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No Duh: LG's Solar Hybrid Air Conditioner Is a Good Thing

Kudos to LG Electronics for creating the Most Obvious Product That No One's Ever Made. With all these new-fangled concepts coming out for solar-powered cellphone chargers and drink coasters and what-have-you, it makes the most sense to craft an eco-friendly device that performs the best in high-sun seasons and whose traditional counterparts are electrical siphons of the worst sort. We present to ...

Air Conditioners and Data Loss

In the next month or so, when the stinky sweat of summer sets in, don't be so quick to turn down the thermostat. According to Ben Carmichel of ESS Data Recovery, that AC unit may be killing your computer's hard drive. It has nothing to do with temperature or humidity, but rather the power spikes and brownouts that the average conditioner creates as it clicks on and off. These surges wreak havoc ...