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Photos: 10 years of bananas, flips and candybars
Photo Which mobile hardware do you rate from the past decade? Like most of my contemporaries, my first mobile phone was a Nokia. A solid hunk of greeny black plastic, quiffed with an unapologetic aerial. The screen had an... [17 Oct 2008]
Top 10 green gadgets for your office
Photo The Solio, shown here, can power all the standard gadgets - MP3 players, phones, games consoles - at the same rate as having it plugged into a conventional plug socket and the device will hold charge for a year. [14 Oct 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo This piece of equipment measures a patient's blood oxygen level and takes their pulse - in this case a plucky volunteer guinea pig has 98 per cent blood oxygen and a very low resting pulse rate of 47. [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo This piece of equipment measures a patient's blood oxygen level and takes their pulse - in this case a plucky volunteer guinea pig has 98 per cent blood oxygen and a very low resting pulse rate of 47. [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo The best option for sun-powered racers are space-grade solar arrays - made from rejected satellite solar cells - which have a conversion efficiency rate of about 30 per cent, about double that of cheaper terrestrial... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo As computing power burgeoned and satellite data has improved predictions have steadily increased in accuracy over the decades, with seven-day forecasts in Europe today having a better hit rate than five day forecasts in... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive
Photo This dial displays the rate the cable is being run out from the ship, plus the force on the cable, shown here in kilonewtons (kN). The Ile de Sein (pictured) is a massive ship that sports a crew of 60, who work in shifts... [14 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo This shows paper tape - punched with enciphered messages - being read by Colossus at a rate of 5,000 characters per second. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo The paper tape was fed onto these wheels (pictured) on the Colossus machine and read at a rate of 5,000 characters per second. These wireless telegraphy huts were used by people like Alan Turing to crack the Nazi army's... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk
Photo At that rate, when the energy is stored in a battery, one minute of walking time could provide enough electricity to sustain 30 minutes of talk-time on a mobile phone. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British... [11 Feb 2008]
Photos: Scottish NHS trials video checkups
Photo The equipment allows clinicians to examine a patient's physiology remotely, including blood pressure, temperature, weight, pulse rate and spirometry (measuring lung function). The Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) in... [08 Feb 2008]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo Designed for people who need to closely monitor their health, the mirror displays heart rate and blood pressure - measured via the handle of a toothbrush - and includes reminders for taking medication. [06 Dec 2007]
Photos: US Army's Black Hawk goes high-tech
Photo The multifunction display system in the UH-60M Black Hawk can show more than maps - it can switch among pilot instrumentation, advisories and calculator (for quick determinations of, say, fuel burn rate in changing... [28 Nov 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo The course typically runs for four weeks and consists of 20 to 24 students with the failure rate usually coming in at less than 10 per cent. By calculating the shaft and blade rate, the speed of a vessel... [22 Aug 2007]
Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe
Photo The Entropia virtual currency - called Project Entropia Dollar (PED) - even has a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar, letting participants transfer any accumulated virtual money back into real world funds. [26 Jun 2007]
