Cracking open the Iomega Zip drive 
Photos These once-popular drives gave many users their first taste of easy-to-use backup and storage media. But have you ever wondered what's inside? [04 Feb 2008]
Cracking open Apple's iBook G3
Photos The original clamshell iBook from Apple generated almost as much buzz in the IT world as the iPhone has recently. Mark Kaelin takes a look inside [25 Jan 2008]
Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC
Photos George Ou, technical director of ZDNet.com, talks through his decision to build his mother an all-in-one PC and LCD display [24 Jan 2008]
Cracking open the 1974 Altair 8800
Photos Follow step by step as vintage computer aficionado and collector Erik Klein carefully restores a 1974 Altair 8800 to working order [27 Nov 2007]
Software we have known and loved: Lotus Symphony 3
Photos IBM/Lotus recently released an office suite called Symphony — but it isn't the first to go by that name [21 Nov 2007]
Cracking open the Nabaztag Wi-Fi rabbit
Photos Intrigued by the idea of what was inside the plastic bunny with whirling ears and blinky lights, Mark Kaelin dug out his tools — and found a few surprises [15 Nov 2007]
'Geek pride' at the Vintage Computer Festival
Photos Industry veterans and computer hobbyists come together at California's Computer History Museum, to enjoy vintage computers, video games and gadgets [12 Nov 2007]
Driving the web revolution: The 'Internet Van'
Photos California's Computer History Museum is celebrating the 30th birthday of the first true internet connection by displaying the van in which it occurred [09 Nov 2007]
Old laptops transform the lives of Africa's blind
Photos USB sticks and donated laptops from UK businesses are allowing African students access to the previously closed world of higher education [20 Sep 2007]
Photos: HP's hardware graveyard
Photos Roseville, California is home to HP's huge recycling centre, where computer equipment, printing supplies, rechargeable batteries and other items go to die [26 Jul 2007]
Photos: Unfolding OpenStreetMap
Photos Images taken from the open-source application illustrate how information is collated to create a detailed map of an area [04 Jun 2007]
Photos: Emails they wish they'd never sent
Photos Ever clicked send then kicked yourself later? Share the pain of these public figures whose messages came back to haunt them [15 Dec 2006]
Photos: The technical history tour
Photo Join us on a whistlestop trip around the places where technological history was made [13 Dec 2006]
Low-cost PCs
Photo The $100 PC may be grabbing people's attention, but there are plenty of other inexpensive machines being used throughout the world. Here is a selection [16 Aug 2006]
Smashing India's language barriers
Photo India is a unique country with unique communication problems – no surprise in a country with more than a thousand languages [12 May 2006]
Cabling nightmares and their solutions
Photo A server room should be a neat and tidy place, but so often is not. We take a look at how to turn your nightmare of wires into something vaguely sensible [15 Nov 2005]
