Wearable computers arrive at Internet World
News Futuristic wearable technology could hold the key to the survival of the human race in an age dominated by technology. That's the outlandish claim made by Alex Lightman, Co-Founder and CEO of futuristic company Charmed Technology ahead of Britain's...
[May 23, 2000, 8:26]
Major smartphone worm 'by 2007'
Talkback THE FUTURISTIC VISION The law must have a "futuristic vision" in its present application. Thus, the futuristic vision is the need of the hour. The menace created by technology cannot be tackled by legal recourse alone but it requires a techno-legal...
[June 23, 2005, 8:58]
Success eludes mobile banking
News This time last year, all the high street banks were vying with one another to roll out their mobile Internet plans, partnering with mobile network operators and making futuristic announcements. Last spring, in the wake of a massive hype campaign...
[March 28, 2001, 15:49]
HP introduces new chip mould
News One of HP's more futuristic ideas is the crossbar latch, which could allow lattices of wires connected by molecules to perform calculations. The crossbar latch and other futuristic circuits, Williams said, were made by the imprint lithography...
[May 2, 2007, 10:38]
Worthless- good pictures but the technology already exists
Talkback What I find really scary is that the general population will see the introduction of this technology and believe that they are receiving futuristic technology after being told that it has taken 7 years to design.
[March 1, 2008, 16:37]
New Voice in Healthcare: Speech-recognition software offers productivity boost via efficiencies to workflow at point-of-care (PoC)
White Papers Speech recognition might have the stigma of a futuristic technology, or somehow not ready for prime time for some. Today healthcare practitioners are depending on their own small technology miracles to enable a better quality of care.
[May 1, 2009, 10:50]
Dark Sun
Downloads A fantastic world marked by an intriguing mix of psionic magic and futuristic technology, the world of Ackeron is epic in scale, and will offer the most dedicated players many weeks of game play. A vast new role-playing game from the makers of Dark...
[December 15, 2000, 6:00]
Five years ago: Intel wants a Pentium in every car
News This is not a futuristic concept. In a press release sent out last Friday, the firm detailed plans to put PC technology into vehicles for communications, entertainment, emergency and navigation systems.
[October 19, 2001, 8:30]
Sun's Jini gets new lease of life
News Sun Microsystems says its much-hyped Jini software is finding a new use in nuts-and-bolts business applications, rather than in networks of futuristic consumer gadgets as the company originally intended.
[May 12, 2003, 11:48]
Infighting unravels Web services
News Web services, an umbrella term for a set of programming standards that allows disparate systems to exchange information easily, hasn't lived up to early hype as the underpinning for futuristic online-retail scenarios and for building-block...
[July 18, 2003, 8:37]
Gates to invest £130m in Cambridge students
News At its Cambridge research facility, Microsoft is developing such futuristic technologies as intelligent computer systems and wearable computing. This isn't Gates' first investment in the region: Microsoft has a research facility in Cambridge and...
[May 23, 2000, 11:47]
Microsoft Wave has ups and downs
Blog What the company needs is a showcase, crisp and futuristic but warm and approachable, that encapsulates everything the company wants to say about how it's inventing tomorrow with stuff you can get today.
[July 28, 2009, 7:36]
Silicon Paradise? Techies get new offer
News Wouldn't you, after a long day at work, love to unwind at an ice-rink, stroll along the meandering sidewalks, shop for groceries leisurely, and then walk over to your plush, hi-tech home, built under giant futuristic domes.
[February 2, 2001, 9:39]
Barnes & Noble pulps e-books
News The more futuristic vision is that you can carry the book around," he said. Since then, however, analysts said the format has largely disappointed both in terms of sales and in the technology used to access them.
[September 10, 2003, 8:45]
Intel gives a peek at future PC designs
News Their design -- called Silicon Bonsai -- is a cross between a lamp tree and a futuristic kiosk, and brings together a Pentium III processor, 15-inch flat-panel display, and a variety of communications ports while taking up very little floor space.
[February 25, 1999, 9:34]
Intel to unveil nanotech plans
News To date, the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant has largely been a sceptic when it comes to carbon nanotubes and many other futuristic chip technologies, but that fits a pattern. When IBM first released silicon-on-insulator technology, an...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
Spintronic CPUs at least 10 years away, says Intel
News The comments followed a futuristic keynote, in which Kahn detailed what humans could do to make computers smarter, perhaps heading towards a Terminator-like reality where computers outperformed their human counterparts.
[October 22, 2008, 11:17]
Intel touts month-long battery life for mobiles
News Ron Smith, vice president and general manager of Intel's Wireless Computing and Communications Group, predicted the process would enable such futuristic form factors as wearable computers and video watch phones.
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Justin Rattner, who's in charge of R&D, sets the tone at the keynote by announcing that when he first heard of Radio Free Intel - Gelsinger's futuristic idea of having every chip with built-in radio networking - he thought "Boy, we've got our...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
W3C advances Semantic Web drafts
News In order to counter these images of the Semantic Web as something too futuristic or eccentric, the W3C has scheduled several evangelical events. Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's...
[April 8, 2003, 14:55]



