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Toshiba invents reprintable paper

News The Toshiba B-SX8R uses thermal technology and is a re-writable printer that uses re-writable paper. It is very similar to the old thermal printer technology," said Keene. Thermal printing was used extensively in the 1970s and 1980s.

23 November 2006, 9:44

Intel's Yonah chip is hungry for power

News While few consumers will ever hit the maximum power consumption levels (also known as a thermal ceiling), the number is an important one to watch. A higher thermal ceiling, in some cases, can mean shorter battery life, greater heat dissipation or a...

12 October 2005, 10:04

Quad-core chips feel the heat

News However, Kentsfield is essentially two Core 2 Duo processors bolted together onto a chip, so its thermal profile will certainly be higher than a single Core 2 Duo processor. Intel hasn't released thermal specifications for Kentsfield yet, said...

4 August 2006, 10:34

Intel ramps up portable chip effort

News The ultra-low voltage Pentium M Intel sells today has a thermal ceiling, or maximum energy output, of 5.5 watts, although average power consumption is less than a watt. The standard Pentium M has a thermal ceiling of 27 watts.

19 August 2005, 10:04

iRobot unveils sniper detector

News Redowl features a laser pointer and illuminator, an acoustic localiser and classifier, a thermal imager, GPS (Global Positioning System), an infrared and daylight camera, and two wide-angle cameras.iRobot, which also makes the Roomba household...

5 October 2005, 9:34

Physicists re-create nature's best sound system

News Cricket hairs are fine-tuned to detect airflow with energies as small as -- or even below -- thermal noise levels, according to the research. Scientists have re-created the highly sensory hairs of crickets, a development that could lead to next...

23 June 2005, 9:25

Discovery lands with its future up in the air

News Astronaut Stephen Robinson removed fabric protruding between thermal tiles that could have caused heat problems when the shuttle entered the Earth's atmosphere. Even after Discovery's safe landing at a California airstrip after a 14-day mission on...

11 August 2005, 9:18

Photos: Rescue robots strut their stuff

News The 1kg AirRobot, from a German company of the same name, carries still, video and thermal-imaging cameras and can use GPS to measure and track objects and places from the air. Robot makers put their gear into action on Monday for a round of...

23 August 2006, 9:18

Toshiba plans Intel chips for tablet PC

News Because of the thermal constraints of building a PC that is designed to rest on a person's arm for extended periods of time, most early tablet PC designers opted for low-power versions of Intel's Pentium M processor or Transmeta's Crusoe chips.

8 February 2006, 9:02

Can anything douse the battery flames?

News Unfortunately, a short circuit inside a lithium-ion battery can lead to what's known in the industry as a 'runaway thermal reaction'. Ross Dueber, CEO of Zinc Matrix Power, has two words for you: think zinc.

16 August 2006, 10:28

Intel quad-core chip powerful but pricey

News To keep the QX6700 within the same thermal profile as the Core 2 Extreme X6800, Intel reduced the clock speed of the QX6700. Only the most demanding PC users will be able to keep Intel's new quad-core processor satisfied, according to several...

3 November 2006, 10:36

HP doubles up Itanium processors

News We wanted to stay within the thermal footprint of current systems," he said. HP showed off a board at its ENSA@Work customer event in Munich on Tuesday that packs two Madison Itanium2 cores onto a single processor board.

5 May 2004, 13:10

Photos: Tesla charges up electric sports car

News The battery pack has been designed so that a "runaway thermal reaction", or fire, won't occur if one battery cell overheats. The Tesla Roadster, the all-electric sports car, has been rumoured for nearly two years.

Tags: sports, engineering, car, credit

5 February 2008, 9:33

Photos: Deflating a MacBook Air

News After removing a few screws and prying at the thermal paste, we reveal the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and the Intel North Bridge graphics chips. For the sake of full disclosure: our Apple MacBook Air is in working condition before we crack it open.

Tags: ram, board, hard drive, air

6 March 2008, 9:35

Photos: Competition shines at Solar Decathalon

News All of the buildings use both solar-photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert sun to electricity and solar-thermal systems that make hot water. Welcome to the Solar Decathlon at the National Mall in Washington,

15 October 2007, 10:54