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Photo For his next project, Swade says he plans on building Babbage's Analytical Engine.but this time, in a virtual space. The British government initially funded the project but withdrew funding when they saw very little progress made.
[12 May 2008]
Photo The project enjoyed immediate success and was occupied within 14 months of the project starting. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's tech hotspots, and silicon.com went to see...
[28 Apr 2008]
Photo The prototype was developed by engineers from VTT at the Technical Research Centre of Finland as part of a SmartTouch EU-project. Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo MindManager, seen here, figured centrally in the planning of this colossal project and provided a visual interface that rapidly captured, organised and displayed information as intuitive data maps. A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest...
[13 Mar 2008]
Photo Dr Nigel Raine, co-investigator on the project, said: "They have got a relatively small brain but are solving complicated problems. Scientists are making a beeline for RFID technology to open up new frontiers of research into insect behaviour.
[29 Feb 2008]
Photo One objective of the Morph project, says Tapani Ryhanen, head of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge UK lab, is its "combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience".
[26 Feb 2008]
Photo The display is backed with large screens that project images and information about the products. This is Nokia's UK flagship store at 240 Regent Street, London. The shop opened last Saturday with no expense being spared.silicon.com went along to...
[12 Feb 2008]
Photo Once this has been done we will discuss the next phase of the project, including any potential roll out. The Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) is trialling video conferencing technology from Cisco, called...
[08 Feb 2008]
Photo The OS X operating system took its time emerging from the wreckage of the Copland project. Apple's long history of innovative and occasionally quirky design was reinforced with last week's Macworld launch of the wafer-thin MacBook Air laptop.
[24 Jan 2008]
Photo That project was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Mojave Aerospace Ventures. Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's...
[24 Jan 2008]
Photo Jointly developed by the BAA and BA, T5 is due to open on 27 March 2008.silicon.com got a behind-the-scenes look at this five-year project. In June silicon.com visited an annual field trial running military scenarios and testing tech such as the...
[13 Dec 2007]
Photo Pictured with the revamped machine is Tony Sale, who led the 14-year Colossus rebuild project. The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first...
[16 Nov 2007]
Photo St Pancras train station is nearing the end of a 10-year renovation project which will see it become London's Eurostar terminal next month. The project is also aiming to turn it into the most technologically advanced station in the world.silicon...
[31 Oct 2007]
Photo The project will cost up to £250m and will use third party funding and renewable energy partners to help the telecoms giant reduce its carbon emissions. BT is planning to develop wind farms to generate up to 25 per cent of its existing UK...
[19 Oct 2007]
Photo Multiverse's new project, called "Architectural Wonders," makes it possible to design virtual worlds using the company's platform that incorporates real buildings and real cities. One of the chief features of the Architectural Wonders project is a...
[15 Oct 2007]
Photo Since the project started in 1997, domestic services into the station have remained operational but have been pushed back beyond the original Barlow train shed. The station is nearing completion after a 10 year renovation project making it into...
[08 Oct 2007]
Photo The Library is working with imaging company Content Conversion Specialists and Microsoft on a mass digitisation project to bring 25 million pages of its 19th century literature collection to the web. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls...
[27 Sep 2007]
Photo The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project. When the project has been completed, the data will take up around 30TB of storage space.
[27 Sep 2007]
Photo Flag stickers on the back of the robot van represent the various nationalities of students working on the project. Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand...
[27 Sep 2007]
Photo Matthew Brotherton, project manager at the Applied Technology Centre in BT's chief technology office, told silicon.com: "This is about how we integrate BT's communications services that are exposed as part of the Web21C platform, into virtual...
[13 Sep 2007]
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