week completed a 560-mile journey from Silicon Valley, in California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to attend the International CES 2015 (Consumer Electronics Show).

Sony is bringing back the Walkman, with a new model of the music player pioneer that comes with high-resolution playback and Bluetooth-connected headphones.

NEW Yorkers are pretty hard to impress. You could cartwheel through the A train wearing leathers and a pom pom and they wouldn’t break their stride. But get on the subway wearing Google Glass and suddenly they see you.

Clothes that detect an illness, or vibrate in unison with your partner’s, are becoming a billion-euro industry, says Rita de Brun.

AT THE Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, the roulette wheel of innovation landed on something rather old-fashioned and unexpected: The automobile.

Babies get wearable technology too at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Amazon.com is teaming up with Samsung and other media companies to bring “4K” ultra high-definition television to the masses.

Gadgets to help a user exercise better, cook better, and even brush their teeth better were among the products unveiled at the world’s largest electronics show.

Car-makers and technology firms are jumping on the bandwagon of the driverless car, which remains a concept as well as a platform for new technologies to improve safety on the road.

Riding the wave of gadget goodness from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung released a pretty impressive set of fourth quarter earnings estimates, including a record high profit.

Tech giants will unveil gadgets mid-way between tablet PCs and phones at Las Vegas’s CES tech show today — and analysts predict they will be a hit.

Google is set to present information right in front of your eyes with a set of hi-tech Terminator-style glasses.

SMARTPHONES and tablets dominated the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Los Angeles, with traditional PC companies and rising smartphone powers showing off some of their best ideas for the first half of 2012.

THE credit card bills are coming.

ONE of the world’s biggest sports broadcasters is to film 25 of the World Cup matches in 3D at this year’s tournament in South Africa.

BILL GATES has heralded the arrival of the world’s “second digital decade”, predicting that within a few years technology will be in every room in the home, from screens to wall projections and even built into desks or tables.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who inspired Johnny Depp’s natty-haired character in Pirates Of The Caribbean, will join him in the film’s third instalment, it is reported today.

Microsoft has announced plans to tie together personal computers, televisions and its Xbox games consoles in a move into the rapidly converging consumer electronics market.

WONDERING what the next ‘must have’ gadget will be? Experts believe a keyboard without any keys, a solar charger for your Gameboy, a talking smoke detector and a digital electric guitar are the next trend-setting products.

Samsung has unveiled a range of new products at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in the US.