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Underwater Computer For Ocean Research

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-machines dept.

Jafa writes "Following the article on space laptops, here's an article on a computer built for underwater. Not as in a typical dive computer, or for higher pressure air environments, but wet and under pressure. The article is fairly short on technical details, but it sounds like it uses key chords in place of a typical keyboard. We've got space, underwater, and nano. What other frontiers or environments are left for computers to work in?"

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  1. New environment: war by Polo · · Score: 4

    Here is a link to the Army Landwarrior system which uses ruggedized 4x1x8" dual-processor pentium systems to help foot soldiers. It's part of the Advanced Warfighting Experiment. The systems are encased in gel to ruggedize them, cool then and shock proof them.

    The scary part - they run win 2k

  2. Other environments... by jmv · · Score: 4

    What other frontiers or environments are left for computers to work in?

    What about very hot environments? It would be pretty easy to make a computer work at very cold temperature, but what about one that would work at very hot temperature like would be needed for a mission to Venus (200-400 C). This is really a fundamental semi-conductor problem. Does anyone know what's the hottest environment they've managed to make a processor run so far?

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