Moxa's Touchscreen Panel PC that can withstands Oil and Gas Industry Environments

Moxa's dependable Panel PC (see above image) which can withstands the gas and oil industry environment is powered by third generation dual core Intel® i7 processors, EXPC-1519 operates over -40 to +70°C range and has features and certifications necessary for Class 1, Div. 2; ATEX Zone 2; and IECEx rated dangerous environments. Fanless, solid-state system supports up to 16 GB memory and provides flexible I/O plan to simplify field installations. Along with glove-friendly touch interface, features include glare-free, 1,000 nits, 19 in. LED screen and IP66 (NEMA 4X) enclosure.

"For oil and gas operations, it can be very difficult and expensive to recognize the benefits of modern computing and communications technology, with overheating, dead pixels, and poor system performance being common complaints," explained Thomas Nuth, Moxa's Global Vertical Manager for Oil and Gas. "Our latest panel PC, the EXPC-1519, provides the very latest PC-based technology to hazardous area applications with no compromise in power, reliability, space or feature set."

The EXPC-1519 is held in a sealed IP66, NEMA 4X enclosure designed for efficient heat dissipation, as well as to extend service life by preventing entry of damaging dust, water, chemicals or hostile weather. This all-in-one solution is in stark difference to traditional protection options for panel PCs such as after-market re-engineering, or enclosing the unit in a third-party housing or cabinet that leads to additional space and power requirements, as well as points of failure.

Full Story at http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/touchscreen-panel-pc-withstands-oil-and-gas-industry-environments-20044228

A World's first $9 Computer called CHIP That Can Almost Do It All

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Need a computer about the size of a credit card, look no further. The CHIP is a $9 single-board computer that operates in Linux and can do just about anything you want it to… include playing Quake. This single board computer comprises of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well as optional ports for VGA and HDMI monitors. On board you’ll discover a 1GHz processor, 512 RAM, and 4GB of storage. You can set up a light version of Debian and you can even plug it into something called the PocketCHIP that improves a touchscreen and keyboard to the mix in a package about as big as the original Game Boy.

C.H.I.P. is a computer. It’s small and handy to use. C.H.I.P. do what can computer does like work in LibreOffice and save your documents to C.H.I.P.’s onboard storage. Browse the web and check your email over Wifi. Play games with a bluetooth controller. With dozens of applications and tools preinstalled, C.H.I.P. is ready to do computer things the moment you power it on. The CHIP has already propelled past its $50,000 goal and is now at about $200,000. They expect to ship in one year and they’re a Haxlr8r company so they have some solid manufacturing support.

Details at http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/the-chip-is-a-9-computer-that-can-almost-do-it-all/

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Transparent Windows that performs like LCD Screen

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The secret longing of city daydreamers watching out their office windows at the sad brick walls of the building opposite them may soon be answered thanks to transparent light shutters developed by a group of researchers at Pusan National University in South Korea.

A novel liquid crystal technology allows displays to flip between transparent and opaque states -- hypothetically letting you shift your view in less than a millisecond from urban decay to the Chesapeake Bay.

Their work appears this week in the journal AIP Advances. The idea of transparent displays has been around for a few years, but actually generating them from conventional organic light-emitting diodes has been proven difficult. “The transparent part is constantly open to the background,” said professor Yoon Tae-Hoon, the group's primary investigator. “As a result, they exhibit poor visibility.” Light shutters, which use liquid crystals that can be interchanged between transparent and opaque states by scattering or absorbing the incident light, are one proposed solution to these obstacles, but they come with their own set of problems. While they do increase the visibility of the displays, light shutters based on scattering can't provide black color and light shutters based on absorption can't completely block the background. They aren't particularly energy-efficient either, requiring a continuous flow of power in order to maintain their transparent ‘window’ state when not in use…..

Detailed information at http://www.asianscientist.com/2015/05/in-the-lab/clear-windows-double-lcd-screens/

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