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Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment He envisages a future where networks of sensors will give us our total individual energy consumption and where computing power could be delivered remotely from large datacentres powered by renewable energy. [07 Oct 2009]
Touchscreen tablet latest Classmate for Intel
News Intel has revealed the design for a tablet version of its Classmate PC, a low-powered netbook designed for use in primary schools. Child-friendly features include a water-resistant keyboard and a sturdy... [13 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment For my young mind it was the magic of dreams: a submarine powered by a force as powerful as the sun, X-ray vision, an invisible man, and machines much smarter than mankind. That one didn't hold water... [28 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo The Tesla Roadster, a sporty variation on the electric car, was one of the many high powered and eco-friendly cars on show at the British International Motor Show in London. Photo credit: BAE Systems silicon.com took a... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: The jet pack blasts off
Photo Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana in Cuernavaca, Mexico produces a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket belt capable of 20-second flights. Forty years later a New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin shot skyward using a 200HP... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo This one has been developed by a team at the Cranfield University, which has been working on electric powered cars for several years. Another concept car on show was Vauxhall's Flextreme, which uses a combination of a... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo In the centre is a large screen powered by a laptop with plotting information. Note the low-tech white scribble pad above the ruggedised, water-proofed keyboard. Further left is a colourful control for... [02 May 2008]
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 floats normally usually drift at depths of 2,000 metres or 1,000 metres but every... [21 Nov 2007]
Controlled Mobility for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks With Passively Mobile Nodes
White Paper Since sensor nodes are often powered by limited energy sources, such as battery which may be difficult to replace, energy saving is an important criterion in any activity. For example, a node mounted on an animal for... [31 Aug 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment Gas powered CHP units can have overall efficiencies greater than 75 per cent, so we are more than doubling the base efficiency compared to large centralised electricity generation with no heat recovery. [25 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment Here is a different perspective: as a young man I came into a world dominated by copper - twisted pair and coax - powered by thermionic valves (or tubes in the US nomenclature). Hard-wired interconnections are replaced... [02 May 2007]
Photos: Top of YouTube - 10 clips taking the net by storm
Photo A mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, the video was made by "the mad scientists" at EepyBird.com. This "computer-generated animation of water" was done by Ron Fedkiw, a Stanford... [21 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on
Comment Most international communication was by telex (a precursor of fax and email), powered by a fleet of bicycle couriers at the Chinese end. But underlying all of this is a huge infrastructure investment in electricity, gas,... [17 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum
Comment Nokia had been an enthusiastic backer of DFMC and during 2004 tested a headset powered by a fuel cell that had a 10-hour operational life on one refill of liquid methanol. Even when this key barrier is lifted, there are... [09 Nov 2005]
Navy buys mine-sniffing underwater robots
News The battery-powered Remote Environmental Monitoring Units - known as Remus - will operate at depths of up to 100m, scanning the seabed to make sure there are no mines lurking to destroy ships and landing craft. [31 May 2005]
