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Photos: Fashionable tech hits the runway

News Sha Sha Higby enthralls the audience with a performance down the catwalk that incorporated layers of wood, silk, paper, ceramic and gold leaf. The crowd at the 2nd Skin fashion show at San Francisco's Exploratorium on Friday night eagerly...

Tags: skin, networks, credit, person

29 April 2008, 9:11

Photos: Wearable tech at 2nd Skin show

News Friday's show, local artist Sha Sha Higby performed within her ephemeral body sculpture of layered wood, silk, paper, urushi, ceramic and gold leaf. Science and technology converged with art and fashion at "2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital...

Tags: body, art, air, designs

28 April 2008, 9:24

Greenpeace criticises wasteful IT industry

News If there were no BFRs in products, companies could reuse copper and gold, and wouldn't have to buy it again," said Alhajj. Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has criticised IT manufacturers for doing too little to make components easy to...

Tags: companies, components, technologies, products

6 March 2008, 9:18

Photos: A satellite spy in the skies

News This one, from November 1970, shows logging and gold dredging activities in Siberia. But then, those Defence Department types aren't in the habit of giving away details about classified projects. One thing we do know is that the satellite was...

Tags: field, earth, air, spy

28 February 2008, 9:32

Motorola considers mobile 'realignment'

News Four years ago, Motorola struck gold with its popular ultrathin Razr, which launched in 2004. Maybe Carl Icahn was right about Motorola. The company, which practically invented the mobile phone market in the '80s, is considering spinning off its...

Tags: motorola, mobile phone, consumer, boxes

1 February 2008, 9:36

Photos: The insides of a Roomba

News Here you can clearly see the dirt detect sensor (the gold sensor on the right side). Here's the unsuspecting Roomba intact. Actually, this photo was taken after post-operation reassembly, so you already know how this story's going to end.

Tags: detect, credit, edge, switch

9 January 2008, 11:48

Nintendo sells one million systems in one week

News On 23 November, two new DS colours -- rose and gold -- were introduced via bundles with Nintendogs and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, respectively. Nintendo has revealed its sales figures in the US for the 'Black

Tags: sales, president, america, playstation

29 November 2007, 9:37

Original Xbox games going Live

News European Xbox Live users, who hold Gold membership and have been active since launch. In conjunction with its ongoing celebration of the fifth anniversary of Xbox Live, Microsoft announced yesterday that it will be selling four games, among others...

Tags: points, xbox, promotion, australia

15 November 2007, 8:36

Nokia and Ferrari drive $25,000 phone

News Designers Dolce & Gabbana have teamed up with Motorola for a gold-colored version of the Razr mobile phone, and Prada has developed a phone with South Korea's LG Electronics. The luxury unit of Nokia has started selling a phone designed jointly...

28 September 2007, 9:38

Judge delays Facebook court case

News And ConnectU's Winklevoss twins, who arrived at the hearing clad in matching navy blue pinstripe suits, have all the ingredients of a publicity magnet, too: they recently brought home gold and silver medals from the Pan American Games in Rio de

26 July 2007, 9:50

E3 slogan: 'Everyone's a gamer'

News That may sound like a sort of pseudo-hippie manifesto of gamer democratisation, but it's also a gold mine for financial growth. A few years ago, it would have been unheard of for the executives at a videogame conference to speak so optimistically...

16 July 2007, 9:59

Facebook apps: this month's must-have

News It's nothing short of a gold rush. His Web endeavour hadn't even gone live yet, but he knew he wanted -- even needed -- to be able to build an application for it using Facebook Platform, the set of tools the popular social-networking site released...

18 June 2007, 9:42

News.blog: 'Halo 3' beta opens 16 May

News Those who do have a spot will be able to log into their Xbox Live Gold accounts, download the beta and play in it until 6 June. Are you ready? You'd better be. That is, of course, if you're one of the millions of fans of the Halo franchise.

12 April 2007, 8:51

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News That's because many players hoard gold, weapons, spells or armour worth a lot of money on the open market. For months, hackers -- most likely in China and Russia, according to security watchers -- have been surreptitiously installing keylogging...

11 April 2007, 10:20

Vista to connect to Xbox Live in May

News The pricing is set to remain the same for the two-tiered service, with Silver memberships being free and Gold memberships staying at £39.99. Gold memberships include all standard silver benefits, plus friend and skill matchmaking, multiplayer...

15 March 2007, 11:14