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British Library packs its least requested items into new, robot-operated facility in Leeds

The British Library’s just taken the wraps off a new facility up in Leeds where they’ll now house some lesser used items (things like patent specs and Martin Amis’ diner receipts). The new digs are a £26 million (that’s about $43 million) building in West Yorkshire controlled by seven robot operators capable of pulling items and taking them to a retrieval area when they’ve been requested by librarians. Hit the BBC Source link to check out the futuristic system for yourself.

British Library packs its least requested items into new, robot-operated facility in Leeds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MSI retools Wind Box DE200 and DC200, puts ‘em up for pre-order

Well, what do you know? Last we saw MSI’s Wind Box DE200, it was sittin’ pretty at a booth at CeBIT. Evidently it has seen quite the makeover since that debut, with the latest imagery showing it (alongside the DC200) with far edgier enclosures. We have to say we dig the new digs, but we’re most excited about the US pricing and pre-order pages. Both units are still (under)powered by a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, and predictably, both feature 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home running the show. No firm release date has been nailed down for the US market, but Amazon has ‘em both up for pre-order right now at $249.99 (DC200) / $299.99 (DE200).

[Via iTechNews]

Read – MSI press release
Read – Wind Box DC200 pre-order page
Read – Wind Box DE200 pre-order page

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MSI retools Wind Box DE200 and DC200, puts ‘em up for pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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