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Photo The screen shows schematics for Satyam's virtual car HeraFxV, named after the Greek goddess of marriage. It is part of Satyam's virtual vehicle development platform, which it will use to sell components and car parts to manufacturers.
[19 May 2008]
Photo This motorised muffin car was one of the art projects on display at the Maker Faire 2008 in San Mateo, California, which celebrates the do-it-yourself ethos. Submit a caption for this picture as a Reader Comment below.
[16 May 2008]
Photo While many teams have opted for large, durable units (the biggest entry is the size of a small car), Team Locust, from Ant Scientific and Portsmouth University, has gone the opposite way and opted for miniaturisation.
[06 May 2008]
Photo As well as the usual essential medical equipment such as defibrillators, the vehicles also carry provisions such as insulated gloves to deal with live wires and cutting tools to release victims of car crashes.
[01 May 2008]
Photo This is one of the team's race drivers, Mark Webber, testing the 2008 car at Jerez in Spain. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes.
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo Red Bull Technology uses sophisticated computer aided design (CAD), wind-tunnel analysis and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications to develop the car. Red Bull Racing race driver Mark Webber puts the new car, the RB4, through its...
[10 Mar 2008]
Photo The device also provides in-car navigation. Nokia announced Maps 2.0 and the 6210 Navigator handset at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. The service and new phone are optimised for pedestrian navigation.
[20 Feb 2008]
Photo This photo shows the technology behind a car-to-car warning system. This means information received by the first car approaching can be transmitted to those following, which saves on the energy needed to transfer the data.
[21 Jan 2008]
Photo The winning entry, from reader Brian Hann, was "Ikea's concept car kit was let down by the instructions. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Itar-Tass/Vasily Kiyashko
[04 Jan 2008]
Photo And for more car-related iPods and gadgets, check out silicon.com's guide here. The three green laser lines measure time to impact to various objects, while the lines on the road show the route the car has taken previously which it uses to perfect...
[13 Dec 2007]
Photo You can change the car's colour by placing your finger on the appropriate parts of the brochure. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a track within a computer game.
[06 Dec 2007]
Photo One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in London's Science Museum earlier this year. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's flagship store on Regent Street in...
[29 Nov 2007]
Photo Carnegie Mellon's robot Boss, a modified Chevy Tahoe, approaches the finish line just minutes after Stanford's car, Junior. But Junior ultimately lost to Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) driverless car, Boss, which was the overall winner.
[14 Nov 2007]
Photo Shown above is the P'9521 mobile, a collaboration between Sagem and prestige car-maker Porsche - a glass and aluminium flip-phone for those with deep (but sleek) pockets. silicon.com's Tim Ferguson went along to a demo of Microsoft's Surface...
[31 Oct 2007]
Photo On the roof of the car, there's a pan tilt unit (PTU), which can home in and focus on parts of the road or objects. Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand...
[27 Sep 2007]
Photo NEC said the technology is also available to create a full customer identity management system that would cover car parking, purchasing and collecting tickets - and allow Minority Report-style interaction with digital signs and adverts at the venue.
[22 Jun 2007]
Photo Pictured are a selection of car navigation systems from GPS tech manufacturer, Navman. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that provide maps to sat-nav manufacturers.
[21 May 2007]
Photo This display shows the information used by a driverless car on show at London's Science Museum. The car - developed by Hamburg-based Team-Lux - will take part in a driverless car rally towards the end of the year.
[27 Apr 2007]
Photo There's even a driverless car rally set to take place towards the end of this year. Team-Lux from Hamburg showed off the car it intends to enter in the 2007 Grand Challenge at the Science Museum in London this week.
[13 Apr 2007]
Photo With travels around India's tech hotspots, Formula One racing car launches and a visit to the home of the future, March was a busy month for silicon.com's roving reporters - and their cameras. The new car (above) looked impressive and performances...
[02 Apr 2007]
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