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Photos: National Geographic explores store tech
Photo The equipment will also be used for lectures and question and answer sessions with explorers in the field. The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo Law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has had an office in Second Life since April 2007. There are organisations from a huge range of sectors plying their trade in Second Life in interesting and unusual ways. [31 Oct 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers unlocking the brain's secrets
Photo This blue and green graph shows the electromagnetic field (EMF) readings in the MEG. Supercomputing is helping UK researchers to delve deeper into the workings of the human mind than ever before. At the Cardiff... [13 Oct 2008]
Photos: Dreaming of a Bluetooth Christmas
Photo Wireless mobile accessory company Parrot brought NFC (near field communication) to the Bluetooth party - and the company said NFC can act as an enabler by 'waking up the Bluetooth' and simplifying the transfer process to... [22 Sep 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo The so-called "magnetocaloric" metals, such as gadolinium alloys, heat up when exposed to a magnetic field. The heat is then removed from the materials and the magnetic field is weakened by moving the... [18 Sep 2008]
Photos: Inside the Army's war games
Photo The MoD has turned to computer games to give army drivers sent to the Middle East some experience of the situations they might encounter in the field. The software, based on a game called Armed Assault published by... [01 Sep 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo The software can field basic typed requests such as 'what time is it? Networking company Cisco has been showing off some of the technologies it's working on in its R&D division - including this telehealth station,... [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo Another development in hand-like technology is this gripper, which uses electric field sensing and pre-touch technology that helps the device decide how to best handle an object. Gripping and grabbing is a... [18 Jun 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn any object into a 'smart object' - allowing mobile users to 'physically... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy
Photo The mummy is loaded into the MRT scanner, which creates a strong magnetic field that causes hydrogen atoms within the corpse to generate radio waves. A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured here, is... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: The high-tech future of retail
Photo The kiosk in itself isn't a new innovation, but it does feature a Wave & Pay point for near field communication payment cards. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail Business Show held... [15 Feb 2008]
Photos: NFC tech takes to the catwalk
Photo High fashion met high-tech when style gurus at London Fashion Week chose the designs that will be dominating the high street using near field communication (NFC). Fashion buyers at the Science Museum registered their... [11 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and... [31 Jan 2008]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo An improved Colossus Mark II was first installed in June 1944 and was working in time for commander Eisenhower and field marshall Montgomery to be sure Hitler had swallowed the deception campaigns prior to D-Day on 6... [16 Nov 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS) centres which the MoD runs around the globe, as well as field hospitals and 25 Royal Navy ships. [02 Aug 2007]
