Robots could one day save your life. That's the hope of those involved in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which recently came to an end in California.

The next generation of mobile technology is still at least five years away, but when it arrives New Zealand could be among the first countries to get it.

Mounting a flat screen TV on the wall can be expensive and time consuming - and makes it very hard to redesign your room.

Panasonic's shares jumped after the company forecast profit will climb 23 per cent next fiscal year to the highest since 2008 on demand for housing and car information and entertainment systems.

Parallel to the exponential growth in technology is the growth of the internet of everything, or put simply, the connectivity of all devices to the internet.

Despite the fast changing market, JB Hi-Fi excels at jumping on the next big thing in technology and getting the march on its competitors, writes Christophwer Niesche.

Large US home improvement chains are selling virtual tools - sensors, Wi-Fi enabled appliances and software - to help people monitor and control their homes from their smartphones.

A comment to a reporter that he was selling all his companies and giving the money to charity was a polite way of telling him to 'f-off', says Navman founder Peter Maire.

Navman founder Sir Peter Maire's Fusion Electronics has been sold to US navigation device giant Garmin.

Find it difficult to make it to the end of the day with a full battery on your smartphone? Engineers in Tel-Aviv have come up with a solution.

The US hedge fund manager renowned for shaking up Yahoo! has set his sights on Sony, proposing that the Japanese electronics giant spin off up to 20 per cent of its movie, television and music division

NZ company PowerbyProxi, which develops wireless charging technology, has just closed a $5 million funding round and secured a major new partnership.

The Alaska Brewing Company is being a bit clever and using its own brewing process to power the brewery with a unique boiler system.

A solar "superstorm" could knock out Earth's communications satellites, cause dangerous power surges and disrupt crucial navigation aids, a report says.

When will all the cool new TV's come to New Zealand?

Kiwi entrepreneur Sir Peter Maire says it's "disappointing" few New Zealand firms appear to have shown up for this year's Consumer Electronics Show.