Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen a number of locales pipe in quite a bit of energy from eco-friendly sources, but the community of Rock Port, Missouri is claiming to be 100-percent wind-powered. The gloating is due to four wind turbines erected on agricultural lands within the Rock Port city limits, and while the town is expected to consume around 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year, the aforesaid turbines will produce 16 million kilowatt hours. Excess energy generated will be pridefully sent out for purchase by the Missouri Joint Municipal Utilities, where it will eventually be consumed in less thoughtful areas. Of course, the town has been operating in such a manner for a small tick now, but it just recently found the energy to throw a party for itself to commemorate the accomplishment. Can we get an invite next year or something?
[Thanks, Yossi]
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen a number of locales pipe in quite a bit of energy from eco-friendly sources, but the community of Rock Port, Missouri is claiming to be 100-percent wind-powered. The gloating is due to four wind turbines erected on agricultural lands within the Rock Port city limits, and while the town is expected to consume around 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year, the aforesaid turbines will produce 16 million kilowatt hours. Excess energy generated will be pridefully sent out for purchase by the Missouri Joint Municipal Utilities, where it will eventually be consumed in less thoughtful areas. Of course, the town has been operating in such a manner for a small tick now, but it just recently found the energy to throw a party for itself to commemorate the accomplishment. Can we get an invite next year or something?
[Thanks, Yossi]
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Filed under: Wireless, Networking
If you’ve tried every antenna and extender on the market today with subpar results, HD Communications is apt to become your new best friend. The outfit has just revealed its HD26200, a “complete outdoor wireless network bridge in the 802.11b/g unlicensed 2.4GHz band that sells for only $318.” Said device bridges wireless internet between two locales up to 5 miles apart without requiring a single RF cable, being that both Ubiquiti network radios are powered over Ethernet. If you’re looking for the catch, the bridge does require a direct line of sight between the two locations, but the firm is reportedly looking to expand its non-line of sight family by the summer’s end.
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Filed under: Laptops
Apparently some audio can’t be turned up to F11.
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Filed under: Desktops, Displays
With all the noise NVIDIA’s been making lately about slimming down its product line and going after Intel, we were sort of hoping a leak of the company’s Summer 2008 roadmap would have some fun surprises in it, but it looks like it’s just more of the same. The schedule, obtained by DailyTech, says that we should be expecting two cards based on NVIDIA’s upcoming D10U graphics core, currently codenamed the GeForce GTX 280 (D10U-30) and GeForce GTX 260 (D10U-20). The 280 is the full-strength version of the processor, with all 240 “unified stream processors” integrated into the die enabled, while the 260 will only enable 192. The cards both support three-way SLI, and there appears to be integrated PhysX support in the works, but we won’t know details until these launch sometime around June 18th. That’s great and all, but come on guys — let’s start backing up all that smack talk.
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Few types of desktop software should be readier for replacement by the Web than personal finance.
Filed under: Peripherals
Heads-up, open-source gurus — your next play toy is officially ready to be pre-ordered. The OGD1 is a self-proclaimed “high-end FPGA prototyping kit and hardware engineering platform, equipped with the peripherals needed to develop and test computer graphics architectures.” Essentially, it’s designed to be used by students of FPGA programming, engineers hunting down a dev platform or hobbyists who just can’t stop hacking stuff up. The board itself features twin dual-link DVI outputs, 256MB of RAM, PCI / PCI-X compatibility, a passive cooling system and a 128-bit memory bus. Of course, such a niche product doesn’t come without a premium, so don’t yell too loudly when reading that this one will cost you $1,500 to take home. Heck, it’s only $1,400 if you’re one of the first hundred to commit.
[Via Hack-A-Day]
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Filed under: Peripherals
Heads-up, open-source gurus — your next play toy is officially ready to be pre-ordered. The OGD1 is a self-proclaimed “high-end FPGA prototyping kit and hardware engineering platform, equipped with the peripherals needed to develop and test computer graphics architectures.” Essentially, it’s designed to be used by students of FPGA programming, engineers hunting down a dev platform or hobbyists who just can’t stop hacking stuff up. The board itself features twin dual-link DVI outputs, 256MB of RAM, PCI / PCI-X compatibility, a passive cooling system and a 128-bit memory bus. Of course, such a niche product doesn’t come without a premium, so don’t yell too loudly when reading that this one will cost you $1,500 to take home. Heck, it’s only $1,400 if you’re one of the first hundred to commit.
[Via Hack-A-Day]
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Filed under: Laptops
The folks over at Laptop Magazine have gotten their mitts on CTL’s latest edition to the ever-growing field of ultraportables, the IL1PC (or as we like to call it, the Airis Kira 740), and have given it the once over. The system is built atop VIA’s 1GHz C7-M CPU, has 1GB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, and uses Windows XP as its OS. Obvious comparisons to ASUS’s Eee abound, though Laptop was impressed with its slick design and small footprint, and felt that it excelled at simple tasks like web browsing and email. Things weren’t so smooth when it came to video playback, as graphics-intensive duties led to choppy behavior. Head over to the full review to get all the ins and outs, as well as some handsome pics.
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Filed under: Displays
We’ve seen an A4-sized sheet of e-paper or two in our day, but Epson’s new prototype display features an absurdly high resolution for its size: 3104 x 4128, clocking it in at something like 385ppi. According to Fareastgizmos, E Ink’s supplying the, um, electronic ink, while Seiko Epson built out the low-temperature polycrystal Si-TFT glass substrate medium. Yeah, we’ve got a long ways to go before we’ll all be reading the e-paper morning news on the way to work, but it can’t be that long, can it?
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