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Submission + - Size Matters-Engineering the 30-Meter Telescope (canadianmanufacturing.com)

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yyzmcleod
yyzmcleod writes: "When completed in 2018, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be the world's largest and most powerful, with a resolving power 100 times that of Hubble. As TMT's preliminary design review nears, the following story details how its enclosure, segmented mirror and adaptive optics will work to let astronomers peer back to the beginning of the Cosmos."
Displays

Submission + - iPhone + MS Surface = big, thin multitouch display (sn.im)

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yyzmcleod
yyzmcleod writes: "Every designer familiar with movies like Minority Report or Iron Man have drooled over the prospect of dumping their mice and getting hands-on with their digital medium. It looks as though engineers at product development house, MOTO Development Group, have moved one step closer to that possibility. Today, the company unveiled details of the its Scalable Multi-Touch prototype, a capacitive touch display that scales iPhone-like technology to the size of the MS Surface but without the use of cameras or bulky hardware. While the prototype measures 19 inches, MOTO says their display tech could grow to as large as 50 inches but remain as thin as a typical LCD screen."
Books

Submission + - Amazon Swallows Popular eBook Reader Stanza

Submitted by Retrospeak
Retrospeak writes: Amazon is making a small acquisition with potentially big consequences for e-book readers. They've picked up e-reader start-up Lexcycle and thus will control the future of its popular iPhone application, Stanza. Lexcycle founder Marc Prud'hommeaux (http://www.lexcycle.com/lexcycle_acquired_by_amazon) is trying to reassure loyal Stanza users this is a positive move forward, but skeptical e-book fans fear this is a move by Amazon to close the book on competitive option in this fast-growing market.
Graphics

Submission + - AMD Launches 40nm Radeon HD 4770 For $99 (hothardware.com)

Submitted by NinjaKicks
NinjaKicks writes: AMD is launching yet another new ATI Radeon graphics card today and this card brings solid performance for around $99 mark. The new Radeon HD 4770 is AMD's first desktop GPU manufactured using a 40nm process for a smaller die size that consumes less power and allows decent performance at a more reasonable price point. The 40nm RV740 GPU at the heart of the card is comprised of 826M transistors and its reference specifications call for a 750MHz engine clock. The GPU is outfitted with 640 stream processors that accesses its 512MB GDDR5 frame buffer memory over a 128-bit interface running at 800MHz. The 4770's benchmark numbers are very respectable for a card in its class and its power consumption is low enough to require only a single supplemental 6-pin PCIe power connector.
Power

Submission + - Why IT Won't Power Down PCs (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Internal politics and poor leadership on sustainable IT strategies are among the top reasons preventing organizations from practicing proper PC power management — to the tune of $2.8 billion wasted per year powering unused PCs. According to a recent survey, 42 percent of IT shops do not manage PC energy consumption simply because no one in the organization has been made responsible for doing so — this despite greater awareness of IT power-saving myths, and PC power myths in particular. Worse, 22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.' In other words, resources spent by IT vs. the permanent energy crisis appear to result in little payback for IT."
Programming

Submission + - 3D mouse takes Apple's lead with 3rd-party apps (canadianmanufacturing.com)

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AndreV
AndreV writes: "3D-input-device wizard 3D Connexions has taken a page from Apple's books with today's newly released SpacePilot Pro, a 3D mouse that, unlike it predecessors, features a color LCD screen that displays iPhone-like applets that monitor and channel common office applications and keep the door open for user-generated programs. The real potential, the president says, comes from the fact the company provides a free SDK so that software developers can create their own applets for the device similar to Apple's strategy for the iPhone. 'Handing out a software development kit will allow third-party developers to produce professional applications to give you access to even more information, on your workstation, on your network or on the Internet,' he says. 'For example, its conceivable that [3D CAD software giant] SolidWorks could create an applet that connects the model you are working on with [content management software] PDMWorks to gives you supply chain information, inventory information or whatever at the push of a button.' What other gadget makers out there have latched onto Apple's functionality? Too many to count?"

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