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Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo Users can also explore the earth on the L Series using Microsoft's Surface Globe software, which allows users to zoom in on cities around the world and even find individual streets. Last week saw Sony unveil its new... [14 Oct 2009]
Photos: The phones of the future on display
Photo The mobile phone's body can mimic and take on the texture of the surface it is placed on," according to the designer. The winner of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design Award 2009 was announced this week at the IT and... [06 Oct 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Here, you can see the location where astronauts played golf on the moon's surface. Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, an event Google celebrated by launching Moon in Google Earth, an addition... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: Do the moonwalk, Google-style
Photo Besides enabling users to see the surface of the moon in close detail, the application allows people to gather lots of information about the history of travel to the moon. Moon in Google Earth incorporates the data on... [21 Jul 2009]
Photos: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?
Photo Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's... [13 May 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse
Photo BlueTrack sensor allows use on almost any surface; small footprint Thanks to Microsoft's BlueTrack sensor technology, the Explorer Mini Mouse scrolls smoothly across almost any surface. Considering... [01 May 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo Gears Educational Systems builds a Surface Mobility Platform that schools can use as the basis for robot projects. Players large and small in the robotics industry descended on Boston, US this week for the two-day... [20 Apr 2009]
Photos: From wine tasting to choosing a mortgage
Photo Dave Brown, architectural evangelist at Microsoft's Technology Centre in Reading, demonstrated Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology at its UK launch in London yesterday. Third party developers were also on hand to... [19 Mar 2009]
Photos: Tech cracks the Arctic frontier
Photo This yellow box is the Sprite radar system, which stands for Surface Penetrating Radar for Ice Thickness Establishment. Here holes are drilled into the Arctic ice to insert a custom made SeaCat probe, which measures... [16 Mar 2009]
Photos: Welcome to Microsoft's workplace of the future
Photo And since Microsoft expects nearly every flat surface to be a display one day, this means working just about anywhere. Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, showed a video about the workplace of the... [05 Mar 2009]
Photos: What will be in your pocket this year?
Photo The device is due to surface later this year with Orange to be the first operator to offer it in the UK. The handset that created the biggest stir was the HTC Magic (pictured on the screen above) - aka the second Google... [24 Feb 2009]
Photos: Google Earth - deep-sea dive and travel back in time
Photo You can now fly under the surface and see subsurface ridges and landmarks like this underwater mountain range off the coast of Hawaii. If the Blue Planet isn't enough for you, images of Mars now include extensive 3D... [04 Feb 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo The bank features Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology as well as specialised ATMs and wall screens used as marketing tools. Apple unveiled its first Macintosh 25 years ago and the Mac has been a mainstay of the... [28 Jan 2009]
Photos: A look inside Microsoft's new retail flagship
Photo One of the quirkier tech launches of last year was Microsoft Surface, an interactive screen on the horizontal plane. Surface has been showcased in a number of hospitality sites in the US and at a Tesco... [26 Jan 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo Also making an appearance at Olympia was Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology which is being used by a number of businesses - including Barclays' high-tech bank branch in London's Piccadilly Circus. [19 Jan 2009]
