A Glacier In The Rainforest?

How do you use a Glacier to promote spider-silk farming in Costa Rica? You Donate it to the Forman school. Forman School is a college-preparatory boarding and day school with a vital purpose: to deliver an unparalleled education for students with learn …

Helping You Prosper in Harsh Environments

In medical, industrial, vehicle-mount, and military deployments, Glacier Computer rugged tablets and rugged PCs have withstood harsh temperatures, vibration, and humidity in wet and dirty environments. If you need a rugged tablet, check out the Glacier …

Glacier Computer Introduces the T707 Rugged Tablet

Tablet Pictured with Docking Station FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Glacier Computer Adds Another Member to their Family of Rugged Tablet Offerings T707    RUGGED – CONFIGURABLE – JUST SMALLER New Milford, CT – September 1, 2013 – Glacier Computer, a leading p …

It’s Good to Have Options – T710 Tablet Docking Options

Glacier Computer’s new T710 Rugged Tablet Computer is getting a lot of attention, and docking options are an important part of that mix. Having a tablet computer that is completely sealed from dust and particulates and can withstand a water bombardment …

Is The T710 Rugged Tablet The One You’ve Been Waiting For?

Our newest Rugged Tablet could be the mobility solution you’ve been waiting for. Glacier T710 The T710 rugged tablet is completely sealed from dust and particulates and can withstand a water bombardment of 12.5 liters per minute from a nozzle. Dropping …

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 …

Laser Scanning And Mobile Computing Meet The Construction Industry

The Journal of Commerce reports that Construction and excavation operations are taking advantage of mobile technology and 3D laser scanners to do what used to take hours or days. “The 3D laser scanner creates thousands of point clouds to take measureme …

What’s In Your Mobile Work-Force?

You’ve heard about it.  The global mobile workforce.  Well it’s growing. The number of mobile workers across the globe will reach 1.3 billion by 2015 but research commissioned by ClickSoftware Technologies indicates that companies are not ready to tap …

Part III -Why Does a Rugged Tablet Cost More Than an iPad?

Need another reason why Rugged Tablets cost more than consumer tablets?  We’ve got two. The expectations and needs of the customer define how you are able to manufacture the product, and in the case of Rugged Tablets and the average consumer tablet, th …

Part II -Why Does a Rugged Tablet Cost More Than an iPad?

There is great divide between what a consumer expects from a Tablet PC and what a commercial user demands for the efficiency of their work space.  The differences between the two create the kind of engineering challenges that are not limited to how muc …