moisture

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Computers

New MacBooks Will Totally Tell Mum If You Take Them Swimming

7:38PM John Herrman | The new MacBook and MacBook Pro don’t just want to impress you with their fancy new fabrication techniques, unibody designs and bolstered performance: they want to make you more honest, at least when it comes to reporting water damage. According to the service manuals, the new line of MacBooks include submersion sensors, designed to indicate if the laptops have been exposed to excessive levels of moisture and/or dropped in your toilet. More »
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Peripherals

USB Can-Shaped Humidifier Mixes Weirdness with Moisturising Power

9:17PM Kit Eaton | This isn’t the first USB-powered humidifier you’ve seen, but it may be the weirdest: it comes shaped and painted like a drink can. It uses ultrasound to generate “cool, moisturising steam” at the rate of 50ml per hour, which may sound attractive to you if your office environment is one of those over-air-conditioned ones. Though, nowadays in this crazy world, having a can on your desk connected to a computer and giving off bouts of “steam” is probably something you want to explain to your office mates if you don’t want to cause a panic. Yours, from Brando and in several can colours for just US$24. [Brando] More »
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Science

Moisture Vaporators Spotted In Buenos Aires

8:00AM Jack Loftus | The Buenos Aires government would have done the late Owen Lars proud with their newly installed US$5 million Intelligent Monitoring Towers. Designed to collect information about the city’s air and noise quality, we can easily see these 42 towers being at home collecting moisture on a dusty planet in a certain binary star system far, far away. The towers measure cobalt, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, benzene and humidity (just like on Tatooine!). More »
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