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Photo Here, Ant Scientific R&D director, Rob Mullins, is demonstrating how the PC can be used to input commands on the right or show a GPS-enabled map of the area. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect...
[06 May 2008]
Photo Accenture showed off its 'interactive wall' at its R&D labs in France bringing to mind sci-fi film Minority Report. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be loaded into the high tech baggage system at Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5.
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo Picture credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks silicon.com took a trip to Heidelberg in Germany for a behind the scenes look at NEC's R&D labs. Bill Gates gave his last speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in which he offered...
[30 Jan 2008]
Photo Not quite a pop star with a tech exec, but at the annual 3GSM mobile industry gathering in 2006 R'n'B crooner Craig David (pictured) entertained the audience in a 'fireside chat' interview after singing one of his songs.
[22 Jan 2008]
Photo silicon.com went along to NEC's R&D labs in Heidelberg, Germany, to see some of the technology it has been developing. There were a number of other technologies on show at the R&D labs, including an internet TV service with an interactive buddy...
[21 Jan 2008]
Photo Above is the Hursley House, the stately home in which IBM's UK R&D operations are based. IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research and development labs at Hursley near Winchester.silicon.com went along to take a look at, among other...
[07 Aug 2007]
Photo Honda's new Civic Type-R (above) is one of numerous cars now equipped with iPod capability. Check out the rest of silicon.com's guide to all things car and iPod-related here. Photo credit: Honda For two years Germany has had an electronic road...
[01 Mar 2007]
Photo Honda's new CR-V features iPod connectivity, as will the forthcoming Civic Type-R (above) when it's launched later in the year. In-car tech is changing rapidly with satellite navigation systems, DVD players and even in-car broadband now available.
[01 Feb 2007]
Photo See what else silicon.com discovered when we went behind the scenes at BT's R&D HQ at Adastral Park in Suffolk. Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in Northamptonshire, UK as seen from Google Earth.silicon.com chose its favourite Google Earth images...
[27 Nov 2006]
Photo BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn in IT infrastructure and around 3,500 techies. It's also home to a new retail technology showcase. Photo credit: BT which demonstrates how technologies such as RFID...
[21 Nov 2006]
Photo Welcome to Microsoft Research's Advanced Technology Center in Beijing. There are 180 researchers working at the lab, many of whom are linked with China's top universities. The lab has only been open for seven years but during that time about 2,000...
[23 Jun 2006]
Photo Incubated companies can receive up to $100,000 dollars in R&D funding from the government, $12,000 in business grants and free office space. Welcome to Tsinghua Science Park, home to big-hitting companies such as Sina.com, Sohu.com and relative...
[20 Jun 2006]
Photo September 2005: silicon.com's Jo Best gets a look inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs. 26 August 2005: silicon.com's Will Sturgeon tracks a day in the life of an Amazon.co.uk order. Here we see the interior of Amazon's Milton Keynes fulfilment...
[20 Dec 2005]
Photo The R&D operation employs a total of 4,200 researchers, 15 of whom are located here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. France Telecom is pushing R&D as a way to boost innovation and beat its competitors. It plans to raise its R&D budget - currently about...
[03 Oct 2005]
Photo This isn't a photo from a Star Trek: Next Generation conference or a picture of a wannabe X-Man - it's a look inside France Telecom's R&D Labs. The telco, which owns mobile operator Orange and ISP Wanadoo, took silicon.com for a sneaky peak at the...
[09 Sep 2005]
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