smart computer use?

If you’ve used a laptop to any extent in your career as a computer user, you understand how much it pretty much sucks that laptops batteries need to be charged A LOT.

The day when you have a laptop that can run without charging for up to a month may be near.

Puiu Tiberius from Digitpedia.com writes:

Samsung SDI has presented, at one of their own shows, a new notebook prototype feeded by a “fuel cell” system, which apparently would have a autonomy of no less then one month(yeah, as in 30 days!).

Of course, being a fuel cell, there is re-fueling involved. This wouldn’t be a simple “plug into the wall to recharge” type of scenario.

Read the article here.

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It is amazing that it’s taken this long for this simple yet useful security to get put to use for the masses, in the form of a PIN Protected USB Flash Device. John E. Dunn of Techworld writes:

Memory company Corsair has come up with an ingeniously simple way to secure USB flash drives without having to remember a password – build a PIN-based ‘padlock’ into the drive itself.

Read the article here.

I’ll probably pick up one of these if I see them on the shelf somewhere. I can see lots of use, particularly for business purposes, for this type of USB Flash device. I never really carry around sensitive data on a flash card, but sometimes I do transport information that pertains to website ftp access and such. Even a password file gets transported every now and then.

A small security measure to make a device more inaccessible to those that like to dig into data for kicks sound just fine to me.

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Google already does a bunch of other stuff pretty damn well.

A Google operating system? Some are dreaming. I would venture to guess that an operating system engineered by Google would probably be pretty useful.

Anyways, click here to read more and to get excited about the possibility of a Google operating system.

Based on the products that I already like from Google, I bet I’d like an operating system that they came up with. But at the same time Linux is very nice.

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