guts
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Memory Rug Puts A PC’s Guts On Your Floor
Had the Persian Empire had access to modern electronics, its famous woven rug designs might have ended up looking more like Lukas Scherrer’s Memory Rug. Made from multiple layers of felt so it’s more comfortable under foot than silicon and solder, the rug is adorned with a pattern of chips, conductors and other shapes you’ll…
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Intel’s Thunderbolt Revamped For Blistering 20Gbps, Beautiful 4K
Thunderbolt’s makin’ like greased lighting. Intel has just introduced the newest revision of the interface, and it will be capable of 20Gbps in both directions (as opposed to the previous 10).
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World’s Fastest Computer Is Being Slowed Down By Too Much Gold
Last November, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer was named the fastest in the world. But it turns out that a few tests were skipped along the way — and now too much gold on its motherboards means it can’t run at full tilt.
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The ABCs Of A Camera’s Guts
What’s lovely about this alphabet made from camera parts by London graphic design student Stefan Abrahams is that it organises a camera’s beautiful internals as carefully as one should frame a picture. Each letter has a camera part, you can see the viewfinder as ‘D’ and the shutter curtain as ‘R’.