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Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets
Photo The colours in the scan reflect the diffusion of water molecules that in turn reveals the brain's complex fibre network. Cubric's 75 servers have slashed the time it takes to crunch through gigabytes of brain... [13 Oct 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News The Boss chair performs a scan of the person sat on it, signalling any metal objects and allowing it to detect items such as mobile phones. Body scanning chairs and mobile phone blocking technology will... [08 Jul 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News Ninety-eight per cent of companies now have software to scan for spyware Organisations that have reviewed the survey include the government parliamentary body, Eurim; the Jericho Forum; the National... [23 Apr 2008]
Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy
Photo The scan, being examined here by scientists at the University of Zurich, revealed the mummy's intervertebral disks, cerebral membrane, blood vessels, and embalming fluid residue. Doctors have been using MRT for 25 years... [28 Feb 2008]
Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News Various time saving, crime-fighting devices are also being used, including video ID parades, live-scan electronic fingerprinting, wearable body cameras and a £50m capital fund to deliver 10,000 mobile... [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo The scan is also much quicker than conventional CT scans, as the machine's X-ray emitting gantry - the giant ring-shaped part that surrounds the patient - can rotate four times in a single second, which is 22 per cent... [04 Dec 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study As the MRI tech is able to scan the whole body, the engineering department has been able to use it in the development of a new prosthetic limb. Researchers at Cardiff University are using their... [14 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We need multiple biometrics
Comment Item Recognition parameterNominal recognition error Difficulty of implementation (1=easy, 10=hard) Difficulty of use for subject (1=easy, 10=hard) Nominal sensor and software cost1 Body size 10 per cent 1 1 $3002... [12 Mar 2007]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News The basic security screening requires the passenger to scan their passport and right index finger at a self-service check-in kiosk before getting a boarding card. A consortium of technology companies, including... [06 Dec 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab on a laptop
Comment Broadly the discussion was about understanding test equipment, and the hands-on experience of manually adjusting time bases and scan rates etc. Start to finish the whole process took 30 minutes including some detailed... [08 Dec 2005]
Confessions of a photocopier repair man
News Geoff Bush from the north of England said one case he'd attended, where a young lady had cracked the glass mid-scan, also jammed the scanner so that it wasn't until the machine was fixed and her colleagues all sober that... [23 Nov 2005]
CIO Jury: Microsoft security strategy gets cautious welcome
News He outlined the details of a subscription-based tool for spyware and virus alerts, a new antivirus scan engine for Exchange users, and a security industry body called the SecureIT Alliance. IT directors... [06 Oct 2005]
Hospitals install wireless to improve patient care
News For example, an orderly could use a wireless handheld to scan the identity tag on a patient's wrist. You can scan the tag on the patient's wrist and pull up patient records on the PDA which saves... [06 Oct 2005]
Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners
News Neil Fisher, director of security solutions at QinetiQ, told silicon.com that a single scanning portal is capable of scanning moving images of up to 500 people an hour and said a US transport organisation wants to scan... [22 Jul 2005]
Cheat Sheet: ID cards
Cheat Sheet The Home Office ran a trial over the summer - which silicon.com took part in - enrolling 10,000 volunteers for a mock ID card using iris scans, facial recognition and a fingerprint scan. Indeed, payment industry... [22 Nov 2004]
