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Photos: Five of the best touchscreen mobiles
Photo Capacitive touchscreens have a top layer that stores electrical charge. No, Apple did not invent touchscreen technology - though you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise considering how every touch-loving smart phone is... [03 Oct 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo Touching the piezoelectric textile pad lowers its electrical resistance causing a current to flow through the aluminium wires and sending the signal to the attached device. Some of the UK's most promising tech... [18 Sep 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo The cell mixes the hydrogen and air coming into the car which then reacts to create electrical energy which powers the electric motor at the rear. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view
Photo NRC has established a research facility at the university's West Cambridge site and collaborates with several departments, including the school's Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department. [26 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo It soon proved its worth with its ability to amplify electrical signals and to switch them on and off. They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com casts an eye back over the ever-shrinking transistor, the... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo The thermo-generators use the difference between the body's surface temperature and the surrounding temperature to produce electrical energy using semiconductor elements. The fuel cell converts the chemical energy... [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo A fuel cell converts chemical energy to electrical and thermal energy. The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen from the air churns out the electrical energy needed to power the servers with three 10kW cells... [25 Jul 2007]
Photos: iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain
Photo All manner of unusual non-electrical items also get left on public transport. Transport for London's (TfL) lost property office covers two entire floors beneath Baker Street Tube station and stores any items left on the... [04 Dec 2006]
Photos: A day in the life of an Amazon.co.uk order
Photo As crates arrive they are unpacked and at this stage individual orders are made up and placed in smaller green crates with the other items that make up that order.am Packers then take the green crates and package the contents ready for... [26 Aug 2005]
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