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Photos: Google Android unveils its face
Photo The notification service is available through a single button click on the phone's touchscreen. Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The large red 'Scram' button in the centre of the control panel would shut down the reactor in the event of an emergency. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II... [01 May 2008]
Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel
Photo The Internet Bookmarks section allows users to access a number of useful websites with the click of a button, rather than using a full browser. The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places to stay... [20 Nov 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's Zunes get a remix
Photo All three new Zune models will come equipped with a touch-sensitive button called the Zune Pad. Instead of pushing the sides of the main navigation button to move around, a user can simply slide a finger across the button's surface. [03 Oct 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo Skynet 5 also provides videoconferencing via a push-to-video system so video conference calls do not need to be set up in advance and a link can be established at the press of a button. Fortunately this is only a virtual war - part of the global... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: Top 10 mobile design classics
Photo The Matrix-inspired device with talk-of-the-town side-release button hit the market in 1998 and inaugurated the age of the hidden-button slider phone. While other 'mobile' devices had come before the Dynatac, they involved not only carrying a... [27 Nov 2006]
Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo However, some types will need you to accept the call manually with a button press. 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... [20 Nov 2006]
Photos of the month - October 06
Photo The boffins have been busy with a variety of gadgets in development, including Push to TV, where your mobile can function as a remote control for the TV but when you go to press a button the show is streamed via GPRS to the mobile instead. [31 Oct 2006]
Photos: The secrets of BT Labs
Photo In the home the mobile phone can function as a remote control for the TV but when you go out press a button and the show is streamed via GPRS to the mobile instead. To show off some of the gee-whizz stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its labs, BT... [02 Oct 2006]
Photos: Future tech from HP boffins
Photo The camera is continuously recording footage but the user presses a button on the processing unit when something of interest happens that they want to capture. A wearable camera is one idea to come out of the "casual capture" programme at HP's... [12 Apr 2006]
Photos: Inside the antivirus control centre
Photo What does this button do? Access all areas: F-Secure's headquarters is situated in the dockyard district of Finnish capital Helsinki.silicon.com visited to get the lowdown on how one player in the often secretive antivirus industry operates. [12 Sep 2005]
