Saturday, December 7, 2013

Customizable Android tablet is MIL-SPEC rugged









From:  http://linuxgizmos.com




InHand Electronics announced the Hydra-F6, a customizable, MIL-SPEC ruggedized, 7-inch, WSVGA tablet that runs Android 4.2 on a Freescale i.MX6 SoC.

 


InHand’s Hydra-F6 tablet is built around its Fury-F6 embedded board for the dual- and quad-core models and its similar Siren-F6 for the single-core version of the Cortex-A9-based Freescale i.MX6. Announced in August, the 2.5 x 2.5-inch Fury-F6 falls into that netherworld between computer-on-modules and single board computers.

It lacks real-world ports, instead relying on a separate expansion card.

With that addition, it’s also available in an enclosed mini-PC development platform configuration.









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Processor — Freescale i.MX6 (1x, 2x, or 4x Cortex-A9 cores @ 1.2GHz) via Fury-F6 or Siren-F6 (single-core) boards
    Memory — 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB DDR3; 16GB or 32 GB eMMC flash
    Display:
        7-inch, 1024 x 600 resistive multitouch
        Automatic brightness control
        Sunlight-readable
    Wireless:
        802.11b/g/n
        Bluetooth 2.1
        LTE (Verizon, optional)
    Sensors:
        GPS
        Accelerometer
        Ambient light sensor
        Digital compass
        Barometer
    Camera — 5-megapixel (supports barcode scanning)
    Other features — Stereo speakers; mic; 4x user buttons; volume, power buttons; haptic vibrator; hand straps
    Expansion connector:
        2x USB 2.0 host
        USB 2.0 client
        I2C/SMBus
        SPI
        CANBus
        10/100/1000 Ethernet
        HDMI
        SATA
    Battery — 37WHr 3.7V Lithium Polymer battery with Qi wireless charging; 8-10 hours typical usage
    Ruggedization:
        MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461F compliant
        -35 to 75°C operating temperature
        IP67 waterproofing (immersion at 1m for 30 min.)
        Fluid contaminant, solar radiation, and fungus protection
        Method 516.6 resistance to shock, vibration, drops
    Dimensions — 213.9 x 150.4 x 24.9mm (8.42 x 5.92 x 0.98 inches)
    Weight — 698 g (24.4 oz)
    Operating system — Android 4.2.2; Linux or Windows Embedded upon request

“Clients, like OEMs in military, medical or industrial markets, can easily leverage InHand’s custom design expertise and Hydra-F6 to quickly meet any project specifications — creating a solution on time and under budget,” stated Rodney Feldman, Director of Systems Engineers at InHand.



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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 046 Steve Jobs on Text Books and Backpacks


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Apple Introduces Technology that Makes School Textbooks Obsolete by Switching to the iPad January 25th, 2012 Posted in Steve Jobs Blog Posts.

Apple wants students to stop lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks and to switch to the iPad instead.

On Thursday the company introduced three free pieces of software revolving around education. It released iBooks 2, a new version of its electronic bookstore, where students can now download textbooks; iBooks Author, a Macintosh program for creating textbooks and other books; and iTunes U, an app for instructors to create digital curriculums and share course materials with students.



From:  http://stevejobsnow.net





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Just Wow: Steve Wozniak's Backpack Crammed Full of Gadgets





This is what Steve Wozniak carries around in his 50 pound backpack that's reportedly made him shorter over the years.







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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 045 Plextor Launches Affordable SSDs with Non-Declining Performance.








From:   http://www.xbitlabs.com



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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 044 Convert MS Word Docs to e-Books for Free






The Smashwords e-book-publishing service transforms Word's DOC files into the EPUB, MOBI, and other e-book formats, but only if  you shun text boxes, tables, and other common formatting elements in the file, as the handy Smashwords guide explains.   





From:  http://howto.cnet.com








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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 43 Pentagon's Zombie Satellite Program Comes to Life




From:  http://www.wired.com

The Pentagon’s intergalactic black-magic plot 
is getting ready to raise the dead.

Dead satellites, that is. Last year, Darpa, the military’s blue-sky research agency, kicked off a program designed to harvest parts from unused communications satellites still orbiting the Earth, and then turn those bits and pieces — antennas in particular — into an array that operates as a low-cost “communications farm” for troops on the ground







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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 042 Twisted Light Wifi Creates Connectivity Fast Lane 2,4 Terabit Per Second





From:  http://www.forextv.com

The internet is about to get the equivalent of an express lane as a result of new wireless technology developed by American and Israeli scientists.  High-speed wireless transmission of up to 2.5 terabits per second may be possible by what is being called "twisted, vortex beams."  It is essentially a new wifi protocol that uses light beams more efficiently that what is currently in use.







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Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror







Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Linux by Knight Post 046 Unity alternatives - the many desktops of Ubuntu


From:  http://www.h-online.com



GNOME Shell and Cinnamon
KDE, Xfce and LXDE

Ubuntu's Unity is far from the only desktop environment available for the distribution. For users who want to stay with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but prefer another desktop environment, there are plenty of alternatives to try.





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