Interviews about Technology

This month's technology update looks at 'home-brew' technology and a step towards interactive, hands...

On the 7th of April 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched to orbit and survey Mars. It has supplied vital...

Writer of the DOS game Theme Park, Demis applies his programming techniques to understanding the mechanics of the human...

What's involved in computer research and can we make computers genuinely intelligent?

How the guys at Second Life build their virtual environment and why bots with artifical intelligence might be...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

A new surface material could heal it's own scratches simply by being left in the sun! Professor Marek Urban...

Diana O'Carroll meets Dr Chris Cox to find out how a mobile phone compresses data, and why we could soon be...

You may take your telephone for granted, but it all started this week in 1876...

Meera catches up with Kelvin Kemm for the latest news from South Africa, including unmanned aeroplanes transporting...

The world's first online music festival - Geek Pop, is dedicated to science inspired music - Vicky West explains...

After Dave had built a rudimentary telescope from a pair of magnifying lenses, we asked Dr Carolin Crawford for her...

Often, technology designed for space travel gives us benefits down here on Earth. This is one example of the opposite...

The universe surprised us recently when NASA's GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) discovered a new dwarf galaxy...

Symmetry is sexy, but just how sensitive to symmetry are we? Using 3D scanning, Dr William brown finds out how Meera...

Meera joins Chris Vallance and Mark Ward to discuss the Consumer Electronics Show, and what to expect in home...

Plants make it, bees collect it, and now Propolis could be protecting farmed fish from fungi. Meera spoke to Kelvin...

Porous Nanospheres could deliver drugs to exactly where they're needed - but we must make sure that the body can...

A new way of manufacturing LEDs could see household bills slashed, and even provide clean drinking water wherever it...

Building flexible electronics could enable us to make artificial limbs with feelings, or even implant electronics under...

A sheet of carbon one atom thick could read the entire human genome in just a few hours. Dr Henk Postma explains more...

Having a material which can tell you when it's cracked is one thing, but integrating it into existing systems is...

A car which silently repairs scratched paintwork, chipped windscreens or engine faults sounds fantastic, and may not be...

Window cleaners may be forced to join the unemployment line, as new technology lets the windows clean themselves...