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Predicting 2012 in technology »

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In 1900, John Watkins, an American engineer, imagined what life would be like in 2000. He speculated that "Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world” and "Man will see around the world. "Persons and things of all kinds will b...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Iain Whiteside | Read more »

New wristband monitors sun exposure »

An Edinburgh Napier University graduate has created a UV light-monitoring wristband that can help ensure people receive enough sunlight. After conducting a survey revealing that 50 per cent of children surveyed spent less than two hours per day outsid...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Caroline Nguyen | Read more »

Britain takes a bite of the poison Apple »

Ben Hughes

The Apple iPad is finally here. Or rather, it isn’t. Given all the attention it has attracted over the past couple of weeks you could be forgiven for thinking this was something you could go out and buy. But no, all those reviews are simply specu...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Ben Hughes | Read more »

Apple iPad: All the news that's unfit to print »

The eagerly anticipated iPad

“Honey, I shrunk Steve Jobs – but his iPhone stayed the same size.” Its detractors may have hit back against the hype, as Ben Hughes of the St Martin’s school of design suggests in this edition of The Journal, but possibilities ...

Tue 16 Feb 2010 | Read more »

Business leader launches student IT award »

IT Jobs for Graduates have teamed up with JP Morgan, to launch the Student IT Innovation Awards 2009, in a bid to find the entrepreneur who will come up with the next "techie" idea that could change the business world. The winner of the competition, w...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by John Hislop | Read more »

4G on the horizon »

Phone

UK and Chinese universities have united to produce the next generation in mobile technology. A science bridges award linking UK universities and Chinese universities and institutions, led by Heriot-Watt, is to work on new developments in high-speed, s...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

Pope speaks out about technology »

Pope Benedict XVI

Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office has revealed the Pope’s belief that modern technology is distracting us from our spirituality. This is not the first time that the Vatican has spoken out about the excesses of mo...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Emma Blinkhorn | Read more »

'Smart pill' to digitally medicate patients »

iPill

On Sunday 16 November, Dutch electronics giant Philips announced its new intelligent technology "iPill" at the opening of the annual American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). The "iPill", once swallowed, is designed to release the corr...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

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