Saturday, October 31, 2009

Table Cooling system for your PC

Drazen Smokovic, an inventor from Croatia has developed a new concept cooling system integrated into office desks. The concept named CoolT (as in cool table) is a very intriguing idea for the near future, the gold medal for innovation is proof of that.








CoolT was on display on this years CeBIT, and now in Geneva where it got the gold medall for innovation.


The concept behind the CoolT project is fairley simple, the table is made of hollow metal pipes. The hot air from the computer is run through the pipes and is cooled, each table has a large radiator back to ensure propper cooling of air. But the main advantage is not the cooling power of the system, it's the absence of dust, since the table is a closed system, no dust can accumulate inside the computer, so no hardware maintence is needed, the fans never jam, the coolers never need cleaning, the slots never fill up with dust...



The interest for the new concept is great, there have been offers from major companies to buy off and continue the project for themselves, without the inventor.
„I have been developing this concept for too long, and i know very well how this can be done properley, and the thought of leaving the project never crossed my mind, no way, im givving up on this!“ Said the CoolT inventor in one of the interviews.

Java goes Open Source

"At this point, it is not a question of whether, but it is a question of how" Sun will open-source Java, said the company's new executive vice president of software, Rich Green, at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
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Green called upon developers and members of the Java Community Process for feedback on the best way to open source Java. He didn't provide say when he expects open source Java to be available.

IBM said in the past, that makingthe Java source code public would attract more developers to the language because it guarantees Java's independent development.

Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, said Sun "may have let some of the better opportunities slip away" by not nurturing Java in recent years as other easy-to-use programming languages popped up in the market.

In an attempt to open more markets that may help Sun Microsystems, Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, will announce today that the software code for more of Sun's Java programming tools and technologies will be available for free as well as a new version of Sun's Java platform and technology that enables it to work better with the competing .net framework from Sun's onetime bitter rival, Microsoft