Who's the UK's IT Community Hero of the Year?
News Entries are now open for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, with a new category recognising achievements benefiting the IT community [30 Apr 2008]
British scientists create atom-thick transistor
News A team from the University of Manchester has managed to carve an electronic circuit out of graphene, a very thin carbon structure with huge implications for nanotechnology [21 Apr 2008]
Gartner: Seven IT challenges to change the world
News From self-charging devices to full gesture and speech recognition, analysts have mapped out the key tech challenges that could revolutionise business over the next 20 years [15 Apr 2008]
- 7 key challenges? - James B
- CIO or CTO? - Brian Murray
Xerox demonstrates reusable paper 
Video At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Xerox shows off a disappearing-ink technology that enables people to reuse a piece of paper [10 Apr 2008]
The best video from CeBIT 2008
Roundup CeBIT's 30-plus exhibition halls were packed with technology this year; we capture the best of it on video, from software controlled by brainwaves to a robot based on the same AI engine that drove the fight scenes in Lord of the Rings [07 Mar 2008]
Control software with brainwave patterns
Video University of Bremen researchers demonstrate technology that reads brainwaves to control software [07 Mar 2008]
Biometrics technology that can read emotions
Video The Fraunhofer Institute's intelligent-systems manager gives a demonstration of technology that can read a face and gauge whether a person is happy, sad, or angry [07 Mar 2008]
Thumbs-up for Windows Media Player
Video At CeBIT, Dr Frank Klefenz from the Fraunhofer Institute demonstrates how finger gesture filmed on a webcam can control Windows Media Player [07 Mar 2008]
Using telematics to manage a fleet of cars
Video At CeBIT, German firm IAV explains how it uses telematics to monitor the health of vehicles in a car fleet and help identify recurring problems, as well as tune engines on the go and communicate with emergency services [06 Mar 2008]
The Linux-based car's next challenge
Video Caroline is not just any old VW Passat; it has seven PCs monitoring its environment, making decisions and controlling it. Researcher Jörn Martern Wille talks about the tech and explains where it's headed [06 Mar 2008]
Zeno: The robot based on Lord of the Rings AI
Video Hanson Robotics's Zeno robot may be a toy, but its sophisticated artificial intelligence is far from child's play [06 Mar 2008]
The Linux car that drives itself 
Photos At the CeBIT 2008 technology show in Hanover, ZDNet.co.uk took a look inside Darpa Grand Challenge finalist Caroline — a car that doesn't need a driver [05 Mar 2008]
The best of CeBIT 2008: Day one
Roundup Europe's biggest IT show has already seen a keynote from Steve Ballmer and an update to the innovative Asus Eee PC [05 Mar 2008]
Cryogenics chilled systems at CeBIT
Photos Amid the talk of green and power-efficient computing at CeBIT this year, in some cases it is all about faster and cooler — and in one instance, that involves liquid nitrogen [04 Mar 2008]
Portable tech on show at CeBIT
Photos New hardware on show at CeBIT this year includes a Windows version of a low-power laptop and a notebook designed for airtravel [04 Mar 2008]
CeBIT: Europe's biggest IT show opens
News CeBIT 2008 kicks off this week in Hanover, Germany, and will include new exhibitions around green technology [03 Mar 2008]
Europe launches £2bn nanotech push
News A well-funded partnership between European governments, the EU, industry and academia will set up its offices in Brussels within months [26 Feb 2008]
Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights
News Catching a plane will one day be as easy as Tube or train travel today, according to a leading border security expert [22 Feb 2008]
On the floor at Macworld 2008
Photos Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled the ultraportable MacBook Air at the expo, while attendees enjoyed a range of Mac-related technology and gadgets [17 Jan 2008]
Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research
News De Montfort University and Missouri University are teaming up to improve quality of life for the elderly with a computational intelligence project [04 Jan 2008]
Auditors criticise EC over technology funding
News The European Court of Auditors has taken the Commission to task over its evaluation of technology research programmes from 1995 to 2013 [20 Dec 2007]
Intel Capital reveals prime tech for investment
News The chipmaker's investment arm has highlighted the five hottest technologies venture capitalists are looking to invest in [19 Dec 2007]
Tomorrow's tech at Microsoft Innovation Day
Photos A mirror that monitors blood pressure and a movement-reactive floor were among the emerging tech on display at the fourth Microsoft Innovation Day [06 Dec 2007]
Experts highlight six key technologies to watch
News The Council for Science and Technology has recommended certain technologies that should be in line for additional government funding [05 Dec 2007]
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Tech design with the future in mind
Q&A Don Norman, human-computer interaction expert and author, shares his insights into what designers and developers are doing right, what they're overlooking, and what the tech future may hold [27 Nov 2007]
