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HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology to Cool Chips

Posted by chrisd on from the did-none-of-these-engineers-see-terminator dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Extremetech has an article about how H P has decided to use the spraying tech developed for inkjet printers to cool chips -- and has made a robot that'll wander around data centers, detecting too-hot chips and hosing them down." The article notes that the robot needed about 1 hour of training on the room before it would go about the business of chip cooling. The real advance would be if it achieved sentience and went crazy and became a graffiti taggin' super robot, but I digress.

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  1. the robot will be very affordable. by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the memory chips for it will be insanly outpriced.

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    Je t'aime Stéphanie
  2. Actually... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Funny
    Actually, the robot searches for DMCA-covered data in data centers and sprays the chips with sulphuric acid.

    Only kidding.

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.
  3. Warchalking by krugdm · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real advance would be if it achieved sentience and went crazy and became a graffiti taggin' super robot

    How about letting it wander around town looking for wireless hookups, and then marking where they are, warchalking style.

    Of course, I just had a vision of this thing dressed up like a dog, going around and "marking" it's territory...

  4. A question. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you filled the robot with hot grits, would it automagically find Natalie Portman and spray her down with them?

  5. Third-party Cartridges by bgeer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just heard a report of a strange bug in the new robot: for some reason if it detects a non-HP ink cartridge in the printer, it pulls it out and stomps on it. A patch for this problem is expected in Q3 2009.