Hardware Stories for 2009

An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup 71
Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan 146
Impressive Robot Hand From Shadow 101
Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights 839
HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors 442
What's Happened In Mobile Over the Past 10 Years 149
World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India 128
Skeptics Question OLPC's Focus With $75 Tablet 159
Wikileaks Needs Help, and Not Just Money 134
First Tablet Using Pixel Qi Screen On The Way 97
Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter 38
"Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week 325
Next-Gen Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Unveiled 155
The Best Robots of 2009 51
Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? 484
OLPC Unveils Plans For Tablets By 2012 102
Typing With Your Brain 262
Body Heat Energy Generation 214
Intel Patches Flaws In Trusted Execution Tech 84
Nuclear Reactors As Art 118
CherryPal's $99 "Odd Lots" Netbook 234
Intel's New Atom D510 Benchmark Tested 86
Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor 165
The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater 156
26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record 139
FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer 127
Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors 110
Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 258
What Is the State of Linux Security DVR Software? 112
Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? 427
Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year 253
B&N Nook Successfully Opened 275
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
The DIY Book Scanner 177
EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players 360
Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009 77
Nanotech Ink Turns Paper Into a Low-Cost Battery 129
$860 Million In Fines Handed Out For LCD Price-Fixing 151
Researchers Create Cheap, Flexible, Plastic Flash Memory 82
Brothers Build World's Largest Model Train Set 4
DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33 166
Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo 113
Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139
IBM's Newest Mainframe Is All Linux 251
Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format 123
A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware 123
Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market 161
Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48 87
Silicon As the New Lithium 211
The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card 122
CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo 277
Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales 405
Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text 115
Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? 410
Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts 81
Intel Kills Consumer Larrabee Plans 166
Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor and Platform "By Publishers, For Publishers" 155
One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption 257
DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court 267
Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start 308
What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? 970
Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra 86
Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112
Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor 366
Typewriters, Computers, and Creating? 227
Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center 121
MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose 129
Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated 400
Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations 82
Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? 314
Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out 154
Flexible, Color OLED Screens For E-Readers 118
Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries 54
Home Router For High-Speed Connection? 376
Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers 155
NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants 260
Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo 35
The World's First Osmotic Power Plant 262
Tokyo Students Design a New Robotic Muscle Suit 55
Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy 327
Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? 152
Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics 146
Gakken Arduino Clone Spotted At Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04 1
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut 120
Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison 255
Australia's CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer 82
Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development 75
Colossus 3.5-in SSD Combines Quad Controllers 160
UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" 83
Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars 278
Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation 619
Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 314
Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows? 305
Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer 269
Smart Grid Could Pose Threat To Privacy 297
Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere 327
Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday 85
Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% 135
CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage 581
Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins 123
Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput 110
Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? 549
Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details 124
100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 286
Most Security Products Fail To Perform 99
NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source 234
Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two 140
Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years 416
Maine Wind Farm In Doubt Because Site Is Too Windy 3
Project Natal Release Details Emerge 173
How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid? 359
OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support 610
Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired 111
Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil 720
10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes 213
Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display 66
MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source 151
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space 247
UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D 126
Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 462
Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid 235
Reusing Old TiVo Hardware? 197
Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope 50
Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? 438
Sony Demos Natal-Like Control System 63
Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 265
Microsoft Research Shows Off New Projects On College Recruiting Tour 62
Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners 87
Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All 275
On-Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum? 131
Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? 1174
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup 109
Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough 225
Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 69
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker 658
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe 28
New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand 123
Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars 144
A Clever New Approach To Desalination 128
Controlling Games and Apps Through Muscle Sensors 47
Moon-Excavation Robots Face Off 61
Contest To Hack Brazilian Voting Machines 101
Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 453
USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet 168
Nintendo Announces DSi XL 179
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823
New Improvements On the Attacks On WPA/TKIP 166
Who Installs the Most Crapware? 583
Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells 251
Physics Rebel Aims To Shake Up the Video Game World 89
ARM Stealthily Rising As a Low-End Contender 285
Intel Pulls SSD Firmware Day After Release 125
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Pleo 40
Laptop Fires On Airplanes 560
Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? 467
Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes 112
Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL 173
Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer 260
Android Phone Turned Into Virtual Reality Goggles 103
Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? 245
Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence 144
Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor 191
Surgeon Performs World's First 4X HD Surgery 101
Low-Power Home Linux Server? 697
Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne 121
ARM Launches Cortex-A5 Processor, To Take On Atom 176
No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020 346
Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body 220
NASA Power Beaming Challenge is On For November 2nd 81
NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB 227
The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers 170
Skiing Robot May Not Be Useful, But Fun To Watch 64
Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars 609
Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? 349
Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells 86
A New Robotic Hand That Can "Feel" 112
Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop 419
What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? 232
Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage 435
Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display 102
iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot 177
A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion 404
MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Indoor Robocopter 69
MS's "Lifeblogging" Camera Enters Mass Production 119
California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 339
German Team Wins 2009 Solar Decathlon 56
HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone 181
Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence 167
MS Says All Sidekick Data Recovered, But Damage Done 279
Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chip 119
First Look At Acer's 3D Laptop 151
Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots 419
CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose 383
Next Nintendo Handheld To Be Powered By NVIDIA's Tegra Chipset 216
10/GUI — an Interface For Multi-Touch Input 344
High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids 332
New Jersey Outshines Most Others In Solar Energy 240
EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy 183
Eee Keyboard Details Released 166
The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability 246
LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book 139
Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data 304
Why Cloud Storage Is Lousy For Enterprises (and Individuals) 183
Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? 274
Yale Physicists Measure 'Persistent Current' 68
From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency 183
NVIDIA To Exit Chipset Business 185
Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed 444
Contest Winners Show Potential For Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard 129
Harald Welte Calls Out Netgear's Open Source Sham 199
Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed 333
Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa 814
The First High-Definition TV, Circa 1958 222
Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year 168
Microsoft Research Shows Off Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes 137
Open Access To Exercise Data? 188
OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity" 64
Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference 212
Honda Makes Nanotube Breakthrough 88
Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air 240
ARM and Dual-Atom Processors in New Portables 147
Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop 84
Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality 150
GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive 238
Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul 557
Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500-Mile Range 650
Mechanical Tumor As CPU Meter 3
Nvidia Discloses Details On Next-Gen Fermi GPU 175
What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? 256
NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API 393
Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day 122
Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs 246
How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar 121
Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? 266
Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler 282
Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress 275
Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production 117
A "Photon Machine Gun" For Quantum Computers 143
Revisiting DIY HERF Guns 425
Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder 336
New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second 437
How Hardware Makers Come To Violate Free Software Licenses 186
Data Locking In a Web Application? 283
Making Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries 77
First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive 191
New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop 81
The World's First Four-Screen Laptop 134
HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap 205
Using a Treadmill and Wiimotes To Run and Fly in Aion 86
Promised Platform-Independent GPU Tech Is Getting Real 102

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