Photos: Roll up this laptop: "Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a laptop that can be rolled up as easily as a paper, A team of engineers at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge has developed "morphing materials" that make it possible to roll up a laptop screen as easily as a newspaper.
This prototype, created by Keith Seffen, a lecturer in structural engineering at the University of Cambridge, holds the main electronic components by wooden strips on the vertical sides of the screen.."
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Photos: Roll up this laptop
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Flaming LAX laptop was a ThinkPad
Flaming LAX laptop was a ThinkPad: "Lenovo confirms that one of its laptops caught fire, but it doesn't yet know if Sony batteries were inside. A burning laptop that frightened passengers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend was a ThinkPad, Lenovo confirmed Wednesday, and that notebook ships with Sony's battery technology.
The incident, described by a poster at the Web site Something Awful, involved a passenger running back up the jetway as a plane was boarding with a smoking laptop that eventually caught fire. Lenovo dispatched a team of investigators to Los Angeles within 12 hours of the incident, and confirmed that the laptop was a ThinkPad T43, said Ray Gorman, a company spokesman.
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