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- Apple's new iMac is clad in aluminum and glass; multimedia optimized (Apple's new iMac is clad in aluminum and glass; multimedia optimized)
- No Blu-ray and Cursed Glossy ScreenThank you AGAIN Steve Jobs for saving my hard-earned money for me. When you can FINALLY get around to full Blu-ray implementation and matte screens for pros who can't stand reflections, CALL me. I've got $10,000+ for you.Until then, kiss my moolah good-bye. I'm sticking...
- Tags: Processors, aluminum, Apple iMac, multimedia, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matter (Gallery: Sneak peeks at 8 emerging technologies)
- Transparent aluminumHow do you know he dinna invent the thing? ;-)Boy, it didn't take long for someone ...... to pick up on the reference from Star Trek IV! I'd bet that the researchers at Oxford knew the reference when they started their work.RE: Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it...
- Tags: aluminum, transparent aluminum
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Apple declares its environmental credentials
- Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...
- Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matter
- Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matterSo I guess...We are not quite to the star trek level of using transparent aluminum to replace all our glass... dang...pic or it didn't happen! ntntI guess they can be paid in "femto-dollars"?What is next .... military "intelligence"?Cool! They can...
- Tags: aluminum, transparent aluminum
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matter
- Oxford scientists claim to have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. The substance is nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and is the latest addition to a growing list of exotic states of matter. Crossing...
- Tags: Laser, University Of Oxford, Aluminum, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing
- Iceland is in a bit of trouble these days, its economy collapsed last year when its three largest banks failed. And so now it is being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and trying to get its economy on an even keel. One of Iceland's most...
- Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Aluminum, Iceland, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail market share grows from single digits to 17.6% From 15 -...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Graphics, Aluminum, GPU, Steve, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Purported aluminum MacBook leak video
- Unlike previous blurry pictures of the new MacBooks, there's a new video of Tuesday's upcoming MacBook revision. It's very clear in spots and, if real, provides new angles at the unannounced machine. The video ("New Aluminum MacBook Ver. 1") clocks in at about 2 minutes and takes...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Video, Aluminum, Power Button, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminumThat is patentable?This is getting ridiculous. Companies have been fabricating all types of items and enclosures out of "bricks" for years.How is this really unique in any way? Becuase it is a laptop enclosure?Does not sound cheapThis news does not...
- Tags: Notebooks, Digital music, Digital media, Machining, Apple Inc., aluminum, laptop computer, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are ZDNet's 10 favorite items from the past week, including the 20-inch iMac, a new Maserati, and an external drive made of bamboo and recycled aluminum. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Aluminum, Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-18
- 'World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive' released
- Released today and draped in bamboo and aluminum casing, Fabrik's SimpleTech [re]drive claims its title as "World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive." Why? Well, for starters, it's a low power hard drive with an energy star power adapter and lack of fan (the aluminum...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Aluminum, Fabrik, Backups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Gallery: Create your own black iPhone
- It's going to be at least a few more weeks before we can buy a 3G iPhone, which reportedly will have some sort of black treatment to the rear panel. In the mean time I took it upon myself to create my own. 1. Source the part...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Aluminum, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, iFixIt, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- New MacBook enclosures? It's about time
- Am I the only one that doesn't like the look of the white MacBook enclosure? It's not as bad looking as the original clamshell iBook you know the one but it's entirely unprofessional looking IMHO. Apple knows that a white notebook is ugly and released a similarly configured...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Aluminum, Hardware, MacBook Industrial Design, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Elevate your MacBook
- Elevate your MacBookSecond vote for the mStandI recently purchased an mStand. It is more expensive than some other stands, but what I like about it is that it has a lip on the front to keep the computer from sliding off. Others rely on friction, and as the...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, mStand, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Diamonds are jet engines' best friends
- You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier coatings TBCs, they operate at very high temperatures. When a sand storm hits a blade, grains...
- Tags: Turbine, Glass, Ohio State University, Aluminum, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Green-walling with patented new tech
- I had a serious talk with the chief of Serious Materials. And the company promises some serious energy savings with their new products. But in my talk with CEO Kevin Surace I hit a green wall on one topic: how do they make this stuff? ...
- Tags: Window, Product, Aluminum, Kevin Surace, Construction, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- MacBook Air: Observations on its technical note
- MacBook Air: Observations on its technical noteI don't see this as innovativeSure, it's thin. It's [i]very[/i] thin. It's [i]very[/i], [i][b]very[/b][/i] thin. But so what? How often do you really need to mail a laptop in a manila envelope, or slip one under a locked door? ...
- Tags: Notebooks, aluminum, MacBook Air, MBA, technical note, Apple MacBook, notebook, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- noax Industrial PCs Document the Operation of Semi-Finished Aluminum Extrusion Products
- When Marcus Bauereiss takes his visitors through the Aluminium Rheinfelden plant in Germany, one is reminded of early twentieth century, industrial plants. The hall contains not only smelting and casting furnaces, but also a noax Stainless Steel IPC S15 which is used by the operators to determine the origin of...
- Tags: PC, Aluminum, Hall, Scanners, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals
- Case studies 2008-01-25
- Proporta's Alu-Leather Nokia N800 provides good protection and functionality
- I thoroughly enjoy using the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and think the form factor is perfect for the intended purposes. With two SD card slots providing you with lots of opportunities for storage capacity, you can also use your N800 as a video playing device. In the past my wrists...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Bracket, Groove, Aluminum, Proporta, Proporta Alu-Leather Case, Alu-Leather Case, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- 1967 discovery at IBM may be about to pay off
- The original discovery was made forty years ago by a young researcher at IBM. Now he's leading a team of researchers at Purdue who seem to be on the brink of an energy wonderland. Easy-to-produce hydrogen. Produced on site, on demand. Cheaply. ...
- Tags: Hydrogen, Aluminum, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
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