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Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo Traditionally, one soldier in a Humvee (high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle) stood up through a roof in the vehicle to man the roof-mounted machine gun, which is a terribly vulnerable place to be. [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo Another care robot featured in the exhibition is the RI-Man developed by Japanese company Riken. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic prototype developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, part of the University of Pisa... [15 Sep 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Pictured here is cabinet newbie defence secretary Bob Ainsworth - the man who, among other tasks, will take over responsibility for managing the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure tech change programme. [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: Top 10 smartphones you could take a shine to
Photo While every man and his dog seems to be bringing out a smartphone at the moment, several devices stand out from the crowd. Here silicon.com rounds up the current crop of smartphone heavy-hitters - starting with Apple's... [30 Jun 2009]
Photos: The UK's top CIOs
Photo Mike Wright, head of technology at Man Group and one of last year's top 50, sips champagne. Photo credit: Chris Beaumont/CBS Interactive The champagne reception brought together some of the top CIOs in the country, from... [19 Jun 2009]
Photos: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?
Photo Here a moving image of a running man is shown on the screen above. Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the... [13 May 2009]
Photos: The restaurant where the table takes your order
Photo Not all of the system's uses have been so practical, however - one man even proposed to his wife using the interactive table. While big name phone vendors are falling over themselves to introduce touchscreen devices, the... [15 Apr 2009]
Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo And here is the plaque on the former home of Charles Babbage, on Dorset Street, Marylebone (the beige house in the centre) - the man who invented the machine Lovelace wrote programs for. Google has launched its Street... [20 Mar 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of the Olympic Park
Photo BT recently revealed it is investing 640,000 man hours in building and testing the network infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics. Teams of techies and construction crews are working around the clock to transform this... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: How Betfair predicts the future
Photo Prediction markets react extremely quickly to events - as betters back their opinions with their own cold hard cash, it's in their interest to be more informed than the average man in the street. In the hurly burly of... [22 Dec 2008]
Caption Competition: You lightweight!
Photo The winning caption, from reader Danny Magill was: "The bin man was happy with his find, then he saw the Vista sticker! This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Lewis Imagebank [28 Nov 2008]
Photos: The tech behind the sixth Vendée Globe
Photo BT chartered the tall ship Thalassa to entertain guests and see its man off to the start. The competition - a non-stop solo yacht race around the globe - is regarded as one of the toughest sporting events in existence. [20 Nov 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo It dates back to 1969, when man first walked on the moon, Led Zeppelin recorded their first album and more importantly, Unix was invented at Bell Labs. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th... [19 Sep 2008]
Minority Report: 10 top iPhone 2.0 apps
Photo Secondly, the Flickr pictures it links to are somehow far superior with some cracking shots of local landmarks and a couple of Banksy artworks, as opposed to a mysterious moustachioed man and a morose looking Goth... [15 Aug 2008]
Photos: The jet pack blasts off
Photo Man's obsession with strapping a rocket to his back and blasting into the atmosphere stretches back to the 1960's sci-fi of The Jetsons and Lost in Space. Forty years later a New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin shot... [01 Aug 2008]
