In the past, TechRepublic Cracking Open Photo Galleries have received comments that were confrontational and unnecessarily malicious. Please keep in mind that TechRepublic is not an engineering Web site -- our arena is business information technology. Cracking Open galleries are a joyful indulgence.

If you have pertinent information regarding the technology shown in the images you are encouraged to share. In this exercise, I am not the expert -- but you just might be -- there is no reason to be rude.