Low power

For the past couple of years, UNICEF Uganda and partners have been designing, developing, prototyping and rolling out youth-focused community computers that can operate on- or off-grid. The UK's Aleutia is now working on a new open source, low power computer system for the updated Digital Drum.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a system that they say eliminates the need for power supplies for Wi-Fi connections by using radio frequency backscatter technology.

Scientists over at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) have invented a paper thin flexible computer keyboard that's claimed capable of transforming any area into a touch-sensitive surface.

Israel's mini-PC maker CompuLab has launched a high performance, ruggedized, fanless server named the uSVR.

IBM researchers have used the world's most powerful supercomputer to simulate a virtual brain comparable in complexity to that of a human.

CompuLab is now offering a new version of its Intense PC fanless mini computer that features a third generation Intel Core i7 processor.

CompuLab's most powerful fanless mini-PC to date, the Intense PC is based around Intel's second gen Core i processors, has up to 16GB of RAM and is ready for either HDD or SSD storage.

CompuLab's low power fit-PC3 compact computer has been redesigned and updated, and is now available to buy.

Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a new low-power digital memory which uses much less power and is faster than other solutions currently available.

The DreamPlug from Globalscale Technologies offers application developers a low cost, low power computing solution in the increasingly popular compact plug form factor

CompuLab has announced that the next fit-PC will sport an AMD G-Series APU and, although not being quite as energy efficient as its predecessor, still comes in well below most desktop computers.

CompuLab has announced a new miniature computer powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processing platform that's said to be its smallest, most energy efficient model to date.