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Systemax Endeavor series professional Workstations

James Allan Brady, Nov 14th 2007 Discuss [0]

Systemax, the budget PC manufacturer who you might recognize from their significant presence on TigerDirect, has a couple of new Workstation systems you can have built to order. They aren't playing around with these systems either, they are just barely budget, but they aren’t using proprietary components, they are using name brand Intel hardware, Kingston RAM, and nVidia or ATI graphics. There are two models with the primary differences being price and storage solutions. The $2199 model offers up SATA supporting 7.5k and 10k RPM drives, the $2299 model offers up an SAS solution that will support up to 15k RPM drives, the only thing that offers better response times than that is solid state. Read The Full Story

New DoD contest for a Wearable Power Supply

James Allan Brady, Sep 14th 2007 Discuss [0]

So, if you are in need of roughly a million dollars and have a high level understanding of energy storage, creation, and/or transmission, you might want to start looking for a team that is to be signing up for this competition. Sadly if you join a team you have to split the million dollars, but if you are some sort of freak who is exceptionally talented in all things energy, then feel free to enter on your own. Here is what you have to do, first you have to develop a portable power system for soldiers. Oh that sounds easy does it? Well then you have to make it so it can weigh a maximum of 8.8 pounds or 4 kilograms. Well if that sounds kind of easy too, lets go ahead and tack on the fact that it has to put out a minimum average of 20 watts for 4 days. Read The Full Story

Super-efficient PSU makes servers cool

Chris Davies, Mar 6th 2007 Discuss [0]

"Turn off the fridge, Bob, the sun is beginning to fade" That might be the very shouts of the general populous as ecological crisis flourishes over the next few years; most experts worth their farthing would agree that we need to turn our wasteful ways around. A damned good way of doing that might be chucking out the power-hungry PSU in our computer and replacing it with one that merely sips at the AC juice. That's where ColdWatt steps in. Read The Full Story

Eagon develops solar panels bonded with glass

Chris Davies, Mar 5th 2007 Discuss [0]

Perhaps I'm dumb, but there's something about this Eagon 'Solarwin' system that doesn't seem so great as the Korean company is making it out to be. Apparently the clever part is how the domestic solar panels are fixed to the window, but to my eyes it just looks like they're stuck on. Anyway, they're designed to not just reduce national grid energy consumption but replace large portions of it, and from the sound of it the panels aren't just solar collectors but battery storage as well. Read The Full Story

Power Strip Container Ship

Rue Liu, Sep 26th 2006 Discuss [0]

A really great way to make those big clusters of adaptor blocks less of an eyesore. Plug them on this groovy containership power strip. No need to hide that darn thing anymore, now show it off to all your friends. Brought to you by the same clever duo, Griffin Termeer, who brought you the Chop and Weigh cutting scale, this nifty powerstrip is still a prototype and will not be found at your local Walmarts anytime soon. Containership Power Supply [Via: Yanko Design]