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Photos: Windows 7 - How it will look on your desktop, part 2
Photo Perhaps the best feature in the new Windows Media Player is internet streaming of your media library. With Windows 7 now released to manufacture, silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com took a look at how the OS will... [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo Spectrum has 400 CPU cores and relies on a combination of 30TB drives and a large tape library. Want to travel back in time to the Big Bang, unlock the secrets of the human genome or discover alien worlds? [18 May 2009]
Photos: iPhone 3.0 under the spotlight
Photo It allows users to search mail, contacts, calendar, iPod library and notes. iPhone 3.0 was launched at Apple's headquarters in California yesterday, with a slew of new features. Scott Forstall, Apple's iPhone software... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: Amazon's e-book reader re-Kindled
Photo Here, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the new device at New York's Morgan Library on Monday. The Amazon Kindle 2 is arriving in the US 24 February for $359. Photo credit: David Carnoy/CBS Interactive The new Kindle has an... [11 Feb 2009]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and technology from the Victorian era and early 20th century. Sci-fi staple - the jet pack - finally made its way into reality as New Zealand... [02 Sep 2008]
Gadget Watch: Bookeen Cybook Gen3 review
Photo There's room for improvement, however, as the eBook navigation and library functionality are not as good as those of its rivals. Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the next... [22 Aug 2008]
Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Photo The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and technology from the Victorian era and early 20th century. The collection belongs to collector and author Maurice Collins OBE and is promoting... [14 Aug 2008]
Photos: Top summer holiday gadgets
Photo Improve the breadth (and depth) of your holiday reading by packing a whole library of classics. Remembering what the kids got up to on the beach last summer will be a doddle with this nifty, ruggedised bit of kit that's... [11 Aug 2008]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo This is one of the 100,000 books the British Library is planning to digitise over the next two years being scanned in the digitisation studio. The Library is working with imaging company Content... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project. Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the British... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system finally got its consumer launch in London with Bill Gates there for the unveiling, in an event at the British Library. With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching,... [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Bill Gates unveils Vista
Photo The company's chairman Bill Gates (above) was at hand for the unveiling, in an event at the British Library. Pop band The Feeling added a bit of glamour to the launch, playing to the journalists and Microsoft partners... [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Google Earth showcases natural disasters
Photo Google Earth and the European Space Agency (ESA) are showcasing the planet with 130 satellite images added to the planetary prowler from ESA's satellite image library. Included are images of volcanic eruptions, dust... [17 Nov 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: Photos of the year
Photo Here a robot hand, part of a tape library, is used by researchers to retrieve the data needed to test their physics theories. Here we see the interior of Amazon's Milton Keynes fulfilment delivery centre. [20 Dec 2005]
Photos: World's biggest grid
Photo This robot hand, part of a tape library, is used by researchers to retrieve the data needed to test their physics theories. The library contains 600 tapes which will hold data from the CERN experiment... [24 Nov 2005]
