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An electronic pen from Adapx Inc. contains technologythat enables military personnel to transferinformation back and forth from the battlefieldusing handwriting or marks on a map rather thankeystrokes on computers.With the Penx digital pen, warfighters can performa number of tasks, such as plotting the positionsof objects and features on maps and sharingthat information with commanders at anotherlocation. The pen can go anywhere military personneland a paper map can go.It like a regular pen, but when writing on Adapxdigital paper, the pen creates digital ink. Digitalpaper, which can be used with color printers, hasa watermark of almost imperceptible dots calledan Anoto pattern. A pattern of dots embedded inthe printed document reveals the content of thewriting. As users make notes and annotations,Penx records the exact movements of the pen andstores that information in its built-in memory untiluploaded into a Microsoft Windows-based PC.Capturx for ArcGIS is essential to the pen's performance.That application's collection processresults in accurate, real-time digital information.Using the digital data application, warfighters canprint maps containing intelligence gathered viasatellites or unmanned aerial vehicles.Samsung introduced a new 1T hard drivedesigned for applications such as databases,e-mail and Web servers, supercomputing, softwaredevelopment, data warehousing, surveillance, callcenters, and backup storage systems.The F1R 3.5 features a combination of highcapacity, high performance, high reliability andlow power by using only three storage platters andrunning at 7,200 rpm.The F1R incorporates proprietary technologiesto achieve increased performance and lowerpower consumption than other drives. The three-platterstructure provides a higher data storagedensity per platter, resulting in faster data-processingspeeds when compared with other 1Tdrives.The optimized electronics and power-savingmodes reduce power consumption and dissipateheat for cool operating temperatures.