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Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air

Intel's secret weapon: Fresh airThermal is betterThere is a better way. Use the ground to cool the system there won't be any dust or a possibility of faulty equipment with this type of air conditioning. The warmer air is piped into the ground returning as cool air. ...

Tags: Fresh Air, Intel Corp., secret weapon, chip

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Ice-powered air conditioner could cut costs

Ice-powered air conditioner could cut costsice acawsome idea but what is the costIceCoolDual Ecoality Economic and EcologicalSmart companies that are taking ecological and economic practicality into account will be on the forefront of future technologies. Utilizing utility services during times when demand is low or a limited is an...

Tags: air conditioner, humidity, ice

Discussion threads 2006-08-01

Intel releases ruggedized laptop for India

Newsfactor.com reports that Intel has launched a platform for ruggedized PCs in remote, equatorial environments. The Community PC is a key part of Intel's Jagruti project for rural India. Jagruti means "awakening" in Sanskrit. [W]eather conditions -- heat, dust, and humidity -- and unreliable power sources can...

Tags: PC, kiosk, Intel Corp., humidity

Blog posts 2006-03-30

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Motorola i365 - black (Nextel)

If there ever was a Nextel phone, the Motorola i365 would be it. Big, burly, and bulky, the i365 looks as if it could withstand just about anything. Make no mistake: this is a serious phone for making voice and push-to-talk PTT calls. There's no camera or music player, and...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Inc., I365, phone, Nextel Communications Inc., Motorola i365

Product reviews 2008-09-25

Using tree power to prevent forest fires?

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT think it's possible to use the energy generated by trees to power a network of wireless sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. These sensors are equipped with off-the-shelf batteries that can be slowly recharged using electricity generated by the trees themselves. 'The...

Tags: Researcher, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sensor, Tree, Mershin, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air

Outside air blows hot, cold and dusty, but it cools just as well in datacenters as expensive air conditioning, according to Intel. Fresh air could save millions in datacenter cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. ...

Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, datacenter, cooling, energy

News items 2008-09-19

How to archive on disk drives

How to archive on disk drivesDo you have some references to backup your claim?I am curious, do you have any references to backup your claims? 12 months?I have never heard of this before and interested to see the research.RE: How to archive on disk driveswell it is known that...

Tags: NEW Drives, disk drive, disk, FireWire, tape

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D

MeteoSwiss, the Switzerland's National Weather service, is using a new system to build 3D maps of Swiss skies. This LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging weather measurement system has been developed at the Lausanne-based Federal Institute of Technology EPFL. According to EPFL, this new system will be able to provide real-time...

Tags: 3D, Laser, MeteoSwiss, LIDAR, EPFL, Sales Force Management, Sales, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-27

HP Pavilion dv5-1015nr

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.As a back-to-school laptop, the HP Pavilion dv5-1015nr is overkill, unless, perhaps, you've managed to squeeze a large LCD in your dorm room or pooled funds with...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, HP Pavilion, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-08-20

HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr

Note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr is a slightly more powerful version of the Pavilion dv5-1002nr system we reviewed earlier this month, providing a bit more processing power, more memory,...

Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-08-19

HP Pavilion dv5-1002nr

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5 is a member of the company's new Pavilion lineup, introduced in June. The ID of the product doesn't differ very much from previous...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2008-08-04

Ultrasone HFI-580

Unlike the Ultrasone HFI-2200s, which allow sound to be projected from the actual ear cups, the Ultrasone HFI-580s are a "closed-back" pair of headphones, so they hush outside noise, which prevents the headphone's sound from being heard by other people around you. That's good, except that a lot of closed-back...

Tags: HFI-2200, headphone, Ultrasone HFI-580s, Ultrasone HFI-580

Product reviews 2008-07-28

Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.

OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-16

IBM lays claim to 'greenest' data center title, at least here in North America

OK, by the time this next week is out, you will be as weary as I am of all the "greenest" "more energy-efficient" data centers ever built news that I will report. The good news is that no matter WHICH claim to be the greenest is true, there is some...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Can we trust our GPS devices?

In recent years, we have become increasingly dependent on applications using the Global Positioning System GPS, such as railway control, highway traffic management, emergency response or commercial aviation. But in a very short news release, the American Geophysical Union AGU warns us that we can't always trust our GPS gadgets...

Tags: Satellite, Occultation, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-10

A wall's being built along the northern border of the U.S.

NOAA map of the Great Lakes Basin. And this isn't a wall promulgated by Homeland Security. It's not about people trying to get into the U.S. No this wall is aimed at keeping some states from getting resources that other states have. ...

Tags: Lake, State, Water, Wall, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Polar robots to explore the Arctic

It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...

Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Photos: Furnishings with a future

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a showcase for modern design, attracted its fair share of tech-oriented, futuristic, and energy-saving devices.The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which took place last week in New York, is a showcase for modern design. More than 600 exhibitors displayed contemporary furniture, flooring, lighting, and wall coverings....

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Showcase, Lamp, Photograph, Seat, LED Light, That', Engineering, Construction, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-27

Buses as mobile sensing platforms?

According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road hazards. The 3.83 million euro EU-funded MORYNE project was completed in March 2008 with a test in Berlin, Germany. During this test, the researchers...

Tags: Mobile, Sensor, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-26

NASA's lunar breathing system

When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...

Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-08