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Photos: In touch with Microsoft's Surface

News This demo shows how Surface could be used in a restaurant or bar environment. Surface technology, which the company had been showing off in London. It uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a Vista PC and a projector to create an interactive...

Tags: credit, face, commands, bill

3 October 2007, 10:46

Photos: Up close with Saturn's icy geysers

News NASA's Cassini probe has successfully flown through the plume of a geyser and took its closest approach to the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, according to first reports of the mission from NASA. This appears to be the closest image of the...

Tags: space, mission, science, surface

14 March 2008, 9:46

Photos: NASA tests robot moon trucks

News NASA is planning development of a fleet of robotic trucks and rovers designed to explore the lunar surface, which astronauts are expected to revisit around 2020. This robotic rover is designed to search for water and oxygen on the lunar surface.

Tags: surface, moon, vehicle, apollo

29 February 2008, 9:41

Google sets $30m prize for moon landing

News The idea behind the challenge is to urge private industry to develop new robotic and virtual presence technology to reduce the cost of space exploration.The Google Lunar X Prize calls on entrepreneurs, engineers and visionaries from around the...

Tags: earth, event, race, conference

14 September 2007, 11:29

Photos: Apple MacBook out of the box

News Will some users find the newly glossy surface too reflective? The keyboard has a unique low-profile design that sits flush with the surface of the machine. Even the box is slim for the new Intel-based MacBook, which now comes in black in addition...

17 May 2006, 15:39

Microsoft's Milan tabletop PC a nice touch

News While consumers will be able to touch it later this year, most won't be able to buy a surface computer any time soon. It's very approachable," said Pete Thompson, the former T-Mobile executive who runs Microsoft's surface-computing business.

30 May 2007, 11:09

New screen tech fuses oil with water

News When the material is hydrophobic, the water pushes away from it and forces the dyed oil against the surface. In hydrophilic mode, the water draws toward the surface, shoving the dyed oil to the side, changing the colour projecting from the pixel.

20 April 2006, 10:14

MIT concocts fogless glass

News The MIT technique is somewhat counterintuitive since fog develops when tiny water droplets form on a glass surface. The thousands of droplets adhere to a glass or plastic surface at random, sharply angled points.

31 August 2005, 10:08

Tiny hard disk could give mobile phones 4GB

News According to Cornice, Drop Safe can detect if the drive has been dropped and, if the drive head is moving, stop it and move the head away from the surface of the drive. If the device is to be successful in markets like mobile phones, the drive, and...

20 July 2005, 11:21

Photos: Displays of the future

News When an electric charge is applied to the outside surface of the pixel, it becomes hydrophilic. The water is attracted to the surface, forcing the oil to the side and making the pixel take on the colour of the lower surface of the pixel, which is...

8 June 2006, 12:02

Photos: Lightning strikes on Venus

News Volcanic activity on the surface of Venus makes the rocky planet even less appealing as seen in this drawing. Here is a photograph of the surface of Venus taken by the Russian spacecraft Venera 13 in 1982.

Tags: earth, mission, express, planet

30 November 2007, 10:25

New, Earth-like planet discovered

News Because the parent star is cool and within a large orbit, scientists believe OGLE's surface is icy and too cold for liquid water at an estimated 220 degrees Centigrade below zero. Scientists also predict it has a thin atmosphere, like Earth, with a...

26 January 2006, 9:40

Scientist pitches adhesive Spider-Man suit

News When these hairs brush against a surface, the molecules at the tip of the hairs bond with the surface through van der Waals forces, a bond that forms between two molecules when they are close to each other.

30 April 2007, 10:19

NASA gets ready for 3D view of the sun

News We really have so much more to understand about the sun, and yet it is the very basis of all ecosystems on Earth's surface," he added. The instruments are designed to study the 3D evolution of CMEs from their start near the sun's surface through...

14 December 2005, 9:34

New mobile screens cut battery use

News When an electric charge is applied to the outside surface of the pixel, it becomes hydrophilic. The water is attracted to the surface, forcing the oil to the side and making the pixel take on the colour of the lower surface of the pixel.

12 June 2006, 11:35