July 20 is International Chess Day (also called World Chess Day by the United Nations). In honor of the holiday, the folks at The Noble Collection asked me if I wanted to review the Star Trek chess set. Sometimes my job is really cool. In the accompanying video, you can see the entire chess set […]

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.  If you read that in the voice of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Starship Enterprise, this research is for you. Benett Axtell, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is looking at the influence of the television show Star Trek on Voice User Interface (VUI) technology and how the TV […]