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IBM pours a shot of methanol for ThinkPads

News IBM and Sanyo Electric have put together a prototype of a fuel cell system for ThinkPad notebooks. The methanol-based fuel cell is designed to work with most standard ThinkPad systems and could provide power for up to eight hours, the companies...

18 April 2005, 19:15

UK government gives YouTube a shot

News The UK government -- long accused of being backwards on understanding tech issues -- has come careering into the 21st century with a strategy that will see it use video-sharing sensation YouTube to spread public service messages.

22 August 2006, 9:56

Photos: Google offers a Street View

News This shot shows the front of News.com reporter Elinor Mills' former San Francisco dwelling, complete with a street address and shoes dangling from the telephone lines. This shot shows a closeup of Mills' former apartment building, zooming into the...

Tags: window, san, street, francisco

31 May 2007, 11:16

Photos: Legless photographer snaps from ground up

News This picture was taken in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as part of a series shot in burst mode as Connolly was skateboarding off the sidewalk and into a street. He shot behind his back with his Nikon D200 digital SLR while trying to dodge cars, including...

Tags: shot, shots, exhibition, skateboard

4 July 2008, 10:28

Photos: Microsoft's 3D photo album

News Here, for instance, selected pictures of Paris' famed Notre Dame cathedral (left) are assembled into a 3D model around a relatively simple rendering of the facade (right), based on the position the photographer was in when each shot was taken -- a...

3 August 2006, 10:12

News.blog: The camera behind Google's Street View

News Thanks to our good friend Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing, we now know that many of the images, at least those shot outside the San Francisco Bay Area, were shot using this fairly disco-ball-esque device by the outside contractor, Immersive Media.

1 June 2007, 10:51

Top ten Bond gadgets

News It comes packaged in a 007-branded attaché case to keep everything safe away from prying eyes and wandering hands, and the package also includes a 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T50 digital camera.

6 November 2006, 16:59

Soderbergh shakes up DVD release thinking

News This is the only way that real entrepreneurs have a chance to have a shot in an industry run by huge studios. Bubble itself is an experiment in filmmaking as well as in distribution, shot on high-definition digital cameras, using nonprofessional...

13 January 2006, 10:54

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home, where TV shows like The Rockford Files were shot, was listed for sale earlier this year at $17m (£8m), according to news reports. Webshots member "Kaloke" says this shot was taken from atop Quail Hill looking...

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 10:02

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

News We took this shot from about eight miles away. In the few seconds following this shot, Toyota decided to fire up the Toyota's indescribably loud V8 engine, causing us to leap several feet in the air and hunt for a second pair of trousers.

12 June 2006, 15:48

NY's 'Halo 3' launch nearly starts riot

News A team of Mountain Dew minions were walking around with trays of plastic shot glasses containing a seemingly endless supply of samples of its Halo 3-branded energy drink, 'Game Fuel'.There was a guy in a Master Chief outfit, of course.

Tags: screens, fans, xbox, energy

25 September 2007, 9:14

Sundance festival sees scope in new tech

News Also taking place at New Frontier will be a daily casting of 'soapisode', jointly scripted and shot by mobile phone users at the festival. For filmmakers like David Sington, who shot some 60 hours of interviews for his documentary In the Shadow of...

18 January 2007, 10:25

When 'digital bullying' goes too far

News Scarred for lifeEarlier this month, another British girl had surgery to remove a pellet from her leg after a young man allegedly shot her with an air rifle while his friend photographed the assault with his mobile phone.

23 June 2005, 11:09

Broadband connections up by a third

News The number of broadband connections in the UK shot up by a third during 2006. According to analysts at Point Topic, in the fourth quarter of 2006 the number of broadband connections in the country was 13.1 million -- up from 9.8 million in the same...

30 March 2007, 10:39

News.blog: Shotgun wound didn't stop PS3 buyer

News Penkala, who'd had the foresight to dial 911 on his mobile phone, says he scared off the robbers, but one turned while fleeing and fired a single shot from about 3m away, according to the Telegram account.

29 November 2006, 10:36