Bell Labs throws open the doors to its research
The Alcatel-Lucent R&D team shows off its latest projects, including how it has married two types of alternative energy to power mobile masts
The Alcatel-Lucent R&D team shows off its latest projects, including how it has married two types of alternative energy to power mobile masts
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
To shrink its carbon footprint...
It's that time of year when the rain and wind impact our outside activities. The Apple iPad has thousands of applications and many are available for those of us working and playing in the outside environment. For coaches like myself, we need some kind of case to protect our devices while also allowing us to manage our teams in practice and games. I took a look at three different rugged iPad 2 cases and have selected a case that fits my needs.
Waterfield Designs makes some of my favorite slip cases and I have them now for my MacBook Pro, Kindle/REDFLY, and MSI Wind. The MSI Wind is a very popular netbook and Waterfield is known for quickly providing cases for the latest and greatest devices. They make cases for much more than just laptops too and I was sent a sample of a T-Mobile G1 slip case to check out.
ASUS just celebrated the first year of the "netbook" category of mobile computing devices and since they started it last year, the market has taken off with a wide choice of netbooks today. I had the chance to try out the MSI Wind for a couple of weeks and was so impressed that I ordered one for myself.
The fresh air-cooled datacentre at Wynyard, built to take advantage of cold winds in the north-east, aims to save on power and costs
A torn thermal blanket was subjected to a supersonic wind tunnel to simulate what might happen during Space Shuttle Discovery's return to Earth.
An air-quality management district in Southern California offers this leaf blower at a discount in exchange for older, noisier models.
An air-quality management district in Southern California offers this leaf blower at a discount in exchange for older, noisier models.