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Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo It has sensors which 'smell' and hear as well as arms that can be used to carry patients weighing up to 80lbs, as shown above. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic prototype developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna,... [15 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.03.09
Round-Up Burke added: "You can always tell if they eat salt and vinegar crisps because you can smell it. One sign (in case you needed any more) that we are wading through the murky depths of recession is that we stop upgrading... [13 Mar 2009]
"You can always tell if they eat salt and vinegar"
News You can always tell if they eat salt and vinegar crisps because you can smell it," she added. Next time you are eating at your desk, try not to think of the thousands of germs lurking on your keyboard - along with some... [11 Mar 2009]
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology for the 21st Century
White Paper The paper explores the consequences of their collective inattention to methodology on innovation, makes recommendations for addressing this problem in one domain, and provides guidelines for other domains. [02 Feb 2009]
IBM lands Darpa 'build a brain' contract
News Modha said: "The mind has an uncanny ability to integrate information from a variety of sensors, such as sight, hearing, touch, smell and can create categories of time, space and interrelationships effortlessly. [21 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.10.08
Round-Up Smell my Beard', anyone? As it surveys the scene outside silicon Towers this week (mainly rain and a building site in case you were wondering) the Round-Up has been giving some serious thought to the pros and cons of... [24 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up It's not clear whether the smell of stale urine, cigarette ends and cards advertising massage parlours are thrown in too. The Round-Up doesn't have much call to use public payphones nowadays, not being a heavy breather... [26 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Did it smell? Together these structures helped clean up London and end the Great Stink, when the smell of untreated sewage brought the city to a standstill in 1858. We've abseiled down buildings, walked... [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo It really doesn't smell that bad, either. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more... [22 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up Now, there's no denying we love our broadband in the UK. But love is a rose with many barbs and those barbs are irking our country-dwellers more than greenfly and bypasses. The problem is that broadband services aren't great. [06 Jun 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday
Comment I depart the auditorium to be greeted by a smell of fish. Sadly it doesn't smell that nice either. You can practically hear the panic: It'll all be over in but a handful of hours! Did we get the message... [14 Feb 2008]
Wi-fi piggybacking is OK, say silicon.com readers
News This reader added: "Complaining to the police about someone 'stealing' your unsecured internet access is like complaining that your neighbours are 'stealing' from you when the smell of your rose bushes wafts into their... [19 Nov 2007]
PSP Hacks: Make a Battery Pack for Your PSP
White Paper Well, mini power surges aside, any voltage higher than five volts could very quickly, with a sizzle and a burnt smell, fry up the PlayStation Portable into a very handy PlayStation doorstop or paperweight. [17 Oct 2007]
From CIO to consultant: What I've learned so far
Comment Like a former colleague once told me: "Mike, it ain't sold until you can smell the gold. After six months working as a consultant, Mike Barrett has some successes, horror stories and advice to share. For the first time... [05 Jul 2007]
Lean, green, theft-proof machines?
News Neoware, a partner of Citrix, is one company producing pretty sexy devices that look like a laptop, sound like a laptop and probably even smell like a laptop but cannot contain any of the data you'd normally find on your... [06 Jun 2007]
