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ISE 2012 reveals the shape of displays to come
ISE 2012, recently held in Amsterdam, is one of the largest professional audio-visual trade shows in Europe. It brought together over 750 exhibitors, but also distributors and technology managers from more than 100 countries worldwide. Among the innovations on show a flat-screen TV, called ‘Magic…
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Ultra thin solar film could mean end of phone charger
Researchers in a laboratory in France are working on an ultra thin…
02/02 15:29 CET -
Patients benefit from day-night lighting
Sleep is vital to our health and to the healing process. At this hospital in the Netherlands a new system of lighting is being trialled to…
01/02 14:50 CET -
Software to predict and prevent crime
It is home to a stretch of coast popular with surfers and one of the oldest funfairs in the United States, welcome to Santa Cruz. But over…
24/01 16:58 CET -
3D facial scanning set to revolutionise surgery
Visitors to London’s Science Museum are getting the chance to have their faces scanned in 3D. Using a series of cameras, the subject…
23/01 17:09 CET -
Score! Portugal’s footballing robots
Portuguese scientists are developing robots to help people with mobility problems. The researchers in Guimarães are trying to create robots…
19/01 13:46 CET -
New Wii will rock you
Japanese gaming giant Nintendo expects to release its next generation Wii, the Wii U, this summer. One of the stars of the Consumer…
16/01 15:06 CET -
Tablets at CES
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is, say the organisers, gadget heaven. They expect around 150,000 people to visit the show…
12/01 15:14 CET
Previous editions
- Super flatscreen TVs go head-to-head at CES 2012
- Portuguese research brings solar power to fabrics
- New ash cloud detector could spell less passenger chaos
- Play to learn at Serious Games show
- Techno-zombies
- Rare showing of Leonardo self portrait
- Robots on show
- Dreamliner dims its windows for Dubai airshow
- The cutting edge of art
- Game Story: From Pacman to Call of Duty
- Could space hopper ‘multicopter’ be air car of the future?
- Portuguese researchers resurrect the airship
