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Thursday, 08 November 2007 08:03 |
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While your pumping your retirement money into your vehicle you will be able to have mapquest at your finger tips. This way you won't have to waste that black gold driving around lost. Google will be providing driections to landmarks, hotels, restaurants and hospitals. This service is made available due to specially made pumps that can connect to the internet by Gilbarco Veeder-Root. They will display a color screen that can help you find your way through the highways and byways. For nowspecific lcoations are only availb that are rpreselected by the gas station. There will be no ads on the maps but a coupon or special list beckoning people inside the stations to spend a couple bucks. Hpopefully in the near future they will provide a way to typre in locations for specific locations. Sounds good to me, when ever i ask i also get confaluded and confusing directions from locals.
[Source: Autoblog] |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:31 |
Square Trade Research has just completed a very valuable laptop analysis. There conclusion 1 in 3 laptops will fail over 3 years of ownership. 1 in 3 people, make sure you have good customer service because there is a 33% your going to have to use it. Square trade analyzed rates of over 30,000 laptops by 9 of the top companies. They compared netbook vs medium laptops vs high-end laptops. Another interesting fact netbook are 20% more unreliable then other laptops. Asus and Toshiba are the most reliable laptop brands. Check it out if your getting read to purchase a new laptop or netbook. square trade
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 09:57 |
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 This sounds like its one step closer to machines taking over the world matrix style, but an interesting "what if" question. Could batteries run off the energy our bodies create? Our Bodies produce an excess amount of sugar energy and we have to combat that by making insulin to control it. What if there was batteries that ran off this extra energy that our bodies create? Its an interesting concept and one that scientists are currently working on.
The first batteries to run off this bio tech are produced using yeast. The problem with this method is what to do with the waste that is created through yeast cells? It can't be allowed to enter the blood stream because its toxic, this will be something that will have to be dealt with in time. The current prototype is 15 millimetres square and 1.4 mm thick producing around 40 nanowatts of power. A typical watch battery makes about a microwatt of power. If this was attached to a compacitor it could be enough to power some small devices. Increasing the surface area of the cell and altering the geneics of the yeast could increase power output.
This is pretty interesting stuff, could energy be produces using these enzymes and living organisms? Could this be altered so that i can now eat candy bars knowing that the excess sugar is powering my ipod in my pocket? New Scientist via Gizmodo |
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 09:21 |
Watch Movies from hard drive, not DVDs Watch movies from hard drives, not DVDs Simple, sure, but not always obvious. On many planes and trains, laptops serve as little more than portable DVD players with bigger screens, but forcing your laptop to spin the discs and read from them eats up more power than reading a file off a hard disk—or, perhaps even better, a USB drive. How to get there? There are a few easy programs that can move those movies from the battery hungry dvd player to the sleek hard drive. Including slysoft copydvd and there anydvd encryption software. Handbrake is also another helpful software program as well. Recalibrate a laptop battery to regain life  It's a shame, but laptop batteries can lie to you about how much juice they have, or can really hold. The New York Times explains in a Q & A (look halfway down the page) the most straight-forward means of getting the real truth. Turn off all your interrupting apps, like screensavers and the like, put your computer to sleep, and plug it in until you know it's good and charged. Then turn it back on, make sure your power settings are such that the system won't try to sleep or hibernate, then run your computer all the way down on battery power. Charge it back up one more time, and you'll know whether you really need to start shopping at Laptop Battery Express, Laptops for Less, or check with your manufacturer to get a new lithium stick. Turn C batteries into Ds with quarters  Only a few things ever need D batteries, but who has them handy when you need those things? If you've got some slightly more handy C batteries around, you only need a few quarters to turn them into makeshift Ds. You won't get the same longevity, and you'll have to part with up to $1.50 for a bit, but it works, and it might just turn you into the family hero when you rescue that seemingly useless big-lens flashlight. I grabbed these from a special from lifehacker. I picked these out, as there not the more obvious tips. Check out the originial article here at lifehacker |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 21:03 |
T he E-Disk Altima E3S320 is pushed to 1.6 Terabytes or 1600 gigabytes. They just made a 1Tb hard drive for consumers a few months ago and now they have an even larger SSD. Even though its made don't expect to be affordable. Prices haven't been posted yet but expect to be far out of the average price range. The drive is 3.5 inch form factor and transfers data at 230mb/sec. |
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