A planned reduction of a Lincolnshire TV mast has prompted protests
It is more than 1,000ft high, but so unobtrusive that most people in the UK never even realised it existed, let alone that it held a European record. Now, Belmont Transmitting Station, one mile west of the quiet village of Donington on Bain, is about [...]
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Europe’s tallest structure to be cut down to size
22 June, 2009 – 00:00
Fantastic voyage: new-generation imaging heralds revolution in medical treatment
8 February, 2009 – 00:00
From a cluster of Chiltern villages, GE Healthcare is leading the way in detecting and treating diseases
For the lucky, a check-up at the GP consists of nothing more sophisticated than a blood-pressure cuff, an icy stethoscope and a jar to pee in. For those with bigger problems, it can involve medicine’s heavy artillery, from bedside [...]
Aegate steals a march in war against counterfeit drugs
23 November, 2008 – 00:00
Aegate, the drug authentication business, will move into Ireland in January, strengthening its position ahead of expected EU legislation to fight the growing threat of counterfeit drugs.
The beating heart of the hi-tech world in hospitals
1 June, 2008 – 00:00
The computerisation of the NHS is not on its sickbed – it’s alive and kicking, explains the boss of GE Healthcare
Nigel Mason is apologetic when he arrives at GE’s British head office in Berkeley Square, central London. This isn’t his building, explains the boss of GE Healthcare UK as we wait for security to sign [...]
Goggles return as TV and film go 3-D
13 April, 2008 – 10:42
A whole range of new films are being made as the new wave of 3D cinema allows such realism to be created on much lower budgets than in the past
Once 3D entertainment meant fumbling aroundwith a pair of multi-coloured spectacles that made you dizzy, before settling down in the cinema to watch a plotless film [...]
Now that’s reality TV: Samsung takes us into the next dimension
13 April, 2008 – 00:00
The Korean giant is going back to the future to create 3D vision that will propel golf balls from your screen
‘Fore!” When Tiger Woods smashes the ball straight for their heads, most people flinch – some duck – until the point-of-view pulls back to show trees hurtling past along the fairway. The simulacrum of the [...]
Bill Gates: The hi-tech future is now
6 January, 2008 – 00:00
It’s notoriously difficult to predict trends, as Bill Gates has discovered to his cost. But, as the Microsoft boss opens the Consumer Electronics Show, what should we be looking out for?
Gannon and Gage Swanston are already pioneers of the 21st-century media era at the tender ages of seven and four. When they visit friends’ homes, [...]
Wind-fuelled ’supergrid’ offers clean power to Europe
25 November, 2007 – 00:00
5,000-mile network could cut entire continent’s carbon output by a quarter
An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe’s CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
