When you want to spead IoT devices around, there is challenge of powering them. You need to provide power to them or be prepared to change batteries in then very now and then. Great things are expected of the Internet of things but only if engineers can solve one potential show-stopper of a question: how →
High power CPUs run very hot. But can you cook an egg on it? Search online and you can find videos of people attempting to cook on their processors, but how effective as a cooling solution is this? Frying an Egg on a CPU article makes on an analysis can you throw away your conventional →
http://mobile.geek.com/latest/257134-qi-wireless-charging-revision-will-be-as-fast-as-wired-quick-chargers?origref= Posted from WordPress for Android →
Here is some reading if you are interested in computer hardware and how it developed as you see it today. Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: How lithium-ion batteries, industrial design and Moore’s law created modern laptops article takes a look at the creation of the modern laptop: An in-depth look at lithium-ion batteries, industrial design, →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/flashristors-getting-the-best-of-memristors-and-flash-memory Posted from WordPress for Android →
Crowdfunding campaigns or wide product announcements that do not make sense pops up every now and then. It seems that energy related “inventions” seems to be getting easily into the spotlight without proven merits: Hackaday article Crowdfunding Follies: Proof That Ohm’s Law Is Arcane Knowledge tells about a special cell phone case Kickstarter (Nikola Phone →
https://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-official-case/ Story how official case for Raspberry Pi was designed an how it is manufactured. There goes lots of design and engineering to make a plastic case. Posted from WordPress for Android →
News beat is drumming heavily on claim that Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster. Batteriser is making its media debut, with features in all the tech blogs, an astonishing amount of print outlets, and spouted from the gaping maws of easily impressed rubes the world over: Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that promises →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/devices/hardware-startups-take-on-lupus-asthma-infertility-night-terrors Posted from WordPress for Android →
The great LED lightbulb rip-off: One in four expensive ‘long-life’ bulbs doesn’t last anything like as long as the makers claim article tells that many energy-efficient LED light bulbs failed before their advertised lifespan, tests have found. Disappointing result comes despite claims of them lasting 25,000 hours. The consumer watchdog and European partners tested five samples of →