Atom-powered Stinger 553 SFF PC could likely withstand nuclear stresses
By Darren Murph 
posted January 22nd 2009 11:39PM
posted January 22nd 2009 11:39PM
posted January 22nd 2009 11:39PM
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Looks like it's from Fallout 3
mm looks like a robot head :P
I, for one, welcome our Atom-powered-Stinger-553-SFF-PC-wearing overlords.
looks like it's from Bioshock
Surely when the nuclear fallout settles, this will be able to still run Crysis????
yeah but good luck finding an online match
given the fact that it's an Atom, yeah it'll run Crysis, at maybe a blazing .0763 FPS.
But then again, you'll have all the time in the world :)
Why not make it out of a titanium alloy and make it bullet proof.
Seems obvious, a) the case serves as cooling and b) weight.
Awesome. Atom = -1 manliness; Thermonuclear war proof = +100 manliness. Net +99 manliness. I still won't buy one, but props to whomever does.
You'd think it would definitely need to withstand nuclear stresses if it's atom powered.
;-)
Hmm.. ATV-puter?
I read the title and was thinking the Atom processor was going to be put in the missiles
Waits for first video of someone throwing this at a wall while on, then plugging it back in and acting like nothing happened.............
"CodaOctopus Colmek."
Looked like CodeOptimus Colemak.
I was about to BUY that nuclear blast resistant keyboard. So disappointed.
I have no excuse to have thought that, given the nature of the article, but some things my subconscious just latches onto.
'nuclear stresses' probably doesn't even include actual blasts anyways.
Those connections look familiar....similar to ones I've seen on radios and crypto equipment in the armed forces. Why are they on there? Is this an actual military only product?
Those sort of connectors are used everywhere. They're based on a MIL-spec, so they were obviously intended for the armed forces, but they're fantastic for anything from aerospace to motorsport. Deutsch are one of the bigger manufacturers of these style of connectors, we use them at the motorsport team I work at.
There are also Amphenol connectors that look like this. It's just that it is a PITA to order them.
There is a market for these computers, since I was looking to get a rugged computer for a project at work. This one looks like it might work.
And jsut how are you supposed to plug in the USB plugs ??
In the USB ports.
> ... that'll handle mission critical applications.
I hope you haven't mixed that with "business critical" which now due to PR is generally (wrongly) relabeled to "mission critical."
I do not know the name for such systems, but I hear often name "military grade." And the description you give fits well.
Mission critical applications have slightly higher requirements. MC by definition also handles errors of the system itself and must continue operation no matter what. E.g. life support and avionics are one of the classical examples of MC applications.
I want to see a YouTube video of somebody trying to upgrade the RAM in this thing...
lol
If you actually read it your "un named atom cpu" is Low-Power x86 CPU:
* Intel Atom Processor with the US 15W chipset, has all the standard PC interfaces
* 1.4 GHz Clockspeed with Speedstep technology
* Equivalent in Performance to 2.8GHz Pentium 4
Atom-proof?
Man this pc would be perfect for a car. What you say?
So, this is how my Pip-Boy survived all that radiation from that giant crater formerly known as Megaton...
Meanwhile, real soldiers just buy laptops that are cheap enough to replace, and seal the keyboards with plastic wrap.
Real soldiers get their equipment from the army and don't have to buy armor and gear themselves, you confuse reality with computergames.
Anyone know how it copes with water?
It's a mil spec so I would say it's waterproof.
Click the link heh.
Very cool product idea. Too bad that the Colmek Stinger 553 is purely fiction...aka "Vaporware." In fact, I called Colmek this week to find out about availability and pricing, and they admitted that the product is just a conceptual idea, not a COTS product available anytime soon. They seem to be fishing for a customer to fund an NRE project.
Another scary observation I found on their Website, I just noticed that they ripped off the MIL-STD rugged switch and mobile router products that are made by Parvus (www.parvus.com). Colmek has literally cut and paste the product descriptions for the DuraMAR and DuraNET products, tweaked the brand names a little and posted a mock-up of a different CAD rendering to suggest it's their own idea. Who are these guys fooling? Wasn't Colmek in bankupcy just last year? I guess when you're out of money, you resort to these sort of shady marketing tactics. Pretty low.