It is further enabled by increasing feasibility of constructing a Mobile High Performance Computer (MHPC) using rugged computer hardware with form factors that can be deployed in vehicles.
It's an effort by One Laptop Per Child (laptop.org) to develop a very low-cost, high-potential, extremely rugged computer for the two billion educationally underserved children in poor countries.
The device Dr. Struger invented, essentially a rugged computer that controls machinery, was based on a concept developed in his doctoral dissertation at the Technical University of Austria and is ubiquitous in factories throughout the world.
If all goes as planned, the technology left behind on and beneath the ice -- including compact, rugged, computer-controlled instruments similar to space probes -- will create the first continuous profile of changes in the air, ice and ocean depths at the pole itself.
MILTOPE GROUP, Hope Hull, Ala., a maker of rugged computers that have been used by United States forces in the Iraqi desert, said it had agreed to be bought by an unidentified buyer for as much as $36.2 million.
The Naval Equipment division provides warship diesel engine, shipboard weapons and launchers, communications and navigation equipment, and rugged computers.
Handheld Group, the global supplier of rugged computers, today introduced the Nautiz X3®, Handheld's smallest and lightest rugged handheld PDA yet.
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE Getac Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of rugged computers that meet the demands of field-based applications, announced it is incorporating Intel's powerful Core™ i7 2.0 GHz processor, MAX 2.8GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, into its popular B300 rugged notebook.
The instrument is composed by a dedicated electronic measurement circuitry embedded inside a rugged tablet computer for control and visualization and that interfaces a small footprint planar eddy currents probe.
The Zypad WR1100 is a 23 ounce, rugged, wireless computer operating with a Linux OS.
If you've been reading CrunchGear since this past summer, you should probably call a psychiatrist immediately may remember the iKey AK-39 military-grade wrist keyboard, which was basically a small-ish keyboard made for a soldier to wear on his or her wrist in order to manipulate a rugged, portable computer.
