Collaborate Disseminate
As computing power increases with each new iteration of processors, actual power consumption tends to increase as well. All that waste heat has to go somewhere, and while plenty of …read more Continue reading Upgrading PC Cooling With Software
Air conditioners are easy to take for granted. From refrigerators to climate control, most of us would miss them dearly if they disappeared. That’s part of what draws [Josh Levine]’s interest in air conditioners, and he has provided an interesting tour of several different units and how different they can …read more
Continue reading See How Wildly Different Air Conditioners Can Be (On The Inside)
If your workshop has ceilings as high as [Niklas Roy]’s 3.6 meters (11.8 feet), then you’re familiar with his problem. Hot air rises, and there it usually stays until the heat is transferred outdoors. But in the winter time we need that heat indoors and down low. One solution is to install ceiling fans that blow that hot air back down. However, [Niklas] often builds tall things that would collide with those fans. And so he had to hack together some wall hugging fans which will be both high up and out of the way.
For the fans he’s using …read more
Continue reading Winter Is Coming: Keeping Heat Where It’s Needed
The good thing about using a server-grade machine as your desktop is having raw computing power at your fingertips. The downside is living next to a machine that sounds like a fleet of quadcopters taking off. Luckily, loud server fans can be replaced with quieter units if you know what you’re doing.
Servers are a breed apart from desktop-grade machines, and are designed around the fact that they’ll be installed in some kind of controlled environment. [Juan] made his Dell PowerEdge T710 tower server a better neighbor by probing the PWM signals to and from the stock Dell fans; he …read more
For the first time ever, 15,000 die-hard gamers were allowed into the industry’s most exclusive trade show—and they are so pure and full of hope. Continue reading E3 Opened to the Public, and the Public Loved It
The Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link is one temperature-and-air-quality regulator to rule them all. The post Dyson Crams a Heater, Fan, and Air Purifier Into One Device appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Dyson Crams a Heater, Fan, and Air Purifier Into One Device
A new paper shows how data can be extracted from computers without an internet connection or audio hardware. Continue reading Researchers Make Malware That Steals Data by Spinning Your Computer’s Fans
