Abstract: A cooler having an integrated table for providing added surface area on which objects could be supported without obstructing access to the lid of the cooler includes a cooler base having an integrated receptacle area, handle, a plurality of cup holders, a plurality of wheels, and a tow handle, as well as a lift off top lid and a hingedly attached integrated table. While the cooler base and top lid are constructed and operate substantially as conventional coolers, the integrated table is configured to selectively lift up from the top of the cooler base, moving between a closed position and an deployed. In operation, when the integrated table is placed in the deployed position, it provides a flat horizontal support surface positioned such that the top lid of the cooler can be opened and closed without requiring the objects on the integrated table to be moved.

Abstract: A reconfigurable advanced rapid-prototyping environment (RARE) solution provides a three-dimensional (x, y, z) interconnection fabric that is a modular, reconfigurable, fully scalable high performance computing architecture. RARE allows processing nodes (modules) to communicate with other processing nodes (modules) in a three-dimensional mesh architecture where every processing node (module) has access to all other nodes (modules) in the system. The RARE architecture is a modular form-factor design which is fully stand-alone. It does not require the use of a backplane or chassis infrastructure for connectivity. RARE is widely scalable and provides full cross-channel communication in all three dimensions (x, y, z). RARE yields a scalable and morphable hardware architecture for a processing system where the system can scale by one module at a time without limit and it can take on any shape and those shapes can be easily changed.