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Whenever you leave your home for a business trip, a laptop (or notebook) is a mandatory accessory. However, most users also pack other devices as well, such as a portable MP3 player, portable printer or projector, or any other accessory that's powered via USB. So, how to accommodate all of these things when you&... |
9 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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The summer is here, the weather is getting hotter and you've already had to switch on the A/C - however, with the recent surge of all prices including electricity and... well, everything else, saving energy has become not so much a trend, as a must for most of us. And given that we're headed for a very hot ... |
5 June 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Wireless power transmission was first demonstrated as a viable way to transmit electric energy over long distances between electric and electronic devices by Nicola Tesla during the early 1900s at the Colorado Springs experiment station, when he remotely powered a set of lights in the ground. Tesla's idea was in... |
20 May 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Radial engines became widely popular during the World War II and have been mostly used to power the propellers of airplanes such as the B-25 and the B-17 bombers, or even commercial airplanes like the DC-3. Basically, a radial engine is similar to gasoline internal combustion engines, only that the pistons are dispos... |
16 May 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Yesterday MacBook owners were (hopefully) glad to hear that someone managed to roll out an external cooler for their laptops, helping reduce heat to improve system performance and comfortability. Today, the guys at Quickertek have something for MacBook Air owners, too: a MacBook Air External Battery which, according ... |
14 May 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Why does money make one feel powerful? The answer to this question can be found in that profit and power have the same brain nucleus: the striatum, that is already associated with reward. These are the results of brain-scanning researches, published in the journal Neuron, for the first time looking for a connection m... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Gonorrhea, together with syphilis and HIV, make a "love triangle" of the most famous sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, gonorrhea, caused by the Neisseria gonorhoeae bacterium, affects 62 million people, aged mainly 15 to 29, are represents world's second most widespread STDs after the infection with Chlamyd... |
15 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Biologically, men are designed to be more active sexually, because of the higher quantity of testosterone in their bodies. And except some remote cultures, like in Tibet or Southern India, where polyandry (a woman can have several husbands) is practiced, this does happen. But the annual Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global ... |
8 March 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Check this! Researchers over at Georgia Institute of Technology say that T-shirts with built-in nanotechnology may soon power up your mp3 player. Imagine not depending on power sockets at home or at work to power up your iPod! As it always goes, a mechanical process converts into energy, and this time it's the m... |
15 February 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Is your boss a butt-head? In this case, don't try to change this, at least as long as he/she feels powerful, as revealed by a new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "Powerful people have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their thoughts are positive or negative tow... |
15 February 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Everyone on the web has been both trash-talking and praising the MacBook Air for its features and what it stands for. The Air's battery makes up for a lot of the negative aspects surrounding it, such as the fact that Air owners need to have it sent in for a replacement, and that it doesn't last half as long... |
7 February 2008
06:36 GMT |
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One of the most unsatisfying aspects concerning the MacBook Air is, without a doubt, the lack of a user-replaceable battery. Of course, that can change, since AppleInsider claims that you don't need any special tools (or knowledge) to do the swapping yourself.More than that, it can be done in a matter of minutes... |
24 January 2008
09:06 GMT |
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For millennia, people had been making ships of wood. Than, around 1790, the first iron ship was made. People thought iron would sink, as it is denser than the wood. But the floating capacity depends on the ratio between weight and volume. No matter the weight of a ship, it will float if its volume is large enough. A ... |
23 January 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Now we know why even Ronaldinho or Shaq can miss easy shots: spontaneous fluctuations of brain's electrical activity are to blame. A team at Washington University, in Missouri, US, discovered that fluctuations in the brain activity made subjects to subconsciously exert a little less physical power when pushing a... |
10 October 2007
05:09 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group just announced the launch of a new power supply unit, the OCZ Technology Group, which is now readily available from the online store PC Power & Cooling. The new power supply unit is aimed at providing users with a very strong and durable solution for those power users that require industrial grad... |
3 October 2007
06:23 GMT |
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High quality, high output power supply units sell very well these days as more and more computer users are going for extreme hardware setups that need a lot of power in order to operate in a stable manner. As the demand for more customized and more complex power supply units rises, companies like Silverstone are dete... |
26 September 2007
04:09 GMT |
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HIPER is one of the computer hardware companies that's specialized in power supply units with high efficiency ratings and multiple options and protection systems. As the HIPER built PSUs, the shorthand for power supply units, are aimed at the high end computer systems with a lot of energy requirements, the compa... |
21 August 2007
11:19 GMT |
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In a reality flooded by Harry Potter and science fiction movies, levitation has turned into a fact. The same physicists that showed last year that invisibility cloaks are feasible, now have turned to levitation. The team at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, has made an 'incredible levitation effects' ... |
20 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A research team from the German Fraunhofer Institute developed an electronic system that is capable of working with no apparent power source apart from the energy generated by the human body. This kind of power generating system could have a lot of applications in the mobile computing industry alone, where battery li... |
20 August 2007
11:34 GMT |
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The Universal Serial Bus or USB for short is a very popular port today as there are maybe a million computer hardware parts that connect to the host system using it. Among those parts, or better said peripherals, there are mice, keyboards, external storage devices, webcams flash memory sticks and so on. The USB port ... |
18 August 2007
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As the date for the release of the world's first native quad core processing unit approaches, a number of less than pleasant details surface. As the official launch date is less than a month away, it looks quite improbable that out of the box fixes that do not need the user's interventions for those problem... |
16 August 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Among the most important energy consumers in the whole IT industry, the data center has a very special and near the top place, their projected energy consumption being said to double until 2011. So a new set of specifications and guidelines have been drawn up in an attempt to minimize energy waste and electricity bil... |
11 August 2007
06:39 GMT |
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As the world takes heed of the global warnings more and more industries are turning around searching for additional technologies that could boost energy savings and minimize power consumption while maintaining a decent level of efficiency. One such technology, almost forgotten, that has now a new field day is Zigbee,... |
10 August 2007
10:08 GMT |
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The Green Grid is an association of several high-tech companies, most of which are active in the computer hardware manufacturing segment, that was created as a group that could lay the base for industry wide accepted practices, metrics and technologies that should help improve data center energy efficiency.Since its ... |
10 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Most hardware manufacturers and vendors, from processors to hard disk drives manufacturers, are claiming that their products are going green, which means better energy efficiency while keeping performance at a high level. While this may very well be the truth, the high power to performance ratios are not enough to st... |
6 August 2007
05:42 GMT |
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There is a trend nowadays, even among the hardcore, performance-centered and high-end hardware companies, to release "green" or at least a little "greener" products. Corsair is well known for its high performance and good overclocking capabilities of its computer memory modules. What few know is that Corsair has some... |
2 August 2007
03:46 GMT |
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With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ft) long and up to 3.4 tons heavy, the white shark hunts from fish (including other sharks) to seals and dolphins. They can suddenly attack swimmers, surfers or boats, sinking them, but humans do not seem to represent their favorite dish. They bite once and release the ... |
1 August 2007
14:31 GMT |
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The power supply units( PSU for short) manufacturer Hiper released a range of PSUs that have four USB ports in the back of the unit. For those users that have few or no external USB ports this may come as a blessing, but the entire power supply unit, named Type R II, is rated at an impressive 770W of output power. As... |
1 August 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Every computer needs a power supply unit and the better the PSU the more stable and reliable the system is. A good power supply unit also protects the computer's hardware components for the occasional power fluctuations, shocks and overvoltages. Another aspect of good and reliable power supply units is that, as ... |
1 August 2007
04:53 GMT |
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It looks as if the entire computer manufacturing industry is having a collective green "fit". It is not something really new, some power regulations were installed long ago, but not until now were they so closely observed and respected. Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of a greener and environment frien... |
26 July 2007
09:58 GMT |
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AMD just released is annual "Global Climate Protection Plan", in which the processor manufacturer underlines its work to reduce the power consumption and the development of additional power saving techniques that could be implemented in its processors. This trend to enable hardware power saving technologies inside AM... |
26 July 2007
08:28 GMT |
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The Pentagon opened up a web-based system for soliciting ideas on space-based solar power and it wants as many citizens as possible to participate to the quest for potential applications of the technology, according to one of the officials leading the effort.Although the idea isn't exactly new, it's the fi... |
26 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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American citizens are not very fond of nuclear powerplants, in fact, of anything that involves the word "nuclear." This is somewhat understandable considering that for half a century they lived with the constant threat of global nuclear war, caused by the arms race and constant showoffs from both the former Soviet U... |
24 July 2007
10:52 GMT |
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Let's see how the situation looks from above the battle field. Intel has a strong market share in its grasp thanks to a large number of products (processors, chipsets and so on) and a great marketing and advertising department. AMD on the other hand, is losing some market shares mainly because of a much more red... |
24 July 2007
04:16 GMT |
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I know many computer users who only shut down their systems only when yelled at. They claim that powering up again in the morning when they return to work is a nuisance, as they have to wait for the operating systems, network services and so on. So they simply leave their computer systems online, in full power mode ... |
19 July 2007
05:58 GMT |
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One of the most important components in a computer system and at the same time one of the least respected (probably because of the huge number of very cheap and poorly made Chinese computer cases that come bundled with PSUs) is the power source unit, also known as the PSU. Many problems may arise if a poor quality or... |
19 July 2007
05:26 GMT |
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What I'm talking about is NBC's new science-fiction serial drama that features people with super-powers. No, it's not "X-men" either, and definitely not anything like "The 4400", but whatever it is, it looks great. I was suspicious at first, reading the plot outline and thinking "hey, they did that alr... |
13 July 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Nuclear power plants contain most of the non-military radioactive material in the U.S. and with the latest support for the revival of nuclear energy, in order to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Initiative wants new ways of making that energy source as saf... |
2 July 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Harvesting solar energy is a clever way to make use of a clean and renewable fuel. You don't need to dig the ground for it, there are no pipes and powerplants, and best of all, it's ecological. Using the roof to produce electricity is a good idea, but many people don't want to use the inaesthetical an... |
21 June 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, two of the astronauts on board the International Space Station floated outside to work on the retraction of the starboard solar array. They helped fold up an old solar wing and to resurrect a rotating joint that will make the new pair of solar arrays follow the Sun.Last week, two Russian cosmonauts on bo... |
14 June 2007
05:38 GMT |
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Usually, when you refer to a company with the term "the" in front of its name, you're trying to underline its power and its importance in world history. The search giant is one of these companies and, although it is named only with the Google term, some people refer to it as "The Google". The first one was Georg... |
13 June 2007
09:41 GMT |
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Telefonica's office complex situated in Madrid has developed a building concept that is meant to save a great amount of energy. Their solution comes in the shape of solar panels mounted on the entire surface of the building.The need for saving energy and reducing pollution has pushed Telefonica into setting an e... |
5 June 2007
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Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at extremely low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field. They are thought to appear usually below -140 degrees Celsius. A team of researchers at Princeton University used a cus... |
1 June 2007
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Wind tunnels are research tools developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects. The fastest wind tunnels are called hypersonic wind tunnels and are designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15.The worl... |
31 May 2007
11:18 GMT |
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A new type of wireless power-transmission device has been created by a team of Japanese scientists. It's flat, thin, flexible and can be placed anywhere, like on walls and desks. It's able to deliver electricity to electronics devices standing near it without using conductive cables.Takao Someya, a scienti... |
28 May 2007
11:08 GMT |
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The most interesting automobile to hit the "market" of incredible prototypes that actually work is the BMW H2R Record Car. You wouldn't think a hydrogen car could do so much, but this is not just an electric car.She's a fine example of German craftsmanship combined with the latest technology in the field of... |
24 May 2007
11:21 GMT |
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New York City will be the first city to experiment a new solution against accidental or intentional blackouts and will become the testbed for a $39.3 million Department of Homeland Security project aiming to replace the existing power grid of the city with new superconductor cables."This is about Wall Street, this i... |
22 May 2007
10:34 GMT |
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What is the world's biggest internal combustion engine? Here are some clues: it's running on diesel and it's used to power the world's largest ships. The name is Wärtsilä RTA96-C and it's the largest piston engine in the world. The turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is manufactured by the... |
16 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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A new invention greatly increases the capacity of current parabolic solar collector systems of harnessing the Sun's energy. It's a mirror alignment measurement device that solves many of today's problems of this type of solar panels.The new technology is called Theoretical Overlay Photography (TOP) an... |
16 May 2007
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It's called MAN Takraf RB293 and it's the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history,making the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads look like a Volkswagen Beetle.Bucket-wheel excavators are heavy machines used in the mining industry and civil engineering. They are also som... |
15 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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