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Photos: Honda kick starts motorcycle safety tech
Photo Of the latter, the majority of accidents occurred because of perception failures (failing to see the motorcycle) or comprehension failures (not recognising the approaching object as a motorcycle) or decision failures... [29 Oct 2008]
Photos: Getting hands on with Microsoft touch
Photo Physics engines also allow people to interact with an object on a surface computer, such as handling a ball. Here's some examples of how Microsoft is putting touch tech to use. The ability for a surface computer to... [22 Oct 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo Another development in hand-like technology is this gripper, which uses electric field sensing and pre-touch technology that helps the device decide how to best handle an object. This robotic arm and hand developed by... [18 Jun 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Once it has reached an object, sensors in its hands will guide it on opening and closing its gripper until it has a firm hold on the object. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo Ordering El-E to retrieve an item is as simple as shining a laser pointer on the object you want. The pointer can also be used a second time to tell El-E to put the object in a certain place or give it... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn any object into a 'smart object' - allowing mobile... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Retailers take stock with video tech
Photo Accenture's Visual Shelf Monitoring system, shown here, uses a camera connected to an object recognition system to rapidly spot missing products and get new stock out. Gaps on shop shelves can cost large retailers more... [31 Jan 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Sky
Photo The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, which is a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. This object is a tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar... [28 Nov 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo The legacy of Tron lives on in the virtual world Second Life, which uses Tron-style language - to create an object in Second Life is known as to 'rez'. It's the PDP-1, the system which ran the first-ever computer game. [28 Nov 2006]
