VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: IBM
Seismographers To Use Accelerometers In Hard Drives To Track Earthquakes
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Type: News
Date: Tuesday 21 September 2010, 06:39 AM
Media: Techcrunch

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This is rather interesting. As you may know, most hard drives include accelerometers for the purpose of determining the drive’s orientation and movement, so that (presumably) the drive head can compensate for it. Seismographers have used distributed networks on laptops for this purpose before, but it seems that the data from laptops is just too unreliable. Fortunately, there’s…
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