Sleek, Elegant, and Awe Inspiring are all words that will without a question, pop into your mind after using a laser as badass as the Lucentoptics EnVee. A powerful 120mW output gives you the power to burn practically anything in sight, and be seen from up to 60Miles. Not to mention, the EnVee comes in a rugged Otterbox Cigar Daddy 2 which fits the entire laser and has room for extra batteries and the keys.
If rugged, hard-wearing portable computing is your interest, Panasonic’s range of Toughbook notebooks probably has your admiration. Their 7 Series models, announced today, continue the tradition of drop, spill, compression and electrostatic resistant chassis with updated hardware: now you can take a 1.60GHz Intel Core 2 Duo powered machine and be comfortable dropping it 2.5 feet onto the floor.
Kansas City and some places in Southwest Louisiana will be getting some customized MacBooks due to a contract Apple landed with those school districts. Basically they are just adding the necessary security upgrades that the schools required, but there’s nothing basic about the upgrades.
I kind of wonder if these school districts aren’t fronts for CIA training camps, I mean Apple is adding in GPS tracking for the notebooks, the ability to remotely destroy the hard drive of a stolen school MacBook, and a sticker that is said to destroy the notebook if someone tries to remove it. Those are some pretty hardcore security updates for some school laptops.
So easy in fact, within the software there is a one click upload to YouTube button. It records at a resolution of 640×480 at a rate of 30 frames per second, not bad for such a rugged cam.
The ruggedness comes from the anodized aluminum exterior and the lack of a lot of moving parts and controls. There is a button to roll and cut, its one button though, and that’s all there is.
So let’s say you work for Lenovo, and you write a piece about how your company (Lenovo) doesn’t currently offer a truly ruggedized PC and the next closest thing is the ThinkPad series. Then let’s say that you go to home base to do a presentation for a potential customer and on your way out you see exactly what you just wrote doesn’t exist.
Would that make you angry, or would you just laugh? Me I’d laugh, but that actually happened to a guy, when he went to Beijing where the Innovation Center is.
Mainly because they have frickin’ lasers. So, laser tag is fun. Flying RC helicopters is fun.
Combining the two with RC helicopters that shoot, and receive, laser beams just like laser tag, well that’s Head-Explodingly fun. The fun is only compounded by the fact that a laser hit makes the copter spin out of control and crash.
Olympus introduces Mju 795 SW tough digital camera that is designed for outdoor activities. It is resistant to water (10m), shocks, low temperature environment, dust and sand. The camera sports 7.1 mega-pixel sensor, 2.5-inch LCD and 3x optical zoom.
Systemax announces its new 14.1-inch rugged notebook today called Systemax Assault. The chassis of the machine is made of magnesium alloy case with anti-shock design and spill resistant keyboard and touch pad.
We’ve seen many rugged laptops that could hold up to very harsh work environment. How would you like a rugged tablet PC? Getac, a tablet PC manufacturer unveiled a rugged tablet PC called V100 that is made to be resistant to extreme environment.
Great for contractors, military personnel, or those looking to reenact their favorite high-impact video games, the TDS Recon 200X is one tough PDA. Meeting Mil. Spec. for drops, vibrations, and extreme temperatures is no easy venture for a PDA, I mean I doubt you’ll see anyone in Iraq with an iPhone.
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