[Dclug] laptop foot charger

[Phil Shapiro]

hi dclug community,

  this prototype laptop foot charger is quite fascinating. i'd love to see this
paired with a low-power linux netbook. 

http://tinyurl.com/bjx9sl

   this device is not yet on the market, but it might come to market soon, it
looks like. 

   it sure would be neat for users to be able to reduce the clock speed of the
computer to the needs of a particular application. for example, word processing
usually doesn't need much processing power, so it would be neat if a person
could reduce the clock speed of the processor when using less processor
demanding apps. 

     from what i understand, intel's atom processor requires 1/10 the energy of
the processors used in netbooks last year. 

       that's a step forward -- as is this foot charger.

              phil


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