Photos: Devastating human impact of toxic technology waste

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Sep 24, 2009

A boy carries copper wiring that has had the plastic melted from it in a small fire. This burning of electrical components releases toxic chemicals into the environment.

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Photos: The best of CeBIT 2009

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Mar 9, 2009

Fiat has developed a new system that gives customers the insight they need to drive in more a sustainable way. ecoDrive processes driving data collected via Blue&Me, an in-car communications device developed by Microsoft. Users plug a standard USB drive into their car's Blue&Me port to gather

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UBS has a 16-foot-wide satellite on the roof which provides current weather statistics to the Energy Business. They also have two meterogolgists on staff to predict whether the weather will affect the energy market.

Photos: IBM Blue Ice supercomputer at Swansea

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Oct 31, 2008

Five DCV workstations and 4 CUBE displays provide the visualisation capabilities.

Rebuilding the oldest working computer in the world

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Sep 9, 2009

UKAEA is supporting the rebuild. Chief executive Norman Harrison said, “This computer is a tangible example of the UKAEA’s extraordinary achievements during the initial UK nuclear power programme. It demonstrates the groundbreaking science undertaken at Harwell, which continues to this day. I am

Photos: Award-winning, innovative product design of 2009

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Aug 17, 2009

Recycling old batteries is essential to avoid the toxic chemicals they contain leaching from landfill sites. The Energy Seed, designed by Sungwoo Park of <a href="http://english.kookmin.ac.kr/" target="ns">Kookmin University</a> and Sunhee Kim of <a href="http://neweng.cau.ac.kr/"

Photos: Toxic tech waste poisoning Africa

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Feb 19, 2009

The poorest people, often children, break apart TVs, mobile phones, game consoles and other electronic items that arrive in their tonnes across the developing world. With no safety measures, they are exposed to highly toxic chemicals, including mercury, which damages the brain; lead, which can

Photos: Reclaiming the night sky

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Oct 29, 2009

The effects of light pollution are clear in these two images taken at a dark site in northern Iran's Alborz mountain range (top) and in the city of Tehran, just 65 kilometres away (bottom). <br><br> At remote sites, 4000 or so stars are bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.

Photos: Best businesses on Twitter - What you need to know

Image  |  www.computerweekly.com | Nov 16, 2009

Lots of charities do well on the site – Twitter lends itself well to campaigning and charities have always had to work at getting their message out. <br><br>Greenpeace is particularly good because of the way it integrates its work into its Twitter stream. <br><br>When activists are sitting on top