INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
General Electric: GE Bellows Out Piezo DCJ as Answer to What’s Cool for Laptops

General Electric's Dual Piezoelectric Cooling Jets (DCJ) could literally be the next cool thing in laptops & tablets by the year 2014.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Calxeda Low-Power ARM-Based Servers Mean Datacenter Savings: Austin Technology

Calxeda's innovations are aimed at increasing density of datacenter computer resources while markedly reducing the need for power, space, and cooling.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
USB PD – Power Delivery Standard: You’ll Get a Charge Out of This

According to two of the USB Power Delivery specification developers, instead of one size fits all, it will be "one USB cable does it all".

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Raspberry Pi Turbo Mode Adds 50% More Rockin’ With Overclockin’ Under Warranty

Eben Upton, the founder of the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, has turned up the sizzle under warranty, and at no additional charge.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
3 Slices of Raspberry Pi: A Supercomputer, Board Revision 2.0 PCB, & Now Made in the UK

The words Lego toy blocks, supercomputers, & raspberries do not typically fit into the same sentence, unless one is thinking "outside of the box".

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
HGST’s Helium-Filled Hard-Disk Drives (HDDs) Are Not Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Helium-filled HDDs will sharply reduce costs for data-centers, with substantial improvements in cost-per-terabyte (TB), TB-per-square-foot, TB-per-system-weight, and watt-per-TB.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
KeyView Smartype Keyboard With Display Screen – Here’s Lookin’ at It

The concept is not rocket-science, but will almost certainly find a core group of PC users that need, or just want the features offered.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Switch LED Bulb With Liquid Cooling System Emulates Incandescent Bulbs

Electrically non-conductive, food-grade, non-toxic, non-staining; and those are terms describing Switch Lighting company's LED "LQD Cooling System".

 

DELL
Dell Computers Assisted Analysis for Mars Rover Curiosity Landing

When the ultimate wireless, peripheral, mobile gadget landed on Mars, August 5, 2012, two clusters of Dell's PowerEdge servers were there in spirit, or at least in the spirit of data.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
$35 Raspberry Pi Linux Computer – Random Slices & Intel’s Nuke NUC?

Businesses, schools, & universities can deploy entire fleets of desktops for a small fraction of the price of traditional PCs.

 

AMD
Intel’s Thunderbolt vs AMD’s Lightning Bolt or Just an Open Source Standard?

Don't ever think for even a minute that the best technologies always win. They frequently don't. A gorilla at the playground can often beat-up the smaller, but very intelligent so-called "nerd". Intel may know their Thunderbolt will fade from the scene in the same way that FireWire has diminished, but it may still be used to keep the smaller "nerd" from getting a decent meal at the cafeteria. Right about now AMD could really use a good, hot meal.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Bug-A-Salt Killer Hardware – Yes it WOULD Hurt a Fly – Frogs Love It

“A man's got to do what a man's got to do.” "Out here, due process is a bullet." --- John Wayne

 

INTEL
Intel, ASML Semiconductor Technology – Betting a Wafer Wager, the Chips are Down

The chips are down on a wafer wager, & Intel is betting on the future arriving a bit ahead of schedule.

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
World’s Thinnest Laptop, Ultrabook, Notebook PC – 15 Minutes of Fame for the Acer Aspire S5 & Samsung Series 9

If you want this prescription, when the doctor says "cough", just cough-up US-$1,400. The Acer Aspire S5 has already taken its magic-marketing pill.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Sandia Cooler Air Bearing Heat-Sink-Impeller is Quiet & Dust-Immune – Expect Much Faster CPUs

The Sandia Cooler air bearing heat-sink-impeller will probably bring much faster, quieter, & cooler computers to consumers in the near future.