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Photos: Cutting edge art at the National Gallery

Photo The box on the right allows you to select the area of the painting you want to look at more closely. The National Gallery in London has been using imaging technology from HP in its research on world famous art and more recently to boost the...

Tags: london, x-ray, images, hp

[16 May 2008]

Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated

Photo Here, the crew that shipped it begin the process of hooking up the box containing the machine to an adjacent crane. The Myhrvold-commissioned Difference engine was shipped from London to the Computer History Museum in California in a custom...

Tags: science museum, computer

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition

Photo This consists of an ear-mounted, jawbone-sensing headset and separate throat-located microphone which are connected, through a wiring harness built into the team member's sledging suit, to a belt-mounted control box.

Tags: comms, expedition, arctic

[17 Oct 2007]

Photos of the month - September 2007

Photo This phone box can be used by avatars to make calls to real world phones and will be launched as a beta trial. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the previous version - now available with 160GB - has been...

Tags: hp, ipod, apple, iphone

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo This phone box allows avatars to make a call out to the real world on their phone. Most of the services are currently just demonstrations of the possibilities of the technology, although BT is planning to launch the phone box as a beta trial to...

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

Photos: Five unusual data centres

Photo But, as Quocirca's Dennis Szubert asked in a recent column, does anyone need a data centre in a box? Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon.com has visited some more unusual locations...

Tags: green it, fuel cell, data centre

[25 Jul 2007]

Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech

Photo The first customer extension of this will be an RFID-based loyalty card for corporate box holders. This week silicon.com got a sneak preview of the new-look Dome. The 23,000-seat arena has been built by AEG and is sponsored by mobile operator O2.

Tags: nec, aeg, millennium dome, o2

[22 Jun 2007]

Photos of the month: April 2007

Photo Staff can use the handheld scanner - the beige box shown here - to read the tags held on the books. Above, a traveller on his way to the airport accesses the wi-fi now available on all Heathrow Express trains running to and from Paddington.

Tags: wi-fi, india, cars, photos

[27 Apr 2007]

Photos: Inside the world's best known RFID bookshop

Photo Staff can use the handheld scanner - the beige box shown here - to read the tags held on the books. But its location isn't the most interesting thing about it - the Selexyz Maastricht store is home to one of the first and most extensive rollouts of...

Tags: book, bgn, rfid

[16 Apr 2007]

Photos: YouTubers spoof and mock tech brands

Photo The iBox has no cords, cables, discs or cartridges.the iBox is just a box in this spoof of Mac machines. YouTube has ridden a wave of popularity to become the web's fastest growing site in just six months, with people logging on to watch more than...

Tags: bill gates, microsoft, apple, ipod

[24 Nov 2006]

Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit

Photo The device manufacturer recently acquired a set-top box company, Kreatel, which runs its hardware on Linux. Running Linux on Microsoft hardware has been the ultimate prize for open source fans and a wiki for the Linux Xbox has been created to port...

Tags: ipod, watch, robot, linux

[22 Nov 2006]

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photo The 'magic box' on the reader is able to show how many times it has been opened - and when. BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn in IT infrastructure and around 3,500 techies.

Tags: rfid

[21 Nov 2006]

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photo GPS is not a box in your car. With the release of Casino Royale upon us, Bluetooth can facilitate your transformation into 007, it seems. A number of watch manufacturers have decided to include Bluetooth in their latest pieces of wrist-wear with a...

Tags: bluetooth, blackberry, nokia, gadgets

[20 Nov 2006]

Photos: First look at Linux Greenphone

Photos: First look at Linux Greenphone

Photo Trolltech's out-of-the-box user interface is fairly standard, with familiar contacts, calendar, messaging and other icons. Trolltech is the company that brought developers the Linux-based mobile application platform Qtopia, based on its Qt platform.

Tags: linux mobile, greenphone, linux

[07 Sep 2006]

Photos: Voters go high-tech at local elections

Photo The completed ballot paper is then put into a secure ballot box, as normal. The government ditched the e-voting trials originally planned for this week's local council elections because of fears over security.

Tags: rushmoor, unisys, e-voting

[05 May 2006]

Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre

Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre

Photo The equipment on display can read around 40 tags per second, meaning a box such as this can have its contents scanned almost instantaneously. IBM recently unveiled an RFID Centre of Excellence at its Dublin technology campus.

Tags: dublin, big blue, photos, photo

[22 Mar 2006]

Photos: How HP goes "beyond videoconferencing" with Halo

Photo In this photo, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz (third from left) explains how his microprocessor engineers are now using Halo between sites in California and Texas to collaborate, with code or images shared on the higher monitor - in this case we see a Quaker...

Tags: halo, hp

[13 Dec 2005]

Photos: See the new Firefox

Photo Firefox lets you use a variety of search engines on the search box and even add your own. Earlier this week the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update to the open source Firefox web browser.

Tags: mozilla, firefox

[02 Dec 2005]

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