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Photos: Wimbledon on target for a tech ace
Photo On the show courts (Centre Court and Number One Court) one person watches while another inputs the score and identifies how the point was won. The club uses these handheld devices to register staff and visitors who enter and leave the club during... [19 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo Simply put, it runs 51 simulations, slightly varying the starting point of each forecast, to produce a range of results that show the most probable weather fronts and where they are most likely to strike, as represented in this chart here. [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. silicon.com visited Fujitsu's Customer Experience Centre in Middlesex to see the... [04 Jun 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo Here you can see that the edge of the Big Dipper's cup does indeed point to Polaris or the North Star, which is located at the plus sign. To get started, you can click on thumbnail images of your choice - including planets, moons and galaxies - and... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo Kemp said: "We humans naturally point at things but we aren't very accurate, so we use the context of the situation or verbal cues to clarify which object is important. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: The high-tech future of retail
Photo The kiosk in itself isn't a new innovation, but it does feature a Wave & Pay point for near field communication payment cards. The high definition projection system uses only one camera shoot and one projector to produce a life-like 3D image that... [15 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo Since its invention, the size of transistors has continued to shrink to the point that today more than six billion transistors - about one for every human alive today - could fit easily in an area the size of a credit card. [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008
Photo In talking about Leopard, Jobs announced Time Capsule, which is a "backup appliance" that looks like the Mac Mini or Apple TV, and is basically a wireless access point with a hard drive. Apple is adding five applications to the iPod Touch... [16 Jan 2008]
Photos: Arctic tech gets talking
Photo UK explorer and environmentalist Pen Hadow (pictured right), accompanied by colleagues Ann Daniels (left) and Martin Hartley (centre), headed north for two hours from the Arctic's Eureka Weather Station to a point 80.0 degrees north to make the... [12 Nov 2007]
Photos: High-tech 'spider-boat' races into view
Photo From an engineering point of view nothing could be more exciting. This is the spider-like catamaran Proteus, the first full sized wave adaptive modular vessel, designed to adapt to waves rather than fight them. [10 Sep 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo IBM has served up a virtual recreation of the Wimbledon tennis championships in Second Life with scoreboards (pictured) which will update on a point by point basis. This month Google unveiled the latest addition to its mapping technology. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: IBM serves up Wimbledon in Second Life
Photo Residents can see the last point replayed on the virtual court as soon as the rally has finished in the real world. The scoreboards will update point by point. Above is the press conference IBM used to launch the initiative, with Ivan Ljubicic, one... [18 Jun 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo The coxswain - in charge of the lifeboat and the only permanent member of staff at the Lytham St Annes station - sits behind the driver to act as a point of contact and observation to the crew both inside and out on deck. [02 May 2007]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo The scheme is a mix of satellite technology - GPS, though a future move to Europe's Galileo system is likely - roadside cellular networks, wireless LANs and point-to-point infrared. So far there is no variation according to route on the autobahn or... [02 Feb 2007]
Photos: The top 10 smart mobile devices
Photo The Q is Moto's attempt at Razr-ing the smart phone and looks are most definitely its main selling point.Based squarely on the 'thin is in', the Q wins a beauty contest as the skinniest Qwerty device, but it's no size 0 bimbo. [09 Nov 2006]
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