Hardware Stories for 2011

Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? 235
Soon, No More Film Movie Cameras 227
Sony Reader T1 Hacked 50
OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest 202
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? 258
Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas 140
Table Salt Could Help Boost HDD Storage Density By a Factor of 5 142
CyanogenMod Ports Android To HP TouchPad 86
Looking For E-Ink Applications Beyond Ebook Readers 161
No PDFs, No Co-editing On Underwhelming Apple iCloud 189
Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl 240
3D Printer For Your Kids 195
AMD 'Bulldozer' FX CPU Reviews Arrive 271
Ask Slashdot: Project Scope For MLB Robot Umpires? 141
Boeing Suggests Possible Manned Version of the X-37B Space Plane 87
Jaguar Supercomputer Being Upgraded To Regain Fastest Cluster Crown 89
Man With Quadriplegia Controls Robot Arm With Mind 70
Jonathan Koomey Answers Your Questions 31
Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB 327
Slate Reprints Blue-Box Article That Inspired Jobs 121
Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? 133
Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? 263
ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' 173
Graphene Creates Electricity When Struck By Light 132
HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 253
HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android 86
Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels 186
US Military To Field Test "Throwable" Robots 91
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster 34
AMD Brings New Desktop Chips Down To 65W 104
So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day 291
Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead 181
Adapteva Announces Epiphany Mesh Processor 41
Paris Launches World's First Electric Car Share Program 136
Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima 178
Hitachi-LG Fined $21M For Price-Fixing Optical Drives 98
World Solar Challenge 2011 Starts In Two Weeks 58
Tesla Model S: 0-60 In 4.5 Seconds 426
Psystar Loses Appeal In Apple Case 258
Prototyping Boards Make It Easier To Find Flaws in Specialized Hardware 56
The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals 270
MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight 158
Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot 140
Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK 197
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? 1016
Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? 499
Panasonic To Unveil New Helper Robots 41
HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees 131
Zotac Releases GeForce GT 520 With Classic PCI Connector 199
Is the Sparc T4 Too Little Too Late? 128
Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces 521
Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot 386
Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines 251
Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? 559
Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory 50
Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid 247
Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor 127
Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs 496
Will Quantum Computing Make It Out of the Lab? 129
Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record 174
Ask Jonathan Koomey About 'Koomey's Law' 52
Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive 148
Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed 77
Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? 393
Work Underway To Finally Build Babbage's Analytical Engine 86
Is ARM Ever Coming To the Desktop? 332
10-Petaflops Supercomputer Being Built For Open Science Community 55
OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD 189
Smarter Robot Arms 52
Via Files Suit Against Apple 262
Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars 154
Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law 148
Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement 379
Walmart Goes Solar In California 292
Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature 152
Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config 22
Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cell Produces Hydrogen 58
Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra Will Have Fifth "Companion Core" 98
Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? 375
British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads 237
SMK Toughens Up Those Tiny Micro-USB Connections 137
28-Way Radeon GPU Comparison Under Linux 85
MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results 203
Intel's RISC-y Business 225
Arduino Goes ARM 144
Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business 400
Thin Film Transforms Any Surface Into Touchscreen 81
The Letter That Started AMD's Open-Source Strategy 92
Artificial Blood Vessels Created On a 3D Printer 33
Printing a Building 112
Intel Experimental Processor Runs On Solar Power 104
Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course 71
MIT Researchers Create New Tiny Energy Harvester 101
Ask Slashdot: Clusters On the Cheap? 264
Synaptics Working On Advanced Touchscreen For Phones 62
The Rise of Robotic Labor 308
Eben Upton Answers Your Questions 37
Fixing the Final Steps In the Recycling Chain 45
An $80 Open Source Chemical Analyzer 51
Whither Moore's Law; Introducing Koomey's Law 105
AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer 193
Boosting Battery Storage With Seaweed 59
Broadcom To Buy NetLogic For $3.7 Billion 35
Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan 224
Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? 251
Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One 262
Polymer Gel Shows Promise For Smaller, Cheaper Batteries 108
5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear 239
Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) 359
Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can 229
The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany 394
UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project 199
FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues 125
Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity 237
Carnegie Mellon Introduces RoboBowl To Spur Robotics Advances 32
Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back 197
1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback 106
Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side 284
Nintendo Faces Patent Suit Over the Wii 91
Microbes Produce Power As They Clean Nuclear Waste 90
Scientists Create New Type of Superconductor Wires 96
IBM, 3M Team To Glue Together Silicon "Bricks" 81
Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM 100
Ask Director Eben Upton About the Raspberry Pi Foundation 194
3TB Hard Drive Round Up 238
AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU 202
Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die 835
Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say 288
Paralyzed Patients Control Robot With Brain Waves 49
Kevin Kelly Answers Your Questions 65
Stuffing a PS3 and an Xbox 360 Into a PC Case 96
E Ink Demos New Displays, Gadgets At IFA 2011 221
Window Shopping With Gesture Recognition 39
Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet 178
Tapping Subway Trains For Energy 229
Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard 362
Intel and AMD May Both Delay Next-Generation CPUs 193
Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card 77
Hands-On Account of Amazon's Upcoming Color Kindle 156
Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer 394
Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC 349
Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? 232
First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer 90
Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers 138
Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck 279
Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display 153
UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display 39
Record-Low Error Rate For Qubit Processor 66
Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels 113
Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves 41
Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight 360
James Gosling Leaves Google 192
New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage 212
CyanogenMod Shows Off Android On the HP TouchPad 117
Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars 273
The Quest For an EV Fast-Charge Standard 248
Raspberry Pi Running Quake 3 102
Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA 330
Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall 109
Razer Announces Dedicated Gaming Laptop 200
PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse 168
Theoretical Shoe Inserts Could Power Your Gadgets 210
IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks 290
Acer CEO Declares a Tablets Bubble 692
Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? 543
Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets 202
Is the Quick Death of Failed Tech Products a Good Thing? 181
Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets 91
Fukushima Robot Operator Tells His Story 57
Canadian Firm Gave Libyan Rebels Surveillance Drone 165
MK-1 Robotic Arm Capable of Near-Human Dexterity, Dancing 56
Android On HP TouchPad 280
Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US 598
Jailbroken Devices Compromised By Charging Stations 93
Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost 254
HP's Shift On PCs Could Boost Acer, Dell and Lenovo 156
How Volunteers Rebuilt WW2 Computers 51
13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough 410
Computer Prediction Used to Design Better Organic Semiconductors 32
HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business 514
ARM Is a Promising Platform But Needs To Learn From the PC 167
UCLA Engineers Create Energy-Generating LCD Screen 108
The Computer Labs That Created the Digital World 48
MABEL Robot Runs Like a Human 130
Navy Bomb Squads Get a Solar Power Upgrade 56
Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court 122
Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found 76
Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel? 244
Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software 499
The Death of Booting Up 557
Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers 323
NAND Flash Can Verify a Device's Identity 34
Installing Linux On a 386 Laptop 260
Faint Praise From WSJ For a Linux Touchscreen PC For Seniors 59
8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars 937
Why Companies Knowingly Ship Insecure Devices 123
3D Hacking Environment Links Kinect, Blender, and Metasploit 93
China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car 258
New Serial ATA Standards Target SSDs, Tablets 113
Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters 262
Iron Man-like Exoskeleton Nears Production 220
Portable, Super-high-resolution 3-D Imaging 31
Apple Now Offering Free Recycling For PCs 172
Wireless Charging On the Droid Bionic? 81
New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power 287
Smartphone-Style Touch Sensing On an 82-Inch Screen 31
Breaking Motion Capture Out of the Studio 39
ARM Sees Mobile As the Future Gaming Platform of Choice 97
External Thunderbolt Graphics Card On Its Way 207
NCSA and IBM Part Ways Over Blue Waters 76
Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc 261
AMD Enters Desktop Memory Market 65
Intel Details New Ultrabook Reference Designs 186
Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms 111
Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits 184
Build Your Own Camera, Launch It Like a Grenade 117
Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds 189
PlayStation 3 Controller On Android Devices 133
Making Microelectronics Out of Nanodiamond 80
Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go 81
Eben Upton Talks About the Raspberry Pi USB Computer 82
Autodesk + Instructables: For Makers? 77
Defcon Hacks Defeat Card-And-Code Locks In Seconds 144
Google's Self Driving Car Crashes 244
Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps 585
Update Brings Android USB Mounting To Chromebooks 47
Harnessing Interference For Faster Wireless Data 91
Open Source Gesture Recognition For Kinect SDK 25
Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself 331
Monitor Household Energy From Your Smartphone 58
eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half 197
.NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? 241
Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies 482
Use Your Car To Power Your House 271
Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor 410
Middleboxes vs. the Internet's End-to-End Principle 90
Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect 140
NRC Study Lowers Hazard Estimate For Nuke Plants 168
3D Printing and the Replicator Economy 322
Google Running 900,000 Servers 127
Computer Marries Texas Couple 142
Radio Energy Harvested With Inkjet-Printed Antenna 164
Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste 279
Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots 372
No Set-Top TV Device Market Domination For Google 133
WD's Terabyte Scorpio Notebook Drive Tested 100
Beyond HDTV 354
MIT Unveils Sun-Free Photovoltaics 103
Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production 137

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