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Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk

Photo The system only turns on power generation at the end of the walker's swing phase, just before the foot hits the ground, according to a university release. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a device worn...

Tags: power, walk, batteries, energy

[11 Feb 2008]

Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?

Photo Abhi Talwakar, president of LSI, said: "It's often said that today's accomplishments are possible because we stand on the shoulders of giants from the previous generation. They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com casts an eye back over...

Tags: transistor, form, credit, corporation

[29 Jan 2008]

Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?

Photo But the next generation OS has won a new set of fans for the company. Apple's long history of innovative and occasionally quirky design was reinforced with last week's Macworld launch of the wafer-thin MacBook Air laptop.

Tags: apple, software, macintosh, hardware

[24 Jan 2008]

Photos: US Army's Black Hawk goes high-tech

Photo The US Army's 159th Combat Aviation Brigade will begin taking delivery of the UH-60M - the latest generation of its widely used medium-lift utility helicopter, next month. With the M version, the Sikorsky-built Black Hawk now comes with a digital...

Tags: army, helicopter, military, cards

[28 Nov 2007]

Photos: BT blows £250m on wind farms

Photo The wind farms could generate a total of 250MW of electricity, which would prevent the release of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 each year compared with coal generation. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK...

Tags: green it, wind farm, bt

[19 Oct 2007]

Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe

Photo Pictured is the interior of one such online outlet called 'Vexed Generation Clothing Ltd'. Offering participants a hybrid between the Second Life environment and the game-like World of Warcraft, Entropia is a virtual world with a real cash economy.

Tags: realistic, business, entropia universe, virtual worlds

[26 Jun 2007]

Caption competition 7: Lego of me!

Photo Steven Rollason rd: In the new version of "The Generation Game," Bruce was making the conveyor belt game very easy for contestants This competition is now closed. See below who won. WINNER: Denmark's version of the Terracotta Army was, quite...

[08 Dec 2006]

Photos of the month - October 06

Photo HP turns the tables: HP unveiled its vision of the next generation of gadgets at the beginning of the month. The gadgets are centred around a personal hub: a pocket-sized pod that never leaves the user, overseeing their personal information...

Tags: salesforce.com, salesforce, hp, hp labs

[31 Oct 2006]

Photos: How the table turned techie

Photo HP has unveiled its vision of the next generation of gadgets, all connected to a personal hub. The hub is a pocket-sized device which never leaves the user and which will manage what spectrum the devices use and connect them to the most appropriate...

Tags: table, shelf, wallet, laptop

[09 Oct 2006]

Photos: Sending Galileo into orbit

Photo Galileo could lead to the development of a new generation of super-accurate location based services. Galileo is the European satellite-based navigation system currently being developed. Here's the Giove-A satellite on its Soyuz launcher on pad six...

Tags: satellite navigation

[27 Jul 2006]

Photos: Mobiles of the future

Photos: Mobiles of the future

Photo Students at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London have been coming up with designs for the biggest selling phone of 2015. This device, by Nicola Reed, is a 3G phone with the dimensions of a credit card and is intended to be worn...

Tags: design, st martins, mobile, nokia

[13 Jun 2006]

Photos: Offshore outsourcing like an Egyptian

Photos: Offshore outsourcing like an Egyptian

Photo Many homes have steel columns sticking out of the roof so that another level can be put on top by the next generation of the family. This might be the image of Egypt that most people are used to - pyramids and sand.

Tags: outsourcing, offshore, offshore outsourcing, egypt

[08 Jun 2006]

Photos: Inside San Francisco airport's secure operating centre

Photos: Inside San Francisco airport's secure operating centre

Photo From the observation room inside the secure operating centre (SOC) at San Francisco International airport, staff are able to check out every alert as they are raised by the technology analysing real-time CCTV footage.

Tags: cctv

[24 Apr 2006]

Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'

Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'

Photo Targeting the next generation. Paul Kennard, assistant general manager at the Green Centre, explains that such a scheme is important in engaging the local community and planning for a future where environmentalism is an everyday consideration for...

Tags: reuse, green centre, ricoh, recycling

[16 Mar 2006]

Photos: Offshore, inside India's IT capital Bangalore

Photo The entrepreneurship and innovation centre at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore is at the heart of grooming the country's next generation of high-tech companies and pushing the Indian IT industry up the value chain from the commodotised...

Tags: ba cio paul coby, bangalore, offshoring

[28 Nov 2005]

Photos: Highlights from the silicon.com CIO Forum

Photo Mike Barrett, COO of silicon.com publisher CNET Networks UK (left), and silicon.com editor Tony Hallett (right) during the next-generation CIO panel debate. George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivering the keynote to a packed room of delegates...

Tags: linux tie, cio forum

[28 Sep 2005]

Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs

Photo This isn't a photo from a Star Trek: Next Generation conference or a picture of a wannabe X-Man - it's a look inside France Telecom's R&D Labs. The telco, which owns mobile operator Orange and ISP Wanadoo, took silicon.com for a sneaky peak at the...

Tags: france telecom

[09 Sep 2005]

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