Month: February 2008
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Eco Mouse Gets Its Juice From Laptop Itself
DORmino Eco Mouse Gets Its Juice From Laptop Itself! – Ecofriend This wouldn’t help me because I use my trustee MacBook Pro with an external monitor and keyboard most of the time, but I could see how it could work — especially with aluminum laptops like the MacBook Pros. The aluminum transits heat out of…
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High stakes salvage – smarts over brawn
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace Photo: Courtesy of US Coast Guard These guys use some smarts instead of heavy machinery to salvage ships in trouble. When you get offered $30M to save one ship and hold out for more, that extra savings makes for a nice…
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Google May Buy a Balloon Company to Build Huge Wireless Networks
Wireless: Google May Buy a Balloon Company to Build Huge Wireless Networks OK, I’m intrigued. The balloons only last a day or so, and then they come down. This is my problem. Exactly where do these things come down? If Google wants to put up bunches of these things every day, that means bunches of…