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NEW Sixthsense The Wearable Computer
Imagine being able to take a digital photograph by making the shape of a picture frame in the air with your hands, or dialling a phone number by simply tapping your palm with a finger. Or even navigating your way around a city by projecting a map onto the nearest wall, then using it as a touch scree More...
There is a race to develop renewable, clean and carbon-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels. With a few exceptions, the initiative is with small start-up companies rather than the petrochemical giants. But these new companies have some of the world's leading researchers on their boards. And they ar More...
NEW Modelling Nature Deadly Machines
These exquisite images are 3-D models of viruses at near-atomic resolution. They are constructed from real data captured by high- powered microscopes and processed by computers running specialised software. Because these 'virtual viruses' can be manipulated in ways that real viruses cannot as they c More...