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Photos: Cops use tech to point the finger of suspicion
Photo People have been stopped who have presented legitimate looking passports or driving licences but a fingerprint check has found them recorded with a different name. A recent trial, Project Lantern, saw about 200 scanners... [24 Oct 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo UK environment minister, Phil Woolas, has a go on a simulator that tests how efficient your driving is here at the Department for Transport's Greener Driving Pavilion at the show. The Greener... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo CUER completed its first big test on Saturday 13 June after driving Affinity, seen here, from Land's End to John O'Groats using only the power of the sun's energy. It might look like a UFO hurtling towards you but this... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: iPhone-friendly video specs hit O2 shops
Photo The glasses, which enable the wearer to watch a 640 x 480 video image while keeping hands free for other tasks (though clearly not driving), are compatible with Apple's iPhone, Nokia N Series phones and the majority of... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo Photos: The tech driving Renault Formula 1 ¦ This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes where the cars for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One teams are designed.silicon.com... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: Nokia Navigator maps out the route on foot
Photo The company arranged driving and walking tours using the device in Barcelona, here's the device in action. Nokia announced Maps 2.0 and the 6210 Navigator handset at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. [20 Feb 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo silicon.com went along to NEC's R&D labs in Heidelberg, Germany, to see some of the technology it has been developing. Some of the projects include technology to improve road safety, boost the appeal of IPTV and to protect VoIP networks... [21 Jan 2008]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo Team programmers can sit in the back of the van and tweak the software while test-driving Alice. Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Celebrating the top CIOs
Photo Their outstanding leadership is driving real business value across a wide range of organisations, from the biggest FTSE100 players to high-growth innovators to the public sector. silicon.com launched the CIO50 list of... [13 Jun 2007]
Photos: Take a peek at Google Street View
Photo The Google Street View van photographs itself driving past a large reflective window. Google has unveiled the latest addition to its mapping technology, Street View - which shows pictures at street level. [08 Jun 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo On average, teams spend four weeks driving and living in the vans before taking two weeks off. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that provide maps to sat-nav... [21 May 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo Pictured is the driving seat inside the cabin of the Mersey lifeboat. David Forsham, a volunteer for the RNLI for 23 years, told silicon.com pagers have been used in Lytham St Anne since 1987 and are the quickest and... [02 May 2007]
Photos: Tech titans back F1 racing hopes
Photo When asked about the tech involved in running the team, he said he trusts it completely and just gets on with the job of driving the car as quickly as possible. With technology and Formula One more closely associated... [19 Mar 2007]
Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs
Photo For example putting the toy car on the scanner will pull up all the associated content - in this case about driving. BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn in IT... [21 Nov 2006]
Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo As most people should be aware, driving while talking on a mobile phone is illegal and offenders can typically expect a £30 fine - soon to be upped to £60 with an additional three points on your licence. [20 Nov 2006]
