Take a Tour of Mount Everest – From Your Smart Phone

A company called  3D RealityMaps has released a new app that lets you take virtual tours using satellite images, of Mount Everest. The app “Mount Everest 3D” by 3D Reality Maps offers the world’s highest-resolution 3D map of the highest mountain on ear …

Glacier Technology Tuesday: New Digital Police Sketch Generator

IQ Biometrix has developed a software package called FACES.  It allows almost anyone, without ever having been trained as a forensic artist, to render a near-photo-quality composite sketch of a human face. The package comes with 4400 different facial f …

Glacier Technology Tuesday: Quantum Computing

Image credit: physicsworld.com Quantum computing uses atomic level particles to do the heavy lifting, where speed and power could be significantly greater, superior to any current ‘super computer.’  So the desire to design a full sized quantum computer …

Glacier Technology Tuesday – Using Nanoparticles for Insulin Delivery

Image Credit: ACS Publications at acs.org US Researchers have come up with a successful way to introduce a nano-particle network into the blood of a diabetes patient that would be able to deliver insulin as needed for up to ten days. The process, succe …

Glacier Technology Tuesday – How About A Stretchable Touch Screen

Glacier Technology Tuesday can produce some interesting results.  Take this for example.  It is a stretchable experimental ‘touch screen’ that allows the user to interact with the screen in new ways. An inexpensive new prototype device called the Obake …

Follow Us On Twitter

Glacier Computer has been on LinkedIn for some time, and we even have a facebook page, but until recently we’d never made the jump to twitter.  Well that time has come.  You can now follow us on twitter as we share links and news about Glacier products …

Glacier Technology Tuesday – US Navy to Deploy Lasers on Ships

Image Credit: Fox News How about laser weapons mounted on Navy vessels?  The Navy announced that is is prepared to deploy Laser Weapons to the US Fleet.  These infrared blow torches are 12 for 12 in taking down targets so next year the Pentagon plans t …

Have Scientists Just Created an Invisibility Cloak?

We like science and technology so when Mashable posted a report that researchers at the University of Texas, Austin had created a light scattering metascreen–we had to check it out. Light scattering metascreen?  See also ‘invisibility cloak.’  Well, s …

Touchscreen PC Submerged Then Hosed off…Fully Powered and Operational

We took a fully functional touchscreen PC,  submerged it in a puddle of muck, then hosed it off, all while plugged in and running.. because we could. This computer  (Glacier – S9000) is made for food processing operations,  outdoor kiosks, farms, or an …

On-Line Training Options for Aerial Lift Operators

Aerial Work Platforms are great places for using rugged computing power.  Wireless data collection when you are elevated above the ground-whether on a fixed, tablet, or hand-held computer–just makes sense.  But before you ever set foot on one you’ll w …