Monday, October 13, 2003
What'll They Think of Next? ... Laptop Airbags!
Australian IT reports:
Australian IT reports:
CARS can sense danger and puff up their air bags. Laptops, too, are getting a similar defense mechanism. Two new models of ThinkPad notebook computers unveiled by IBM come with a chip that can detect when the laptop is accelerating ? such as when it has been accidentally nudged off a table and is plunging to the floor. If the hard drive happens to be reading or writing data at the time, the chip tells the drive to temporarily stop. Hard drives are at their most vulnerable when reading and writing data, so IBM believes the crash-protection chip will help guard against such losses of important information.Perhaps I should buy one of these swanky next protected laptops and affix it to my steering wheel since the car certainly doesn't offer hard drive(r) protection!
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