The best video from CeBIT 2008

Business uses for Lord of the Rings AI software

The chief executive officer for Massive Software, the company that provided the AI software used in the fight scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies, discusses the robotics and business applications of the software [07 Mar 2008]

Data-centre power usage phones home

Ronald Timmermans from Methode Schleifenbauer explains how to measure power consumption throughout a data centre [07 Mar 2008]

Control software with brainwave patterns

University of Bremen researchers demonstrate technology that reads brainwaves to control software [07 Mar 2008]

Interacting with your PC in mid-air

Wolfgang Reiner from the Fraunhofer Institute shows how to move a cursor and manipulate images by pointing at them from metres away [07 Mar 2008]

The monitor that's serious about sleep

Dr Wolfgang Haid from Fujitsu Siemens demonstrates a monitor that uses no electricity at all when in standby mode [07 Mar 2008]

Biometrics technology that can read emotions

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]

2 Talkbacks

How the Eee PC beat even Asus's expectations

Steven Tien, director of market development at Asus, talks about the success of the Eee PC and the implications for the new model when Microsoft discontinues Windows XP in the summer [07 Mar 2008]

The individual approach to cooler servers

Marc Siggelkow of Brach and Moll shows off a cooling unit that wraps servers in their own environment to cut energy consumption [07 Mar 2008]

Thumbs-up for Windows Media Player

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]

Collaborating on green IT

Barbara Grimes of the Climate Savers Computing initiative explains how the high-level group hopes to make computing greener [07 Mar 2008]

Using telematics to manage a fleet of cars

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]

NextWindow enables giant multitouch screen

Microsoft is not the only company showing off multitouch technology. NextWindow's touch technology can fit screens up to 100 inches, and enables multitouch features [06 Mar 2008]

2 Talkbacks

The Linux-based car's next challenge

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

Hanson Robotics's Zeno robot may be a toy, but its sophisticated artificial intelligence is far from child's play [06 Mar 2008]