He just spent the past six years building a replica of the Cyan game's signature, Age-traveling link books that includes a full Windows XP PC with a 1.6GHz Atom, a 2-hour battery, a 5-inch touchscreen and every playable game from the Myst series stored on a CF card.
Pushing this electron out to its lonely periphery - and make a Rydberg atom - requires energy.
For now, though, this seems like a fine piece of hardware, and we're glad to see Vizio and AMD giving Intel Atom chips a little much-needed competition.
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They were structurally similar to cytisine in many ways, sharing the location of a nitrogen atom in a particular place on a pair of bicycle-like carbon rings.
It's not like it's ready for the mass market as-is, but it's clear that a manufacturer wouldn't have much trouble building a sexy Atom-based form factor to back this display.
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The platform includes a dual core Atom processor with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, and also features a dual-core graphics engine.
Think of it as a sheet of chicken-wire that is just a single atom thick, but also lightweight, strong, airtight, stretchable, transparent and an excellent conductor of both electricity and light.
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Even if experimenters bounce the beams to and fro to increase the effective length of an interferometer's arms to more than 100 kilometres, the expected difference in length between the two beams' paths still amounts to less than a hundred-millionth of the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
The crux: a six-atom side chain that fit neatly into the thumbhole.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
Intel announced a new version of its low-end Atom microprocessor, but aimed at the market for tablet computers, as well as for a new generation of netbook computers that are even lighter than the ones being sold today.
He found a 17-year-old paper written by University of Maryland researcher Paul Mazzochi that mentioned how moving a nitrogen atom in a morphine molecule caused its morphinelike properties to disappear--and also made it poisonous, just like nicotine.
It sports an Intel Atom processor, a 12.1-inch display and a conventional plastic shell.
When Intel wants to show investors the kind of devices that will use future generations of even more power-efficient Atom processors, it flashes a slide with an image of an iPhone.
However, he says Quantum Mechanics prevents anyone from claiming it would be smaller than a Planck length, a length of measurement so miniscule that it would make a normal-sized atom look like an outsized sun.
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Moving on, we've got the Ion-based HTPC, which is outfitted with a 1.6GHz Atom 230 CPU, Vista Ultimate (64-bit), 4GB of DDR2-667 RAM, an OCZ 120GB SSD, Blu-ray drive, gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, HDMI output and a multicard reader.
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It's a much lighter product, at 1.3 pounds (down from 1.58), and although it uses a heavier-duty Atom processor, battery life is said to top out at about 10 hours. (The original lasted eight in our usual test.) Like the OG version, it allows for pen input on select models, but of course, Windows comes ready-made with a larger selection of apps where a pen might actually be useful.
Just as we heard, there's about a 20 percent improvement -- most other single-core Atom N450 netbooks score around 1, 200 on PCMark05, while the Mini 5103 notched a 1, 866.
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The Activity Streams Project is being implemented in two ways: by extending the Atom Syndication format and by adding a JSON-based format to the Open Social 2.0 standards.
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Making it more difficult to get an Atom-powered machine running OS X might be a sign Apple is preparing to introduce its own mobile processors, built around the technology it acquired from P.
The researchers caught an intermediate step in the process by which hydrogen is removed from tryptamine, namely the point at which a proton disappears from a carbon atom as the carbon-hydrogen bond breaks.
Intel is keeping up a particularly fast pace in its system-on-a-chip (SoC) business, based on its low-power Atom core.
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The Inspiron 9 has the requisite wi-fi connection, a lightweight solid-state hard drive and Intel 's zippy new Atom processor.
Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD - news - people ) as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
The Boxee Box uses the Intel Atom CE4100, Intel's system-on-a-chip designed for TV and Internet integration.
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The Atom-based units are cheaper and run longer on a charge.
For example, a user can shoot photos or videos with their tablet or smartphone, sync it with the new Intel Atom-based device, and stream the content to a TV.
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This let researchers see objects as small as 1 nanometer in size--about five times larger than a single atom.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company on Monday is unveiling a deal to supply Atom processors for Android-based smartphones to be sold by Orange in both the U.K. and France.
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Everyone wants a new generation ultra-portable pumping the Atom processor right?
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