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Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo Up to 10,000 heavy goods vehicles pass through Calais every week on routes that attract many illegal immigrants heading for the UK. It might only be the size of a briefcase but an intelligent robot is helping to protect the UK's borders from... [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Satyam is also developing its own in-car networking and car domain system - dot auto - that promises social networking, mapping of nearby shops and services and the ability to pre-pay for goods such as food and petrol. [19 May 2008]
Photos: The high-tech future of retail
Photo Shoppers can be rewarded for giving their details with discount vouchers for goods. Sainsbury's and Virgin have both used this equipment to promote goods. 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 The pilot is an extension of NFC trials being undertaken by O2 UK, which has seen the company working with partners like Transport for London and Barclaycard on using NFC handsets to pay for goods and as travel tickets. [11 Feb 2008]
Photos: Retailers take stock with video tech
Photo But goods being out of stock on shelves could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new high-tech camera. This analysis produces a snapshot of missing goods, shown here. The system could be linked to handheld devices, instantly telling employees... [31 Jan 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 transfer money between bank accounts. [31 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - July 2007
Photo Gadget e-tailer iwantoneofthose.com has opened a virtual store (pictured above) in Second Life that sells real-life goods. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, which will become home to much of the BA fleet from early... [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: E-tailer Iwoot opens Second Life shop
Photo Gadget e-tailer iwantoneofthose.com (Iwoot) has opened a Second Life island which contains a virtual store selling real-life goods. Once on the Iwoot island - which also has a beach, lighthouse and maze - users can buy real items. [12 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Big brands are embracing Second Life to promote their real-life goods within the virtual world. Ever wondered where the maps on your sat-nav device come from? A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution but the images and... [30 May 2007]
Photos: Inside the world's best known RFID bookshop
Photo While BGN's RFID system helps the retailer identify books as they arrive at the store and reduce shrinkage (i.e.goods gone missing), there remains little at present the bookseller can do to recover a book if a shopper picks it up and replaces it... [16 Apr 2007]
Photos of the month - February 2007
Photo For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for heavy goods vehicles on the autobahn. Honda's new Civic Type-R (above) is one of numerous cars now equipped with iPod capability. Check out the rest of silicon.com's guide to all... [01 Mar 2007]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for heavy goods vehicles on the autobahn. BAG (or Bundesamt für Güterverkehr in German) is the Federal Office for Heavy Goods Transport. [02 Feb 2007]
Photos of the month - August 06
Photo Part of silicon.com's China special report, these photos show people in Shenzhen selling rogue copies of Microsoft Windows and other goods on the street. The dishes of Goonhilly This is the first dish built at the Goonhilly satellite station in... [31 Aug 2006]
Photos: China's street pirates
Photo This computer market, just off the strip, sells legal goods and software. And just outside the market.people are lined up along the street selling rogue copies of Microsoft Windows and other goods. This is Shenzhen's electronics area . [14 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre
Photo The retail/consumer goods industry has spent $230m on equipping pallets and cases with RFID. In the case of queries thrown up by the tagged goods - whether a consumer is old enough to buy alcohol, for example - the system can alert a manager... [22 Mar 2006]
