air

Photos: Fashionable tech hits the runway

News Some of the trends included a dress that reacts to pollutants in the air and headgear that gives audio-visual feedback to chewing motions. If you are sensitive to smoke and other pollutants in the air and wish to be alerted to their presence in a...

Tags: skin, networks, credit, person

29 April 2008, 9:11

Photos: Toyota's Panasonic kit at the British Grand Prix

News There's an air of excitement as tens of thousands of spectators gather, most of whom seem to have a keen interest in motor racing, judging by the plethora of two-seaters and hot hatches in the Silverstone car park.

12 June 2006, 14:48

Laser printers danger to health, says study

News Office workers who are breathing easy since smoking was banned in public places in the UK can start worrying again, according to research from the Queensland University of Technology's Air Quality and Health Program, led by physics professor Lidia...

2 August 2007, 9:42

Leopard hacked in '30 seconds'

News Security firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) -- the same company that discovered the first iPhone bug last year -- has successfully compromised a fully patched Apple MacBook Air at the Air running OS X 10.5.2.

Tags: air, attack, iphone, operating systems

31 March 2008, 9:04

MIT students to build flying car

News Terrafugia, a start-up created by Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich and colleagues at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is aiming to show off what it calls the Transition Personal Air Vehicle, an SUV with retractable...

16 February 2006, 10:00

What is your Wi-Fi saying about you?

News Much more information can be plucked out of the air if the computer is connected to an access point, in particular an access point without security. And that's just the data snoops can sniff out of the air when a laptop is starting up.

2 March 2007, 9:24

Warming up to climate control technology

News During peak periods, when electricity costs the most and can be harder to come by, these providers reduce energy consumption via a command, sent to a computer on your power meter, that slightly throttles air conditioners or other select appliances.

3 May 2005, 8:41

Eco-buildings saving plenty of green

News The company is marketing its green building projects by showing that an environment with good air and light increases worker productivity, Gattuso said. Not using modern building technologies, such as computer-controlled systems that maximise...

31 October 2005, 15:07

Opera browser taking flight

News Opera worked with Thales last year to add Web browsing capabilities to Thales' TopSeries system, which is already used by more than 15 airlines, including Air Canada and Air France. Opera Software has inked an agreement to license its Web browser...

2 November 2005, 8:53

Never mind Formula One -- let's race rockets!

News In the six months after that, the league expects to see races at an additional two air shows and two car racing events, with a championship event in New Mexico at the 2007 edition of the X Prize Cup. The race will run perpendicular to spectators...

4 October 2005, 10:14

Photos: Jet-powered wing propels solo flight

News Like a skydiver, Rossy steered through the air using only his body, making figure eights and at one point doing a 360-degree barrel roll. He flew the Mirage III supersonic fighter plane and other military aircraft, for 15 years, and in his current...

Tags: structure, press, engines, body

21 May 2008, 11:01

Photos: A satellite spy in the skies

News Its early efforts were declassified in the mid-1990s, and the grainy picture you see on this page is what the NRO describes as the "first imagery" taken by its once highly secret Corona satellite; it shows the Mys Shmidta Air Field in the Soviet...

Tags: field, earth, air, spy

28 February 2008, 9:32

Photos: Tesla charges up electric sports car

News So what is the car doing up in the air? The company got an exemption on putting in air bags for now. On Friday, the first commercial version of the car came out of its shipping crate. The street-legal car was bought by Tesla chairman Elon Musk, who...

Tags: sports, engineering, car, credit

5 February 2008, 9:33

Countdown to shuttle launch begins

News The station is estimated to have enough air and consumables for between 50 and 60 days, though it would take about a month to launch the Atlantis shuttle on a rescue mission. Alternate US landing sites include Edwards Air Force Base in California...

13 July 2005, 9:37

Photos: SpaceShipTwo closer to flight

News Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. SpaceShipTwo will then "air launch" in a way that Earth's atmosphere for its "air launch", is about 80 per cent complete and is expected to start test flights this summer.

Tags: commercial, air, earth, flight

24 January 2008, 8:49