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Photo Over its three decades, the hub has journeyed from radios and pen and paper to GPS tracking to get a steer on where buses are. Click here to see all the high tech watches. Photo credit: Thinkgeek.com Our photos of the... [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: Future tech with an Orange hue
Photo The adapter connects to traditional hi-fis by means of a cable and to Orange's broadband hub Livebox over wi-fi. Twice per year, Orange stages La Collection to reveal its up and coming kit and silicon.com went along to... [08 Apr 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of the Olympic Park
Photo The Olympic Park in the London borough of Newham will be the hub of 2012 Games - which will rely on 900 servers and 8,000 computers to relay results of the athletic battles to the watching world. Teams of techies and... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: Top 10 Xmas presents for the tech team
Photo Here's a USB hub which doubles as a pop-up Pirate game - handy for killing time while waiting for that system reboot. With the festive season looming, here are silicon.com's pick of the presents you might want to... [01 Dec 2008]
Photos: The Queen visits Vodafone HQ
Photo The Duke learnt about Vodafone's research and development programmes, including its Betavine community and mobile development resource hub, the telco's development in widgets and how R&D teams work with students and... [14 Nov 2008]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The number-crunching hub is also one of the greenest of its kind in the UK thanks to its cooling system, seen here. The Merlin computing cluster at the Cardiff University is one of the fastest supercomputers in a UK... [07 Nov 2008]
Photos: Second Life gets down to business
Photo Thameside Metropolitan Borough Council near Manchester is using Second Life as an information hub and access point for its services. With interest around virtual worlds hotting up again, silicon.com made another... [31 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre in Geneva, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: Some creative uses for USB ports
Photo The Force is strong in this four-port R2-D2 USB hub. The loveable rust bucket will spin his head and beep when you insert a USB device. There is also a Darth Vadar version available, depending on which side of the... [18 Aug 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo Regenerative brakes are also often used to recover energy, while brushless DC hub motors help guarantee high efficiencies above 90 per cent. It might look like a UFO hurtling towards you but this solar-powered race car... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo On the left-hand side is the media and communications hub. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in... [02 May 2008]
Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel
Photo The systems are used as an entertainment hub for guests, with a radio, TV, DVD and CD player and a web browser all available. The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places... [20 Nov 2007]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo Pictured is the response team's hub - with the World Map app appearing on a screen on the right hand side. Antivirus company F-Secure's labs in Finland (pictured) are the heart of its operations monitoring and detecting... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive
Photo T5 will be able to accommodate 30 million extra air passengers per year, making Heathrow the leading passenger hub in Europe. This is Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 (T5) in all its glory. The project has been five... [13 Jul 2007]
Photos: The first Windows Vista computers
Photo Dubbed by HP as "the social hub of the home", the TouchSmart PC allows users to access emails, documents, movies and photos through touchscreen technology. Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for... [10 Jan 2007]
