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Bill Gates bids farewell to CES

News Microsoft has a new concept application for its Surface computer that shows how the product can tie into Windows Live services and other devices. Gates used the tabletop Surface PC to design a custom snowboard and then send the design to his...

Tags: microsoft, demand, speech, copies

7 January 2008, 5:37

Photos: Futuristic PCs think out of the beige box

News The screen surface, for example, uses a photo-optic visual sensor with colour recognition. The surface of Siafu uses a material called 'magneclay', which can morph upward into any shape. Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition, which...

Tags: fantasy, entry, human, shape

20 June 2008, 8:57

Photos: Space, the future frontier

News The astronauts spent nearly 22 hours on the lunar surface, with one EVA (extravehicular activity) that lasted about two and a half hours. This picture (actually several pictures stitched together) was taken by Neil Armstrong while Buzz Aldrin...

2 October 2007, 9:50

News.blog: Ball-cam takes odd snaps

News The little satuGO camera has been bopping around the blogosphere for the last couple of weeks, and it's a pretty unusual concept: a 3-megapixel bouncing-ball camera that yields surprising shots by taking a picture whenever it hits a surface.

31 January 2006, 9:27

Gates says goodbye to London

News Alluding to Microsoft's Surface technology, which he gave a demonstration of, Gates added: "We'll be talking about a computer in the desk in the future. In his final UK appearance before he steps down as Microsoft chairman to pursue his...

Tags: chairman, gates, microsoft chairman, jobs

31 January 2008, 8:11

News.blog: Toshiba delays SED TV again

News Toshiba said it would postpone the launch of surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) TVs from a planned launch in the fourth quarter. SED TV just can't seem to get off the ground. This time the delay is because Canon, its partner in SED...

29 May 2007, 9:27

Photos: Cassini takes an icy look at Saturn

News Scientists say it's possible to see liquid water, even an ocean, on the surface of the small moon.Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute The probe ventured around 200 kilometres above the moon to examine the geysers and then wound up about 50...

Tags: water, earth, planet, ancient

13 March 2008, 9:21

A real-life 'Star Trek' tricorder?

News Researchers at US university Purdue have come up with a handheld device they say can determine the chemical composition of an object or detect trace elements on its surface, similar to the tricorder the actors used to whip out on Star Trek.

28 February 2007, 10:01

Hyperactive Bob gets fries to go

News Some robots are destined to rove the surface of Mars. Others, like Hyperactive Bob, will work in fast-food restaurants. Hyperactive Technologies has come up with a system, based on the computer vision and artificial intelligence systems employed by...

27 March 2007, 10:30

Toshiba's SED TV will be a no-show at CES

News SED, which stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display, will provide a better picture than LCD or plasma TVs, say Toshiba and its partner, Canon. Toshiba's long-awaited SED TV will not be appearing at the Consumer Electronics Show in...

22 December 2006, 8:09

OS X flaw endangers Macs

News The security problem is the third to surface for the operating system in the past week. A serious flaw in Mac OS X could be a conduit for attackers to install malicious code on computers running the Apple software, experts warned on Tuesday.

22 February 2006, 9:09

Toshiba to challenge LCD with SED TVs

News The company has come up with some manufacturing breakthroughs on its surface conduction electron emitter, or SED, televisions that will allow them to release televisions that will be more competitive in price to large LCDs, Naoaki Umezu, the chief...

3 October 2006, 10:30

Iomega looking to make 800GB DVDs

News The company announced on Tuesday that it had been issued a patent that covers a method of encoding data on the surface of a DVD so more data -- to the order of 40 to 100 times that of current capacities -- can be stored.

27 May 2005, 9:06

Photos: Up close with the iPhone and Apple TV

News The back of a new Apple iPhone shows that the company decided not to give the device the traditional mirror surface of its iPod line. A close-up of Apple's new iPhone, which has iPod, mobile phone and wireless Internet functionality.

Tags: apple, displays, press, iphone

10 January 2007, 9:54

Stealth wallpaper shields WLANs

News The FSS (Frequency Selective Surface) panels are made in the same way as printed circuit boards - layers of copper on Kapton polymer - and used on stealth bombers and fighter jets. UK defence contractor BAE Systems has developed a stealth wallpaper...

21 June 2004, 10:05