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Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo Similarly, by clicking on the bins citizens can find out when their next rubbish collection is or arrange to have items taken away. With interest around virtual worlds hotting up again, silicon.com made another... [31 Oct 2008]
Photos: Getting hands on with Microsoft touch
Photo Among the advantages of adding physics engines to surface computing is the ability to "stack objects" as seen with this collection of photos. Here's some examples of how Microsoft is putting touch tech to use. [22 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM's store of the future
Photo As the order is made on the site, an order acknowledgement is printed out at the store to alert staff a collection will be made. The IBM business development centre in Hursley contains a number of showcases for projects... [08 Oct 2008]
Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future
Photo Solais House has its own weather data collection system that uses weather algorithms to adapt the heating, cooling and air refreshment systems in relation to outside conditions. Building services company NG Bailey has... [10 Sep 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo Then you need to explore this weird and wonderful collection of USB gadgets. Blast skyward with more pictures here. Photo credit: EAA The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and... [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Photo The collection belongs to collector and author Maurice Collins OBE and is promoting the Business and Intellectual Property centre at the library. Collins had been collecting old gadgets for around 35 years after starting... [14 Aug 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This is the FaceBubble application which uses touchscreen technology to allow people to navigate through their photo collection. This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer music festivals, the best... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo This is the FaceBubble app which is aimed at making it easier for you to explore your digital photo collection. This bubble analyses images to show who features most in a photo collection with the... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: Cutting edge art at the National Gallery
Photo Technology is also being used elsewhere in the gallery: the National Gallery has given visitors the chance to explore its collection of around 2,500 paintings through the Art Start service. The idea is to introduce... [16 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo After its public exhibition, the Difference Engine will be moved to his private collection. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847. His intent was to create an... [12 May 2008]
Photos: Discover high-tech India
Photo This collection of corrugated iron shacks lies next to the plush towers that house Satyam's School of Leadership. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's... [28 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo After the exhibit is over at the Computer History Museum, the Difference engine is slated to move to Myhrvold's personal collection. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo The Library is working with imaging company Content Conversion Specialists and Microsoft on a mass digitisation project to bring 25 million pages of its 19th century literature collection to the web. The iPod Touch... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the British Library's nineteenth century literature collection will be made available on its online catalogue and Microsoft's Live Search Books, and silicon.com paid... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: HP helps art classics reclaim streets of Soho
Photo The images are rain- and graffiti-proof, according to HP, which has had a long-standing relationship with the gallery, including digitising its collection of paintings. Reproductions of priceless masterpieces by some of... [12 Jun 2007]
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