Photo albums, medicine bottles and billboards could soon be making themselves heard. Hawaii-based company Labels That Talk has created software that converts 10 seconds of sound into a strip of black and white pixels. This can then be scanned and converted back into a sound file. The company plans to add the software to phones.
Detectives in the US will soon have a camcorder-sized scanner that can tell instantly if someone has traces of gunshot residue or blood on their hands. Engineers at the University of Connecticut in Storrs created the forensic tool using X-ray fluorescence molecular sensors developed by…
