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Top 10 green gadgets for your office
Photo While the tendency for phone manufacturers to cram ever more functionality into mobiles has helped gadget freaks cut down the number of gadgets they carry, that smart phone in your pocket still sucks down the energy. [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday this month. Over the last half-century, the lab has seen many developments in storage and display created there. The house and grounds have a history that dates... [19 Sep 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E robot is instead... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn any object into a 'smart object' - allowing mobile users to 'physically browse' their... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph
Photo French train operator SNCF is running a trial of a wi-fi internet service onboard three TGV trains that travel eastbound from Paris via the Gare de l'Est station. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains... [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness
Photo A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest Passage, is being tackled by a brave band of explorers with the help of high tech planning software. Amidst the ice-locked terrain, temperatures of 40 below zero and man-eating polar bears the... [13 Mar 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Sky
Photo The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers. Pictured is the 'Big Dipper' or 'Plough' constellation - depending on what side... [28 Nov 2007]
Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms
Photo BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity needs by 2016. The project will cost up to £250m and will use third party funding and renewable energy partners to help the telecoms giant... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: UK WiMax rollout
Photo Pipex Wireless has rebranded and will relaunch with a nationwide rollout of a WiMax network across the UK. Freedom4 - the new name for Pipex Wireless - will initially target SMEs with the rollout of its symmetrical WiMax service, which... [05 Oct 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. The system, due to be fully rolled out by 2010, allows military personnel health records to be transferred between practices electronically,... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: The future of videoconferencing
Photo Videoconferencing has had many false dawns over the last couple of decades because of issues with video quality, poor latency and the cumbersome nature of the products but IT giants Cisco and HP are now going head-to-head with rival... [26 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an island containing a race circuit within Second Life's virtual world. Pictured is silicon.com's avatar taking a walk around the virtual Renault F1 garage. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Celebrating the top CIOs
Photo silicon.com launched the CIO50 list of the UK's top 50 most influential and innovative CIOs at an exclusive private party at the Cinnamon Club in London last week - check out the CIO50 special report to find out who made... [13 Jun 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo This is one of the vans used by mapping company Tele Atlas to gather images and data that eventually ends up on numerous navigation devices. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq -... [21 May 2007]
