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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 sitting in a graveyard. [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 skyward using a 200HP water-cooled... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo Little did anyone know that this young man would become the richest man in the world, possibly the most famous name technology has ever produced and founder of a company which became one of the biggest on earth. [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: Google Android unveils its face
Photo More options on the home screen show a Pac-Man game and a YouTube application. Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development by Google and a number of... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo The space below is surprisingly roomy, considering it will house only one man. 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 September... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness
Photo Amidst the ice-locked terrain, temperatures of 40 below zero and man-eating polar bears the Ice Warriors team led by veteran explorer Jim McNeill have prepared for every eventuality using MindManager. [13 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo Tony Sale, the man responsible for the 14-year rebuild, is seen here posing with the machine. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's flagship store on Regent Street in London... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo Pictured is the reconstructed machine, which took 6,000 volunteered man days to rebuild. The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first... [16 Nov 2007]
Caption competition: Cor, was that you?
Photo The winning entry, from Kate Etherton, was: "Blue Man Group - The Early Years. This competition has now closed. Photo credit: CNET Networks [15 Jun 2007]
Caption competition: Lost in the Amazon
Photo This competition has now closed. The winning entry, from Rob Pendragon, was: "Tell that infinite number of monkeys to keep at it and we'll get Hamlet eventually. Photo credit: REUTERS/Tim Shaffer [08 Jun 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution but the images and data that end up on numerous navigation devices are gathered by Tele Atlas' vans. Ever wondered where the maps on your sat-nav device come from? [30 May 2007]
Photos: BFI switches on film jukebox
Photo Pictured are some of the workstations the public can use to view footage - from a 25-second film from 1896 of Blackfriars Bridge, to an episode of Little Britain and films such as The Wicker Man. The British Film Institute (BFI) has unveiled 14... [14 May 2007]
Caption competition: Little man you've had a busy day
Photo This competition, featuring a pic of Stephen Beynon, MD of NTL:Telewest Business, taking part in a publicity stunt in Trafalgar Square, has now closed. The lucky winner was Philip Cain, who suggested: "Stephen wondered if his asking for a "bigger... [09 Mar 2007]
Caption competition 9: Intrigue at the Tower of London
Photo Runner Up: "Yeo, Man! This competition is now closed. Below are the winning entry and a very worthy runner-up. Winner: "I asked my GPS for the nearest Little Chef or Beefeater. Andrew Davies Haydn Rees [21 Dec 2006]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Pac-Man was another benchmark in arcade gaming, moving away from the space-war style with its hungry little hero. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the first-ever computer game. Built by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1960, the computer... [28 Nov 2006]
