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Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk

Photo Donelan said: "People are an excellent source of portable power - an average-sized person stores as much energy in fat as a 1,000kg battery. He said: "Portable electricity represents much more than just a convenience to some people.

Tags: power, walk, batteries, energy

[11 Feb 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Some of the other highlights of Macworld included Belkin using live samba music to demonstrate its portable iPod tuner (above). A video was played showing Gates asking various celebrities for a job. His encounter with rock band U2's Bono didn't see...

Tags: speech, picture, credit, history

[30 Jan 2008]

Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld

Photo Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new ultra-portable computers during his keynote address. Mac fans could get a taste of samba at the Belkin booth, where Quetzal Guerrero and Gustavo Angeles play into Belkin's TuneStudio, a portable tuner made for...

Tags: steve jobs, ipod, apple, mac

[17 Jan 2008]

Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008

Photo Apple is touting its new MacBook Air ultra-portable as "the world's thinnest notebook". A display in the lobby of San Francisco's Moscone Center hints at a key announcement in Apple CEO Steve Jobs' Macworld speech - the new ultra-thin MacBook Air...

Tags: apple, macbook, macworld, jobs

[16 Jan 2008]

Photos: UK WiMax rollout

Photo The company intends to launch a range of portable products to offer customers WiMax connectivity in 50 of the UK's towns and cities. Pictured is one of the proposed products - a portable WiMax terminal which has a range of up to 10km outdoors and...

Tags: wireless, wimax, pipex

[05 Oct 2007]

Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech

Photo The Alert-me home-monitoring range (pictured) works wirelessly, is portable and can also tell householders if the front door has been opened. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some of the inventions that were...

Tags: university, chip and pin, innovation

[07 Sep 2007]

Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme

Photo After 2008, a version of the system will be available in field hospitals, on board ships and on the battlefield via laptops and other portable equipment. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system.

Tags: patient record system, nhs it, mod

[02 Aug 2007]

Photos: The first Windows Vista computers

Photos: The first Windows Vista computers

Photo The ultra-portable Medion UMPC has a slide-out keyboard and 6.5-inch touchscreen using Microsoft's Origami user interface. Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer...

Tags: microsoft vista, windows vista

[10 Jan 2007]

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photo Bluetooth can be used to connect wireless headphones to a range of portable devices including phones as well as MP3 players. A number of watch manufacturers have decided to include Bluetooth in their latest pieces of wrist-wear with a view to...

Tags: bluetooth, blackberry, nokia, gadgets

[20 Nov 2006]

Photos: Roll-up, roll-up, for the roll-up laptop

Photos: Roll-up, roll-up, for the roll-up laptop

Photo The screen then rolls up into an easily portable size. Welcome to the screen you can slot in your pocket. A team of engineers at the University of Cambridge have developed 'morphing materials' which have the ability to retain up to three structures...

Tags: laptop

[25 Sep 2006]

Photos: Samsung's ultra-mobile PC

Photos: Samsung's ultra-mobile PC

Photo Samsung's Q1 offers the same features as a portable laptop, with controls on the front as well as on the sides. John Johasky, vice president of marketing for Samsung, welcomes the audience to the San Francisco launch of the Q1 mini-tablet from...

Tags: ultra mobile pc, origami, samsung

[02 May 2006]

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