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Palm Pre Touchstone sold early, for some reason {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 2nd 2009 10:12PM ...the back cover is right there in the pic.
Hulu coming to Roku video player? {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2009 9:53PM With more free porn online than you can shake your stick at nowadays, I wholeheartedly believe any Playboy subscriber who says they buy it for the articles.
You'd have to be a weapons-grade moron, or completely computer illiterate, to be buying it otherwise...
Intel 80GB SSD price cut by one-third, still very expensive {Engadget}
Feb 6th 2009 7:16PM Seeing how space isn't that tight in an SSD, I'd go as far and bring up that a high-speed 16GB SDHC card (not microSD) can currently be bought for $30, or $1.87 per GB.
Of course you have to add a controller, and nobody's going to run a 10-card freaky RAID array of some sort -- but the point is, flash memory is now cheap enough that somebody, somewhere, should be able to offer a decent 80GB SSD for less than $200.
LG Display plans to melt eyes with Trumotion 480Hz LCD TV {Engadget}
Dec 30th 2008 1:18AM Whoops, meant VeganFreak. Heh. Sorry. I have NAB2009 in my mind already.
LG Display plans to melt eyes with Trumotion 480Hz LCD TV {Engadget}
Dec 30th 2008 1:17AM VegasFreak: NTSC analog video is 525i, 30 frames per second, with each frame having 2 fields (thus 60 fields per second). The 'i' stands for interlaced.
Common LCD TVs sold in North America and Japan thus have 60hz so that they can accurately replicate 1080i, which also has 60 interlaced fields per second.
Seems to me the race for Hz should eventually stop at 600 -- which would produce an LCD TV marketable worldwide (capable of PAL 25fps, Film 24fps, and NTSC 30fps)
Windshield GPS mounting legalized again in California {Engadget}
Oct 1st 2008 1:30AM Actually (and it's a little surprising that nobody here mentioned this yet), the common wisdom is that the ban was passed as a go-around way to cut down on radar detector use. It pre-dates GPS by over a decade.
Android-powered HTC Dream to sell for $199 on T-Mobile {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 18th 2008 12:58PM The iPhone 3G's upfront price is made artificially low by the inflated monthly data rate, which AT&T forces you to get.
If this model sells at the same price but has reasonably-priced data (and SMS) offerings -- the $10+ savings per month over two years would really add up.
NY state inserts RFIDs into licenses; citizens next? {Engadget}
Sep 17th 2008 12:17PM Steve --
It most certainly is possible to live across the border from your work -- I knew several people who worked in Plattsburgh, NY with homes just across the border in Canada, most of them nurses at the town's major hospital (but also college professors and even some retail workers).
Your way, though (live in US, work in Canada), is somewhat less common, since it ends up kind of being the worst of both worlds -- you pay hefty Canadian taxes on your wages without getting the "free" healthcare you should get with them, forcing you to pay for coverage on your own stateside. Canadian healthcare is a benefit of residency, not citizenship or employment.
Obviously, while this driver's license facilitates the border-crossing bit, you still need the necessary right-to-work papers to pull this off (visa, permit or citizenship)
TSN2 HD arrives on Canada's Bell TV {Engadget HD}
Sep 17th 2008 12:10PM ...if only Bell's new satellite would finally launch with all its glorious new bandwidth... so that all their HD channels don't look like such hyper-compressed crapola!
Cellphone charger blamed for blaze in Delaware {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 3rd 2008 6:26PM You unplug your DVR, too? (What's the point of it then?)
And your cable modem, network router, cordless phone base stations, washing machine? What about your dishwasher... isn't that kind of a pain in the ass to unplug? Do you throw away your perishable food every night after going the entire day without refrigeration?
