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Photos: Nokia goes state of the Arte with carbon fibre
Photo As with the rest of the 8800 Arte range, the 3G slider phone offers features such as 'tap-for-time', where tapping the surface below the display twice causes a clock to appear, and a 'turn-to-mute' mechanism, which means a ringing phone can be... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo He demonstrated Microsoft's Surface technology and discussed the future of tech and his charitable foundation. Little did anyone know that this young man would become the richest man in the world, possibly the most famous name technology has ever... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo Today's Telectroscope stays true to its 19th century origins thanks to the array of elaborate dials, gauges and lights that clutter its surface. After almost 100 years a Victorian dream of building a telescope to look from London to New York has... [28 May 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo A grid of 64 sensors monitors the surface of the image, playing piano notes as a person moves across its surface. Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube sets the tone perfectly for outsourcer Satyam's R&D facility in Chennai... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Former Seinfeld star and Celebrity Poker Showdown winner, Jason Alexander, checks out Microsoft's Surface technology at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo The lines simulate airflow across the body work and how it reacts to changes in the surface. 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 teams are... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: Microsoft Surfaces in Vegas
Photo Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside the game, got a glimpse of... [07 Mar 2008]
Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar
Photo Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the full system - which will be similar to the Inmarsat, seen here in a mock-up, network on Earth - goes live later this century. [25 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall
Photo Webcams are attached to each screen which are linked to a computer and track the movement of fingers on the display's surface - doing away with the need for a touch-sensitive coating. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture... [01 Feb 2008]
Photos: Gates takes final UK bow and points to a green future
Photo Gates gave a demo of Microsoft's Surface technology (above) which is currently being trialled by several businesses in the US. Here Gates is showing how he can use Surface to buy and customise a snowboard. [31 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo And talking of CES, we brought together some of the stars from this year's consumer tech extravaganza including Microsoft's Surface technology and this projector resembling Star Wars' R2D2. A video was played showing Gates asking various... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Innovations at CES 2008
Photo Microsoft displayed its Surface technology at the Microsoft booth in the Central Hall. It featured interactive wine software that works with a Surface-integrated table to "read" glasses of wine. CES 2008 was packed with visitors as people gather to... [11 Jan 2008]
Photos of the year
Photo The two 100ft long pontoons of the Proteus are flexibly connected to the centre of the vessel to allow it to adapt to the water surface. Microsoft has been eager to show of its wares in 2007, with pics of its Surface technology, touchscreen... [13 Dec 2007]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo Also created by Virtual Events, this is a floor that reacts to your movements much like Microsoft's Surface technology. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a... [06 Dec 2007]
Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans
Photo The floats drift freely in the ocean at various depths measuring temperature, sailinity and speed of current near the surface. The floats normally usually drift at depths of 2,000 metres or 1,000 metres but every ten days, the bladder in the float... [21 Nov 2007]
