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The industrial robot revolution

One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

By Sandra Gittlen | 20 February, 2012 22:25

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, health care, industry verticals, manufacturing, NASA, robots

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime: The Rolls-Royce of Android tablets

Watch out, Android tablets: There's a new king in town.

By JR Raphael | 03 December, 2011 10:56

Tags: Asustek Computer, hardware systems, tablets

Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

Tags: data centres, green IT, HP, HP POD, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Triforce Services, Verb IT

10 Apollo-era technologies used today

It's been 40 years since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched into space in Apollo 11, with the historic moon landing occurring four days later.

By Keith Shaw | 31 July, 2009 17:32

Tags: NASA, space

Robots improve safety, efficiency at Thai hospital

A Thai hospital famous for medical tourism and celebrated for its use of new technologies is turning to robotics to become more efficient and improve patient safety.

By Dan Nystedt | 15 May, 2009 06:44

Tags: e-health, robots

View from space: Satellite farming for greener pastures

Making the most of natural resources of farms is critical in today’s environment, where rainfalls are becoming ever so scarce.

By Kathryn Edwards | 29 April, 2009 14:22

Tags: farming, NASA, satellite, agriculture

In pictures: 30 years of Star Wars technology

Past and present: how 30 years of Star Wars imagination changed technology forever. During the next four months Sydney's Powerhouse Museum is playing host to one of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia combined with real-life examples of how such technology is being applied for business and social advancement.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 December, 2008 15:05

Tags: movies, starwars

May the Force be with IT

If you saw the first Star Wars film in 1978 you would have been dazzled by the awe inspiring technology the protagonists took for granted. 30 years later and many of the film's forward-looking ideas – from videoconferencing and mobile communications to robotics and bionics – are being used in our daily lives. During the next four months Sydney's Powerhouse Museum is playing host to one of the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia combined with real-life examples of how such technology is being applied for business and social advancement.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 December, 2008 09:35

Tags: exhibitions, powerhouse museum, starwars

10 Microsoft research projects

Innovation is not just about cool new products. In technology, the best ideas require a) really smart people and b) lots of funding. For the past 33 years, Microsoft has had both in spades.

By John Brandon | 02 December, 2008 10:09

Tags: microsoft research

NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products

Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.

By Sharon Gaudin | 18 November, 2008 09:02

Tags: chips, NASA, popular science, robotics, software

E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

By Todd R. Weiss | 06 November, 2008 08:04

Tags: Barack Obama, e-voting, US election

The computer, once a tool for scientists, is becoming a collaborator

Computer science -- it's not just about hardware and software anymore.

By Gary Anthes | 28 October, 2008 08:09

Tags: desktop pcs, hardware systems, popular science

Pimp your ride: Cool car technology

High-tech rides

Highlights from CEATEC 2008

Sights and sounds from Japan's cutting-edge IT and electronics comprehensive exhibition

By Network World staff | 03 October, 2008 11:31

Tags: ceatec 2008

Happy 50th Birthday Integrated Circuit

IC grows up by growing smaller

Beyond batteries: Long-lasting fuel cells are the future

Whether you're talking on a mobile phone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it's a good bet that the device's battery won't last as long as you'd like. However, that will change over the next few years, as fuel cells designed to power mobile gear start to become common.

Beeps, blips and IT: Making sense of sensor data

It's no exaggeration to say the '00s have been the decade when the electronic sensor left the factory floor and went, well, everywhere.

The world’s fastest supercomputer

IBM, Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier.

NASA: 'Extreme programming' controls Mars Lander robot

Scooping up soil samples and searching for elements that could support life on Mars isn't just an adventure for the Mars Lander and the robotic arm doing the scooping.

Babbage's Difference Engine up close

Babbage's Difference Engine goes on display in the US.