PC hard disk system warns of Tsunamis

By John Blau, IDG News Service, 09/07/06

Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be 
interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard 
disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause 
tsunamis.

The Tsunami Harddisk Detector is the brainchild of Michael Stadler, who 
demonstrated the prototype system earlier this week at the Ars Electronica 
exhibition in Linz, Austria.

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090706-pc-hard-disk-system-warns.html
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/09/07/1922214.shtml

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