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Photos: National Geographic explores store tech
Photo The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the switching on of the Christmas lights, celebrating the society's 120 years of bringing the remotest parts of the Earth to the... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: Asus grows eco cred with bamboo laptop
Photo A bamboo-encased laptop made by PC and netbook maker Asus, shown off as a concept earlier in the year is set to go on sale within weeks. The company, which has previous dabbled with leather laptops and is even... [31 Oct 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo Avatars can jump into the company's 308 RC Z concept car and take a test drive. With interest around virtual worlds hotting up again, silicon.com made another expedition into Second Life to check out what some of the... [31 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five of the best touchscreen mobiles
Photo That said, Jobs and co did arguably reinvent the touch concept for mobiles by opting for capacitive touchscreen tech rather than the more common resistive variety. No, Apple did not invent touchscreen technology - though... [03 Oct 2008]
Photos: Dreaming of a Bluetooth Christmas
Photo The company was showing off a Bluetooth digital photo frame (pictured right) but also the concept frame on the left, which has an NFC tag attached to it. Bluetooth trade association, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group... [22 Sep 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo So it wasn't just a concept, it was actually built and made. Packet switching is one of the crucial technologies that made the internet possible. It's 40 years since the technique was invented by a team at the National... [06 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo This is a Toyota concept car, which also uses the hybrid technology. Another concept car on show was Vauxhall's Flextreme, which uses a combination of a lithium-ion battery-powered electric motor and a... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo This shows a concept called cloud printing in which you can wirelessly request print tasks using your laptop or mobile phone. This is Snapfish Labs, which shows off new applications developed for the HP-owned Snapfish... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view
Photo Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge, is featured in an online display presented in conjunction with 'Design and the Elastic Mind', an exhibition of... [26 Feb 2008]
Photos: Nokia takes recycling to the next level
Photo The concept phone has been made with "nothing new using only renewable materials, without compromising a bit on style," said Kallasvuo. Nokia president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, rocked up to the Mobile World... [19 Feb 2008]
Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008
Photo Kallasvuo had a gadget to flash too: a concept phone made entirely from recycled materials. The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - kicked off in Barcelona on 11 February. [18 Feb 2008]
Photos: Scottish NHS trials video checkups
Photo In 2005, representatives from NHS Grampian presented the "booth concept" at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh with universal approval from clinicians. Building on this concept, and also given that NHS... [08 Feb 2008]
Caption Competition: Vroom, vroom
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]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo This is the homepage for DIY Shopper - a concept retail website developed with retail group Kingfisher that uses web 2.0 concepts such as blogs and buddy lists. IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research... [07 Aug 2007]
Photos: Top Gun goes virtual
Photo The Mission Training through Distributed Simulation (MTDS) programme has developed the Capability Concept Demonstrator in which pilots in different locations can simultaneously take part in simulated missions. [08 Jun 2007]
