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Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo Hero bot is part of a range of technologies used to protect UK and EU borders, including the e-Borders scheme that relies on biometric checks to screen travellers crossing country borders. It might only be the size of a briefcase but an intelligent... [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Software filters out false positives from the one billion-plus logs that generate the huge amount of data seen on the screen here, leaving Symantec's 30-strong team of security experts at the Reading centre to deal with the most serious attacks. [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo A Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing screen built into the station allows doctors and patients to come face-to-face for virtual consultations. Massimo Lucchina (pictured, centre, TelePresence screen), senior manager of Cisco Technology Centre... [16 Jul 2008]
Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine
Photo This device communicates with the PC via Bluetooth and the patient's leg movements appear on screen, via an avatar. Spanish telco Telefonica has been showcasing some of the research underway at its e-health facility in Granada - one of seven R&D... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo After squinting and peering hopelessly through years of screen grime, and finally resorting to moving desks to gain shade from a nearby tree, I'm eventually up and running, and connected to the wi-fi. [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo The screen here shows how the infrared scanner supplied by Wincor Nixdorf and Irisys measures store footfall. The show covers all aspects of retail technology, from IP VPNs, to plain old cash registers. [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo This design prototype displays some of the features, such as a swivelling screen, that researchers might put into production one day. With two cameras on its hand, the device is able to autonomously recognise cups on the table, pick them up, and... [18 Jun 2008]
Photos: Nokia adds to Eseries line-up
Photo It includes an accelerometer so the screen automatically turns sideways if the phone is held horizontally, much like an iPhone. To further improve work/life balance, the E71 has a dual home screen option - so users can set up a business-focused... [17 Jun 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo This shows how the mscapes environment can be set up with a map of the HP Labs campus on the top left of the screen showing the virtual areas that have been mapped onto it. The mobile phone screen shows print jobs which have been requested via the... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: Five of the best mini laptops
Photo The smallest Eee is very small indeed, with a seven-inch screen, but the 900 (pictured) has a slightly larger display (8.9-inch) and a bigger keyboard making it more friendly to the professional user. [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo Shown here are a palm vein scanner, a tablet PC for staff or customer use and a screen that displays customer offers. This screen is connected to the biometric sensor and displays special offers that the system thinks are relevant to each customer... [04 Jun 2008]
Photos: Google Android unveils its face
Photo This is a view of the home screen, demonstrated by Steve Horowitz, Android's engineering director. A swipe of the finger moves from the home screen to this view, which shows a movable click. Here, Horowitz holds his finger on the screen to set up a... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo The elaborate gold telescope, pictured, houses an oval screen to give the illusion of peering into a intercontinental kaleidoscope. After almost 100 years a Victorian dream of building a telescope to look from London to New York has been realised. [28 May 2008]
Photos: The new-look $100 laptop
Photo The new One Laptop per Child (OLPC) machine - the XO-2 - is one large touch display that can be transformed into a hinged laptop with a touch keyboard, an electronic book or two-screen display. A low cost PC to bring computing to children in the... [21 May 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo The main screen of the WorldWide Telescope contains stars visible to the human eye that are mapped into constellations. To get started, you can click on thumbnail images of your choice - including planets, moons and galaxies - and your telescope... [19 May 2008]
