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Photo Intel demoed some of its cutting-edge tech at the Computer History Museum in California. This is a mobile phone vending machine on show at Fujitsu's customer experience centre in Surrey where the company's future vision of retail is laid out. [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo Here's the cover - on display at the Microsoft Visitor Centre museum. Not an auspicious start for a young William Gates who was caught speeding in Albuquerque, New Mexico in December 1977 during the early days of Microsoft. [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo Company researchers demonstrated this and other cutting-edge research from their labs during Research@Intel Day at the Computer History Museum in California, US. This robotic arm and hand developed by researchers at Intel's personal robotic lab in... [18 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Cutting edge art at the National Gallery
Photo Using touchscreen kiosks spread around the museum (like the one shown) you can find where your favourite painting is located, as well as get more detailed information. The National Gallery in London has been using imaging technology from HP in its... [16 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Photo credit: Computer History Museum Doron Swade is a world-renowned Babbage Expert and is also the curator of... [12 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Click here for photos of it being installed in the museum. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Eavesdropping on the net
Photo The Listening Post at the Science Museum in London captures snapshots of fractured conversation from thousands of public chatrooms and bulletin boards. Hannah Redler, head of arts projects at the Science Museum, said in a statement: "It is an awe... [07 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum showcased holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum blew open the UK's arsenal of the future. Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence... [26 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo Bletchley Park is now home to the new National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view
Photo The exhibition is to run until 12 May at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge, is featured in an online display presented in conjunction with... [26 Feb 2008]
Photos: NFC tech takes to the catwalk
Photo Fashion buyers at the Science Museum registered their interest in work by up-and-coming designer Emilio de la Morena simply by touching their Nokia 6131 NFC mobile phone to posters of his clothing, as seen here. [11 Feb 2008]
