Feature: BETT 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Villa81 headed over to BETT, the top dog in educational technology trade shows. Samsung, Ricoh, and O2 were among the exhibitors at the event.
BETT concludes on the 16th of January.
Review: Toshiba NB200
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Toshiba’s latest netbook, the NB200, arrived at Villa81 a couple of weeks back. We gave it a thorough examination to see how it fared against other models currently on the market.
Verdict: 5 out of 10. On balance it’s bang on average.
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Feature: Triple Play Lab
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Villa81 visited the Triple Play Lab in Munich. The operation, focusing on developing technology in the triple play field, focusing on data, voice and video content. We had a look at the work going on at the facility where 16 companies are collaborating.
For more information on the Triple Play Lab, check out the alliance’s website.
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Feature: UCD and Siemens develop a robot boat
Thursday, June 4th, 2009In the week of a new Terminator film being launched, Villa81 got a look at a boat that could be a pre-cursor to a real life Skynet. The Siemens Autonomous Sailboat is thankfully being designed for purposes much more beneficial than the destruction of humanity.
UCD and Siemens hope to hold the first test of the [...]
Feature: Imagine Cup Irish final
Friday, May 1st, 2009Students from across Ireland gathered at the Science Gallery in Trinity on Thursday to battle it out to become Irish champions of the Imagine Cup. After the morning session the final three were selected and our cameras were on hand to capture all the action.
Trinity Sight will represent Ireland at the finals of the Imagine [...]
Review: Lenovo Thinkpad SL500
Monday, February 9th, 2009Lenovo gave us their Thinkpad SL500 for a test run. Given our past experience with Lenovo devices that was quite the brave move on their part.
It’s a solid device but nothing special. The SL500 is serviceable and above average but I won’t be rushing out to get one all the same. It’s short of the [...]