On the other hand, the iSlate, a completely solar-powered solar-powered computer tablet targeting at rural communities without access to electricity, may move into markets in the not-so-distant future.
First, the STRIVA Core is a miniature battery-powered computer that functions as a web server coupled with an assortment of Wi-Fi components powerful enough to make any device wireless.
The challenges on the site are incredibly varied and include everything from a multinational food company looking for a "Reduced Fat Chocolate-Flavored Compound Coating" to an electronics firm trying to design a solar-powered computer.
Two years ago, Otellini handed Jobs a pristine silicon wafer to mark the announcement of the first Intel-powered Apple portable computer, the MacBook Pro.
Those sales weren't limited to aging hippies who've never powered up a computer: Roughly nine of every ten LPs sold included a digital download code for the same album.
The games developers say that they are struggling to find in the UK the kind of high-powered mathematicians and computer scientists that they need to build increasingly sophisticated products.
Included were a high-powered rifle, a laptop computer and books on history, politics and philosophy.
This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
Steven Burt, G24's chief financial officer, talks of light-bulb-powered TV remote controls, smoke detectors and computer keyboards. (A non-removable internal battery would store charge for use when the lights are off.) The company already offers prototypes of bags and jackets with photosensitive panels woven in, designed to charge digital cameras and mobile phones, and a hotel in Las Vegas is using G24's products to run its electric window-blinds.
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The computer in the camp office is solar powered, as the camp doesn't have electricity.
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Mauchly was among the first to see the computer as more than a high-powered calculator.
There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.
And remember, FlipShare has to be running and streaming video over the dongle the entire time you're using the set-top, so a lower-powered machine might feel the strain -- and if your computer goes to sleep, hangs, or crashes while you're watching the FlipShare, well, you won't be watching it any more.
While Apple's designs are unique, its hardware is powered by the same Intel microprocessors you'll find in any computer sold by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
The primary PC is a GeForce 8800-equipped gaming rig with up to 4GB of RAM and 4TB of HDD space, while the secondary computer is a "personal media center or server" powered by either VIA's Epia C7 or Intel's Merom processor.
Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.
The parts are tracked by computer, and each of the transports, which are battery powered, have their own positioning systems so they can move around the factory without running into anything.
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When Microsoft recognized a booming need for IT support to service the networks it powered, it stepped up its giving to US community college programs that offered computer technology degrees.
They also can manage and monitor the vehicle remotely via computer at OnStar.com, or with a special Chevrolet Mobile App powered by OnStar Remote Link.
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If it goes ahead, the computer data centre would provide services for a number of companies and would be powered by tidal energy rather than rely on fossil fuel.
The net-powered PC has come out of a project to create specifications for powering almost any kind of computer hardware through Ethernet cables.
Perfect for slipping into a laptop bag or pocket, all of Iomega's 2.5-inch portable hard drives are host powered, requiring no external power supply beyond the power provided through the USB bus on a personal computer, laptop or netbook.
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Grimsson says new data centers -- the computer warehouses that essentially house the Internet -- are coming to Iceland because they can be powered by clean energy, and because the country is a smart linking point between North America and Europe.
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