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Photos: A tour of SAS's green campus
Photo In order to achieve LEED certification, the building will need to keep water use to a minimum by utilising rainwater as well as cutting energy use by adopting heat recovery systems as well as solar water heating and... [05 Nov 2008]
Top 10 green gadgets for your office
Photo It features built-in solar panels and the fabric itself is made from recycled pop bottles. Rather than shoving it in the wall for a top up, there's a range of chargers out there that use solar energy to... [14 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo Solar thermal collectors on the roof are one of a number of methods used to heat the water supply of building-services company NG Bailey's showcase facility near Glasgow. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to... [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: Dreaming of a Bluetooth Christmas
Photo Mobile maker LG was also there, showing off a solar-powered Bluetooth car kit (pictured) - the HFB-500 - which fixes to the car windscreen via suckers on its cradle and has a solar panel to recharge its... [22 Sep 2008]
Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future
Photo Solar thermal collectors on the roof of the building are one of a number of methods used to heat the building's water supply. The glass is manufactured with integrated solar cells, with the cells acting... [10 Sep 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This is the Affinity solar powered car, which was built by the Cambridge University Eco Racing team (pictured), and whizzes along at a top speed of 60mph. This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo It uses solar and wind power to charge up festival goers' mobile phones. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the most interesting tech O2 and Orange have... [26 Jun 2008]
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. Solar races often take place on public roads and... [16 Jun 2008]
Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky…
Photo University of Michigan researchers plan to develop quantum dot solar cells to double the efficiency of the current model. The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat... [17 Mar 2008]
Photos of the year
Photo 2007 has seen a bumper crop of top tech photos from silicon.com, including the Apple iPod and iPhone launches, solar bikinis, St Pancras' reopening, trips to destinations including India, Kenya and Russia, sneak previews... [13 Dec 2007]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo From a solar-powered bikini to wireless electricity, there is certainly an interesting range of options. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans
Photo Check out six unusual power sources - including a solar-powered bikini - and the high tech hotel where every room has an Apple iMac. The Argo programme uses thousands of floating devices like the one pictured, which... [21 Nov 2007]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo Scientists are coming up with novel ways to power gadgets - including using body heat and even dung. For example US researchers have developed a way to power electronic gadgets automatically when their owners wander into their home or... [19 Nov 2007]
