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Forget HDTV and 3D, when is Ultra HDTV / Super Hi-vision coming home? {Engadget HD}
Nov 4th 2009 5:51PM I might save my money for digital bionic eye implants first, so that I can actually see the benefits of 4k technology on a 50" or less screen at home.
Verizon to charge for Exchange access on the DROID, probably on the honor system {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 2nd 2009 6:51PM I'm pretty sure this is not unique to Verizon. If I'm not mistaken, AT&T has the same policy for Exchange use, even on the iPhone. I have an iPhone with a standard $30 data plan, and Exchange works fine. I'd guess neither carrier intends to press this on individual users (unless you're dumb enough to bring it up to the agent), but it's there for large corporate customers whom they both know will have to be honest and pony up the extra cash from their deep pockets.
Liquavista's e-reader displays do video, color and other magic tricks (video) {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 3:39PM I'm impressed, and yet I'm not. It certainly is a leap forward for e-ink, but I guess I'm just not sold on e-ink in general. In the end, these demos remind me of passive-matrix laptop LCDs in the early 90's. At the time, we were amazed to have a thin display at all in a laptop that you could carry in your bag. But by today's measures, they were washed out and had strange glitches. Seems like e-ink is a step back to those days, all for the purpose of obtaining very high battery life. I'd rather have a nice, crisp LCD that looks great indoors and outdoors (like the one in my iPhone, but larger), and go for fuel cell technology to take us the next step forward on battery life.
Pilots too busy with laptops to remember flight path, go 150 miles off course {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 2:46PM This "using a laptop" story is a load of crap. These pilots figured they'd cook up a story that the FAA couldn't disprove that would result in a much lesser penalty than the truth, which is that they were both sleeping.
Go visit www.pprune.org. This is a forum where real commercial pilots chat. They all know the realities of being in a cockpit and are pretty certain the truth is far different than what is being reported.
A laptop might distract a pilot for 5 or 10 minutes, but not 75 minutes. You don't completely ignore the instruments and radio for that long, unless you are sleeping or dead.
Dyson DC25 Blueprint impressions: is the 'Ball' worth it? {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 1:53PM What's particularly revealing is that people who DO vacuum as a business (maids, hotel staff, etc.) invariably use regular bag vacuums (very robust, higher end models), not Dysons. They know better. I think we've all been duped by the bagless craze. I'm reminded of this every time I go outside to the trash can to empty my bagless vacuum's trash bin, and find myself standing in the cloud of dust that rises up from the trash can. In the name of saving a few pennies on bags, I've got to deal with emptying these messy bagless bins.
These days, my solution is to use my Roomba 500 as much as possible. If I'm going to spend a lot of money on a vacuum, it's going to do the job FOR me. As long as I run it often and keep it clean, it does a great job. I don't mind cleaning it by hand since I didn't actually have to DO the vacuuming.
RIM's BlackBerry watch pictured, possibly called 'inPulse?' {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2009 2:34PM RIM, no one wants this. Trust me. Watches are so 1980's. Especially really thick, bulky ones.
iriver N20 Mariah Carey edition reveals an unfortunate case of man-hands {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2009 12:09PM No woman's hands are big enough to make MY junk look small, I can tell you that!
Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 bundle has a 250GB HDD, $400 price tag {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2009 11:34PM ...as does pretty much 90% of people who would buy COD MW2. I don't get the whole custom Xbox thing. Just don't. Put something new UNDER the hood, then we'll talk.
AT&T slinging HSPA 7.2 to six cities this year, adding backhaul capacity too {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2009 12:36PM I just visited San Francisco over the 3 day weekend. Looks like the 850 mHz overlay is now on almost everywhere, and the improvement is night and day. I posted more detail on Howardforums.com, but in a nutshell, I got full bars and at least 1000 kbps downloads in Inner Sunset, Marina, SOMA, and Union Square, even two stories underground in a parking garage and deep inside the Macy's building. I never dropped a call. I confirmed 850 mHz frequency in all these locations. Now I don't live there, but I visit periodically (I live 2 hrs away) and this is DEFINITELY a change from before. There could still be plenty of holes and fine-tuning issues, but it looks like AT&T is finally living up to their promises, and they are finally getting close to being ready for MMS on the iPhone.
See more at: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1565091
AT&T slinging HSPA 7.2 to six cities this year, adding backhaul capacity too {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2009 12:29PM It's not "just a software update" if the backhaul isn't there to support it. Enabling 7.2 Mbps without upgrading the backhaul and all the supporting equipment would actually make things worse, because one guy could hog up all the bandwidth on a tower by running a big download or something.
