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Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war

Photo Enforcer is designed to be fitted to a wide range of combat vehicles and can control anything from a 7.2mm general purpose machine gun to a 40mm automatic grenade launcher. Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like...

Tags: soldier, army, mod, credit

[26 Mar 2008]

Photos: Arctic tech gets talking

Photo Six analogue phone lines were installed and tested for data transmission before their direct dial numbers were logged onto a central data processor - held on the sledge - to enable six-way automatic dial-up and data transmission.

Tags: arctic, photo, tech, vanco

[12 Nov 2007]

Photos: Iris scanning at the airport

Photos: Iris scanning at the airport

Photo Iris recognition-based biometric technology has now been rolled out at Manchester Airport. The Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) will allow registered passengers to enter the UK without queuing to see an immigration officer at passport...

Tags: iris

[13 Apr 2006]

Photos: Future tech from HP boffins

Photo Of course there is too much raw footage for the user to process and select manually so HP developed image filtering and automatic analysis technology to do the hard work for them. A wearable camera is one idea to come out of the "casual capture...

Tags: hp

[12 Apr 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo Police can use the system to check MOT certificates, and the system will link in with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) databases which can check against a list of vehicles without MOT certificates in future.

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

[07 Apr 2006]

Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5

Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5

Photo According to BAA, an automatic baggage handling system will track suitcases whizzing around at 10m per second and pick them out for their destination. Welcome to Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. When finished in March 2008, the £4.2bn project will...

Tags: heathrow

[20 Feb 2006]

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