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Wearable Computer Expedition Reaches South Pole
henrym writes: "Tom and Tina Sjogren have reached the South Pole after skiing in for two months wearing portable computers. Their web site hasn't been updated to reflect this fact, but our station manager has just come back from greeting them as they reached the pole. Details of their expedition can be found at thepoles.com. Henry Malmgren, South Pole Station Network Engineer" It's not every day we get a story submission from the South Pole.
Their web site hasn't been updated to reflect this fact,
Not very good computers then.
Are they running linux.
Is it because they wanted some Penguins?
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(if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
I hope if they're in the South Pole they're wearing more than just a computer.
Technology has gone too far. "South Pole" indeed.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Some nerds can be that obsessed with penguins?!
That, or they were desperate overclockers looking for the ultimate cooling solution.
"expidition" as "exhibition"...
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Imagine this: The 2020 wearables exhibition: Now at the South Pole
And then they wonder why so few people came...
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
It's amazing how much the wearable eye monitor looks like a refugee from the film Aliens. Cool!
They went to all that trouble to serve up a webpage from the south pole. They surely can't have that much bandwidth at the south pole then they go and get slashdotted.
Well at least their systems wont need any cooling.
mark
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
now you can get beat up on the south pole, too!
It's cold. We are tired. Be glad when we get there. Wish you were here.
Sent from your iPad.
They will meet TUX there...
AMD has produced video footage of an AMD-based PC that keep on working even when the heat sink is removed. When questioned about the results, AMD Spokesman just mentioned something about a "secret laboratory down south"...
Ain't that a good idea?
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
I guess they maybe went a little far for to solve overheating problems...
Fingers freezing. Palm pilot stuck to chest. Must run cpu-heavy routines for warmth. So cold.
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Customized technology west's
Shoulder mounted web camera
Lithium-Ion batteries
Satellite phone
Power converters
I was wondering how they powered all that stuff, and now I feel like an idiot. I was thinking fuel cells, batteries (which, granted, they did have) wind power and the rest, but completely missed THE SUN.
Funny what you don't think about when you live in a metropolis. I miss the country.
Triv
Damn. Bad Pun.
as a pioneer of wearable computers.
back in 1989 I was in the first year of highschool here in brasil and my stepfather gave me an HP-15C, a very cool calculator.
Well, the desks at the school were too damn small to fit notepads, pens AND the calculator so I tied it to wristband and started using it in my left wrist. one of the first wearable puters ever.
now everyone is copying my ideas and I don't see money flowing to my pockets. not fair.
What ? Me, worry ?
Lynx works perfectly fine, it only displays one level of indentation and allows me to view pages at -1 without any annoyance.
Click here
Makes me real glad I live in Florida!
Just finished a fascinating book about the great English polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. His main philosophy was to Explore and Serve which might be translated in this case to Explore and Surf
Book: Shackletons Way
--Explore and serve
.. they might be able to keep warm down there :D
Almost like a flight data recorder in case they happen to encounter some kind of catastrophic event down there, we could recover their wearable computer gear and hopefully find out what went wrong.
So long as their wearable computers aren't running windows (otherwise that probably would be what went wrong)!
My sig hates me. That's ok, I never cared for it much anyway.
After all, it takes a strong person to hike for miles in a climate that reaches -70 F in the summer!
And you're sitting on your fat ass posting crap on Slashdot. Do the math.
A friend of mine will be running the Antarctica Marathon
quote: "4 continents down, 3 to go..."
Oh, BTW, their official URL is here.
;-)
DISCLAIMER: Do not click there. It's a weak sattelite link. Under any circumstance, do not click.
Hi Mar"c", hi Tom.
CNN manager talking to a reporter: Now Jones, it was a bad, bad thing when you drove up to that crime scene and ran over the body. The police were very angry with us. Very angry indeed. Now, now, I know it was an accident.
Fire you? No, no, everyone makes mistakes, Jones. Why, when I was a young cub like yourself, I made a few in my day, too.
In fact, I have little assignment for you, Jones. Right up your alley. Let me show you this map...
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Thanks! I didn't think it was wide enough either!
... they're going to the North Pole too. In March.
:)
http://www.thepoles.com/guide/schedule.htm
Luis, who isn't surprised that the times shown in the page are in Chilean Time.
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
Looks like they're using Iridium phones.
Apparently, they have gone insane...
www.pantscam.com
(Shrug.. it did say wearable computers)
http://www.thepoles.com/? Shouldn't it have been http://www.thepoles.aq/?
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
When I saw this story, my first thought was "how did they design robots which could travel across Antarctic terrain?".
The idea that the "wearable computer expedition" actually included people somehow didn't occur to me.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
IE6 works fine.
/. to see the real truth.
I'm sure the page widener is just a linux zealot that doesn't want the rest of
Since getting modded down results in a ban, nowadays, I gotta be careful. You won't see much of me until my Karma is low enough.
Cheers!
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South Pole Live Camera.
or check out our South Pole Web Page.
Tom and Tina Sjorgen
That would be Sjögren, and it's Swedish. It's not THAT hard to spell, is it? Ericsson is a Swedish surname too, but in this case it's the name of the company sponsoring the expedition, if I'm not mistaking.
Strange thing is that the submitter is a swede...
Next place I want to bring my computer is deep underwater while diving.
Yo, you wanna go? Keep it up. I'll meet you anywhere you want, for a good old fashioned fistfight. Just be ready to have your a-- handed to you.
Nah. I just wanna sit back and watch you beat yourself.
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With the posting of this news bit, have you now posted stories from every corner of the world?
Just curious...So how do we get power down there ?
Yeah the stations on the high Antarctic plateau may not have too much power requirements but they use mainly diesel generators.
The Americans used a nuclear generator taken from a Sub years ago but they kept having problems with it and it's now been removed because the Antarctic Treaty forbids it.
In summer there's plenty of sun, so solar panels are used, but in winter there's none. In the center of Antarctica there's not too much wind (I studied at Dome C where most winds are 'born' and there's not enough to power a fan. On the other hand, on the coast you get demented winds that will break anything.
The French experimented with a heat transfer system that had it's highest efficiency in cold winds. The colder and faster the better. But it wasn't too conclusive.
And if you just want power for your palmtop, take L91 Lithium Energizer batteries, the only ones that work below -50C...
Non-Linux Penguins ?
I am interested in going on an expedition like this to the South Pole, are there any companies that offer tour packages etc.. to the S.P.??
what about a knife fitgh??
He is too! From www.thepoles.com/:
The expedition members, Thomas Sjogren (born in Sweden, now resident of US) and Tina Sjogren (born in former Czechoslovakia, political refugee in Sweden from the age of nine, now resident in the US) are not new to expeditions.
This Bank of America series is, by FAR, the best reason to read at -1. All the other trolling, flooding, etc. is totally worthless and boring. But this ATM stuff is fucking hilarious.
Stupid Windows user... bringing a knife to a gun fight.
I worked KC4AAA the other night on 20 Meters (Around 14.238Mhz) The station operator's name is Skip. You can hear them on the air almost every night.
--fatboy
I remember seeing some TV program about some travelling to the North pole(I think it was) and on their way seeing abandoned stations. Big metal buildings looking like metal containers. The most expensive stuff was removed but old cans of food etc, could still be found there, creepy. I wish I could remember more, and I'll bet there's a page or two on the net about it. Oh well, time to think of a clever query on Google.
You know, in a few hundred years, it won't be so near the south pole anymore. Heh. I also find it amusing that the "south pole" (as in an actual pole stuck in the ice/snow) has to be readjusted constantly. I guess that's what you get for building stuff on a glacier =]
What?