The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held a webinar on how to avoid the pitfalls of e-waste recycling. The online meeting, hosted by Chris Newman from EPA Region 5, laid out some best practices for selecting the right recycler for eWaste (eCycling). The reasons for eCycling are simple: to protect your data, and [...]
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has approved DisplayPort version 1.2. DisplayPort (DP) is a royalty-free technology which key IT players like Intel, Microsoft, HP, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, Apple, Lenovo and other key IT players. DisplayPort aims to replace the DVI and HDMI interfaces by offering interoperability over a DP connector. The new standard allows [...]
The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), the industry group which promotes the technological, manufacturing, marketing, and business needs of the disk drive industry, is leading the Big Sector initiative to update computer hard disk drives from 512 bytes to 4,096 bytes (4 Kilobytes) sectors.
IDEMA claims the need to change the hard [...]
The Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT has developed a “personal food factory.” The scientists have created prototype 3D printer that stores, mixes, deposits, and cooks layers of ingredients that will rival your grandmother’s multi-layered lasagna according to Globalspec. The project called Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the versatility [...]
The New York Times is reporting that Apple Computers has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to patent a technology called “Advertisement in Operating System.” Advertisement in Operating System will display advertising on almost anything that has a screen of some kind: computers, phones, televisions, media players, game devices and other [...]