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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. First post! by kennedy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah baby! on a rolllllll!

  2. I like cheese by vaderhelmet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, yes I do.

  3. Oh goody! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of tho....

    No, seriously! You'd actually be able to cool one of the new AMD chips coming out man!

  4. Test by MaxVincent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Test

  5. Re:Mod him up! Mod him up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bruce who?

  6. Re:Mod him up! Mod him up! by zapfie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    any little thing the guy posted would instantly get modded up to +5 by starstruck moderators.

    That so..

    Please. He got modded up because a lot of us found it funny.

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  7. Re:Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who the fuck is Bruce Perens?

  8. Most Common Messages: by dbCooper0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Most Common Messages: PIGFUCKER Voting is futile

    This is +5 Interesting? I agree with the other replies to this. Redundant (copied from an earlier post), and certainly not "Interesting".

    It would be blatantly "Offtopic" if chrisd hadn't included that line at the end of the submission. I'm somewhat disgusted, I must say. Slashdot needs to concentrate less on getting one front page story an hour out, and more on some psuedo-AI method of checking the moderators' intelligence factor.

    Yes, I said that - meaning something better than metamoderation...like a cross-check with a little icon saying that "this exact phrase has been posted already, and moderators should take note!".

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