Personal Technology in 2011

Gamers and hackers could control the office as well as games with Microsoft's Kinect

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk, and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads

Never mind electric-vehicle range anxiety, how will power utilities and home systems handle the growing load of a burgeoning fleet of electric cars? A maker of home battery-charging stations partners with networking giant Cisco Systems to enable energy monitoring and management from a single touch-screen device

Preliminary investigations indicate that most of the country's ISPs cut Internet access within a 20-minute period, likely at the government's behest

Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES

Researchers are developing cameras that can take digital snapshots made up of more than a billion pixels

A standardized robotics kit promises to advance the field in ways not previously possible, making robot assistants, especially for elder care, more affordable

China could have one billion cars by mid-century--but what kind of vehicles will they be?

Privacy concerns are overblown, even in our always connected world

As the Chevy Volt, the first extended-range electric car, rolls into showrooms, its chief engineer talks about what's under the hood and why it's not a hybrid