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Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo It might look like a UFO hurtling towards you but this solar-powered race car is proof that fast wheels are not at odds with the environment. Affinity will race from Victoria Falls to Cape Town in January 2009 as part of Zero Rally Africa - a... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo The chances of being first in the race depend very much on limited resources. He also skippered ABN AMRO 2 in the 2005-6 Volvo Ocean Race and holds the 24-hour monohull record of a 562.96-mile run. The boat will compete in the Artemis Transat in... [02 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo This is one of the team's race drivers, Mark Webber, testing the 2008 car at Jerez in Spain. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo Red Bull Racing race driver Mark Webber puts the new car, the RB4, through its paces at Jerez in Spain. This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes where the cars for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo See what else happened in this real life wacky race. A race of driverless cars took place on a former airbase in California this month run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'
Photo The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the green flag on 11 driverless cars to manoeuver a 60-mile course at the former George Air Force Base in Oro Grande, California - or what race officials dubbed Darpa city. [14 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo The armour plated Ford E-350 van will compete in the Darpa Urban Grand Challenge taking place in November where it will race with dozens of other driverless vehicles. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets, scheduled for 3 November. [27 Sep 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an island containing a race circuit within Second Life's virtual world. See more of Renault's island and find out how silicon.com fared in a Second Life kart race here. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Renault F1 races into Second Life
Photo The ING Renault Formula One team has opened its very own island and race circuit (above) - in virtual world Second Life. The island also has a race circuit. A Second Life kart race around the island's circuit rounded off the launch. [01 Jun 2007]
Photos: The car that drives itself
Photo The rally was run in the Mojave desert in 2004 and 2005 but for its third running in November the race will move to an urban setting. Technical project manager of Team-Lux, Volker Willhoeft, said moving the 2007 race from the desert to the urban... [13 Apr 2007]
Photos of the month - March 2007
Photo The new car (above) looked impressive and performances in testing and at the first race in Melbourne two weeks ago suggest the team could be in for a much more successful season in 2007. With travels around India's tech hotspots, Formula One racing... [02 Apr 2007]
Photos: Tech titans back F1 racing hopes
Photo Williams race driver Alex Wurz chats about his return to racing after nearly six years as a test driver. With technology and Formula One more closely associated than ever, silicon.com went along to the launch of the 2007 Williams F1 car. [19 Mar 2007]
Photos: The business boat race
Photo A 'vision mitt' which its inventors claim enables wearers to see via touch has survived an Oxbridge Dragons' Den and scooped a £5,000 cheque to help get its budding business off the ground. The competition was hosted by the Oxford Said Business... [21 Feb 2007]
Photos of the month - September 06
Photo Technology pushes for pole position: Given that the difference between winning and losing an F1 race can be as little as one hundredth of a second, it makes sense Renault has embraced technology to get their F1 team on the podium. [28 Sep 2006]
