Your computer might consume as much energy as a hair dryer and all the power bricks around your house are trying to slowly but steadily empty your wallet. We thought we had to do something against that. A few facts about energy consumption and a few hints for how you can help save power, money and the environment.

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A short report about the “Robot-Stories” workshop in Zürich, Switzerland. Under the supervision of the f18 institute, an entire roomful of kids ages 14 to 18 spent five days building autonomous robots and other scary electromechanical devices. We interview Stefan Doepner of f18 to find out what this particular workshop was all about and what f18’s goals are in hosting such workshops in the first place.

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Computers are all around us, but most of them are too small or too well hidden to notice. These devices are called embedded systems or embedded computers. Special guest Armijn Hemel discusses the present, the past and the future of embedded computing.

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In High Density’s very first episode we tell you how to subscribe to video podcasts and we explain a few of the key concepts behind internet broadcasting.

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