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Nanovision MIMO 710-S and 720-S USB monitors hands-on {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2009 12:27PM How are they powered? Batteries? Power brick? "Included Dual-USB cable" makes me think they're powered through USB, but it's not clear at all...
Heathrow taxi pods become a glorious, driverless reality {Engadget}
Aug 18th 2009 2:16PM Just if anyone still wonders what this is for - if you've ever been on a bus to a longterm car park at any airport, you'll know. Stop A. Stop B. Stop Z5. And so forth - with these, you just go directly.
Ultimately, they talked about rolling this out across all of Heathrow Airport - need to go from Terminal 4 to Terminal 1 - grab a pod. It makes perfect sense in an airport environment.
Oh, and they run on rubber tires - so they should be able to handle the same kind of terrain than a car (e.g. in snow)...
Sony Ericsson selects next president, appoints Howard Stringer chairman of the board {Engadget}
Aug 17th 2009 5:39AM Rubbish. Ericsson runs and maintains the network for lots of GSM providers around the world, and CDMA is dying. IF Sony creates a mobile phone/PSP hybrid (which is possible, even though the N-Gage has failed several times over), it certainly won't be for CDMA and/or Sprint. It'll probably be on LTE and/or UMTS/GSM.
The Sony/Ericsson market is far larger than only the US.
Pizza Morgana: more new adventure launching next month {Joystiq}
Jul 20th 2009 10:09AM Bleh. I don't know why people enjoy first-person shooters that much. There's nothing adventurous to me about pointing and shooting at objects in a world like it was fun to pull a trigger.
See what I did there? It's all about STORIES, and most shooters are really bad at them. Still - people buy them. Why?
Palm Pre official on O2 and Movistar in Europe, launch "in time for holidays" {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 10:18AM Slap me senseless - that banner HAS to be alive! After the correction, they have now corrected the correction - it now says "in time for christmas", just like everywhere else.
I'll grab some popcorn and watch as this thing mutates - they might change it as we speak :)
Palm Pre official on O2 and Movistar in Europe, launch "in time for holidays" {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 8:31AM Interesting! The screenshot of the German add on Engadget still says "from October", whereas the actual banner on the o2 Germany page now says "in autumn".
Either someone made up a month and now they realized, or someone let slip the exact date as it is planned at the moment, and they didn't really want to let it slip.
My guess is the latter - they're currently aiming for October all over Europe, but there might be shortages/problems/strategic decisions to tweak the date, which is why they don't want to commit.
Still, even the German "autumn" that they have now is more than the press release originally confirmed.
Belkin's Gigabit Powerline Adapter ups the ante for electrical outlet networking {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2009 6:14AM First of all, I rent. I can't start drilling holes into walls.
Secondly, for three years I fought with crappy wireless routers that would reset themselves in the middle of the night. Even if they didn't, I'd get something like 3 Mbit/s while standing right next to then. My roommate started to think that our 12 MBit/s internet was supposed to be that slow, because he didn't know any better.
I eventually gave up and succumbed to a pair of NetGear HDs. I've NEVER had a problem - they're as solid as a cable, and I get 100 MBit/s + actual data rate out of them.
This has been in two seperate flats, plugged into different power outlets. That's European power, by the way, maybe results on US cabling is different.
But I don't know why everyone keeps shooting down Powerline, yet spends years trying to get stupid Wifi working in a steel-and-concrete encrusted basement. I know SO many people with Wifi issues, yet when I tell them about Powerline they're totally flabberghasted.
If you don't need Powerline because your Wifi works, then fine. But if it doesn't (and it never did for me), then you'll be happy to know that there's a rock-solid alternative (in most cases). It's at least worth a shot!
And Gigabit, mhmhm. Will probably be something like 300 MBit/s in reality, but still. I'd just have to move my entire TV and audio equipment off the wall to get to the Powerline adapter. That's how often I had to unplug it - NEVER. It's burried deep behind tons of cables and equipment, and it hardly gets warm at all.
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit gets its own specifications breakdown {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2009 5:39AM Have you ever *been* on a roller coaster with a soundtrack? Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris was the first one, and it's synchronized with the track - meaning if the train is lighter, it goes through the musical segments more quickly. Was quite amazing in 95, with onboard flash cards holding the music back then.
Then there's obviously Rock'n'Roller coaster and Space Mountain in Anaheim, and Hollywood Dream: The Ride at the Universal Studios in Japan. That was obviously the "inspiration" for this (it's the same chain after all), but somehow Engadget only started to care once it hit the homeland a year or two later.
I love having a soundtrack - saying a soundtrack on a roller coaster is unnecessary is like saying the same about movie soundtracks. Sure, you don't NEED them - but they make the experience much more intense.
Video: Better Place's automated electric vehicle battery switch station is faster than Melvin Dummar {Engadget}
May 13th 2009 8:27AM And waste a lot energy creating the Hydrogen in the first place. The same applies to "bio" fuels grown on fields - in order to turn that stuff into real fuel, you need/lose that much energy that you better off powering a generator with it directly and running off REAL electricity.
Data Copy and Internet Connection Sharing dongle explains itself {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 9:14AM Daisy-chaining: And then the guy in the middle gets up and leaves - and the Command & Conquer session by the guys around him breaks down. Been there, done that, with 10Base2/BNC/Coax cabling. There's a reason why everyone dumped it as soon as 10BaseT became affordable...
