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Minority Report: 10 Apple patents to watch
Photo Chances are this is one for the bin, as Steve Jobs has complained about devices which dedicate half of their physical 'real estate' to input, whether the function in focus needs it or not. This is an interesting one as... [28 Oct 2008]
Photos: Five virtual worlds you need to know about
Photo Qwaq is essentially a virtual office where teams within organisations can work together even if they aren't in the same physical office. One of its most interesting tools is Qwaq Forums, a virtual project management... [21 Oct 2008]
Photos: Touchscreen jumps aboard the Nokia Xpress
Photo The only physical controls are Talk and End keys and a menu control. The eye-catching Nokia 5800 Xpress Music has an expansive touchscreen with a simple icon-based menu interface. Photo credit: Nokia The 5800 has a trim... [03 Oct 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo Forty years after packet switching was invented, silicon.com took a wander through the history of its birthplace: the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex. Blast skyward with more pictures here. [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo It's 40 years since the technique was invented by a team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex, led by professor Donald Davies (pictured in 1974). Packet switching is one of the crucial... [06 Aug 2008]
Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine
Photo This game adds an element of brain training to gentle physical exercise by asking patients to do simple mental arithmetic and then touch the ball that displays the correct answer. Spanish telco Telefonica has been... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo You register the device with your character - in this case a pirate - and it responds as you (or your character) enters virtual areas which have been set onto the physical world. You can also create photo albums which... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Every part of the high-end car will be fully tested in a virtual environment to ensure it will work as well as a physical prototype. Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube sets the tone perfectly for... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo Eleven teams have been selected to go through to the final which includes a physical demonstration at Copehill Down, a specially constructed village built for urban warfare training, in August. The Grand Challenge is a... [06 May 2008]
Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk
Photo Wearing a device on each leg, an individual can generate up to five watts of electricity with little additional physical effort, according to the release. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have... [11 Feb 2008]
Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?
Photo A truly innovative product that eschews a physical keypad in favour of a soft, touch-sensitive interface. But could this new machine one day figure in the pantheon of Apple's greatest creations? Seb Janacek sifts out his... [24 Jan 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo A working prototype has recently been developed by the team at MIT (both pictured above), which can light a 60-watt bulb using a power source two metres away and with no physical connections between the source and the... [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Schoolkids develop games to aid learning
Photo The research project is due to run until early 2009 and has received funding of nearly £210,000 from the European Physical Sciences Research Council. Scientists are developing software which allows school children to... [23 Jan 2007]
Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs
Photo This proof of concept device allows you to link digital content to a physical item. BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn in IT infrastructure and around 3,500 techies. [21 Nov 2006]
Photos: Tower of London trials virtual escapes
Photo Phil Stenton, manager of the technology and lifestyle integration department at HP Labs in Bristol, said: "We think of it as a digital canvas over a physical world. The 900-year old Tower of London - home to some of... [10 Nov 2006]
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