Is it possible to run all your electronic gadgets - even your laptop - on renewable energy sources? PC Authority's eco-warrior Matthew Sparkes gets on his bike.

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Battery capacity has proven to be a serious barrier to true mobile computing. Tim Dean looks at how the technology is evolving.

Intel unloaded a swag of new Penryn-class CPUs at CES today. Zara Baxter explores the new platform and what it means for your PC.

Fuel cell power technology seems to hold great promise. We ask what fuel cells would be like to live with.

A solar charger for your mobile? Now that's smarts.

Toshiba’s resident portable computer visionary speaks about hardware design, Vista, and the future of notebook tech.

The biggest problem with modern robotics is not the mechanisms, its the intelligence behind the mechanisms. Matching the human sense of balance is a major challenge, for example. Enter cy

From webcasting to the DMCA to net neutrality - a list of top ten IT priorities for the new president.

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Even if the flexible, paper-thin screen is the undisputed killer app of display technology, it will never get out of the lab if its tied to present-day battery technology. Batteries have, its true, im

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

The reason why most plastics cant conduct electricity is because there are no free electrons available to produce a current. A typical polymer consists of a mass of long chain-like molecules (see The

We tour several of the leading tech research labs in the US to discover which 10 research projects could soon change the world

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David Fearon explains how to save energy and hassle by converting your old Windows XP PC to a virtual one that you can run on your Vista machine

Abort, retry, Investigate? One reader's battle with a known issue with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and Adobe Premier Elements 7

The HST (Hubble Space Telescope) was first conceived back in the 1940s, designed and built during the 1970s and 1980s, and finally launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on 25 April

In the final part of three, Jon Honeyball looks at the connectivity and security solutions of .NET. Were now into the final part of my three-part exposition on the future of the Microsoft

It’s important to choose a power supply that meets your needs. Here we show you what to look out for.