Remio HC UPS/Speakers Proudly Look Like Craps
Looks like uninterruptible power supply manufacturer Remio has decided to try their luck with their HC series. They got some plastic cubes, make them into dice and fill them with everything they could find, from powered USB ports for charging your gadgets to audio input and output ports. They even included two speakers along with…
Self-healing Polymer Mimics Human Skin Behaviour
There is a new material that can heal itself in case of a scratch. It uses a concentrated polymeric ink, which flows out of a vascular system that mimics our own skin. The healing stops after seven cycles but “this limitation might be overcome by implementing a new microvascular design based on dual networks.” Right…
Sun Blackbox, Don’t Handle With Care
This is Sun’s datacenter-to-go, Project Blackbox. And the video after the jump shows what happens in its interior when you put it at the epicenter of a 6.7-magnitude earthquake. Jump to the middle of the video to see the effects of the heavy shaking. The earthquake was simulated using a six-degrees-of-freedom hydraulic platform and data…
Apple’s Videos of Leopard and WWDC07 Keynote
Quick reminder: For those of you not at the keynote today, there are crystal clear explanations of all the new Leopard features over at Apple. https://gizmodo.com/whats-actually-new-in-leopard-267868 Desktop Finder Quick Look Time Machine Spaces The WWDC Keynote WWDC Keynote Liveblog [Gizmodo]
Apple WWDC Keynote: Fewer Booms Mean Lower Stock Price
You all know Steve’s favorite phrase other than “one more thing” is BOOM! Well there were definitely less booms at this this keynote than at Macworld ’07. In fact, by our count, there were only eight. That’s seven fewer than Macworld’s 15. Of course the question that all of our financially minded readers are asking…