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Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch! {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2007 4:53PM I'm going to be replacing my rare handmade E-Ink watch with this...oh, wait...
Engadget Mobile relaunch giveaways - Nokia N75 {Engadget Mobile}
May 25th 2007 1:21PM Oooo, perty!
Pictures emerge of Sprint's Motorola Q {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 29th 2006 4:00PM @Cory
Sorry, but I'd rather pay a bit more for the phone up front than pay out the nose for data plans in the long run (if you use that stuff, which I do quite often). Sprint's unlimited data is actually quite cheap out of the box ($15).
A Treo 750w on Sprint: is CompUSA confused? {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 30th 2006 6:26PM @Barry
Uh, we already knew that the 680 and 750 were getting released on Cingular. This article is regarding the 750 getting released on SPRINT.
I could only hope that Palm had a CDMA version in the works. Altho, the first time I pulled up the UK Palm site on the 750, it showed it supported CDMA in the comparison chart, did anyone else see that? Probably a mistake but I should have taken a screen cap...
A Treo 750w on Sprint: is CompUSA confused? {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 29th 2006 8:01PM That would be sooooo cool. That could also mean the 680 would follow. I'm betting on CompUSA being confused tho'...but here's to keeping up the hope!!!
Nokia E62 (finally) hits Cingular {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 12th 2006 7:43PM Hawk, please read my post closer, talking about the data plans there. $40 vs $15 a month. Sprint doesn't have a comparable phone to the E62 (maybe the BB 7130e?) unless they get the Motorola Q. If you're thinking of the Treo 700's, Sprint's not far off from Verizon's price.
Nokia E62 (finally) hits Cingular {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 12th 2006 4:29PM OK, now I see why people are willing to pay extra for the E61 with wifi...Cingular's data plan is highway robbery! A few months without the data plan and the phone pays for itself. I guess that's the one good thing about Sprint, cheap data...
Cingular gives Nokia E62 a price {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 12th 2006 11:08AM "Why even wait for a stripped version when you can just get an E61??"
Uh, how about because the E61 costs 2 1/2 times more than the E62? For you non-math majors, that's a BIG difference. Some of us actually work for our money.
HAL robot suit almost summits with quadriplegic man in tow {Engadget}
Aug 9th 2006 1:00AM That's damn cool. I'm amazed that it could survive that harsh of an environment. Military implications are high on this one. HAL? CyberDyne? Damn, they got some high aspirations.
Wxrman, if you bothered to actually follow the link, the caption on that very picture sez...
"Japanese mountain climber Takeshi Matsumoto carries on unidentified climber to demonstrate how the hybrid assistive limb (HAL) robot works Sunday."
...so that's not the quadriplegic...
Tesla's electric roadster is lean, mean and very green {Engadget}
Jul 20th 2006 1:18PM First off, I think this thing is awesome. Now that's out of the way...here are my 2 cents…
Only about 30% of the US energy is produced using "renewable" resources. The rest is some form of fossil fuel (www.epa.gov). More electric cars means more fossil fuels burned to keep up with the increased energy demand. Don't like that? Write to your congressman, maybe they’ll speed up the renewable energy process…but I doubt it.
I can't imagine that using solar panels would be a very efficient way to recharge this thing. A solar panel generates about 45mW/sq. inch (maybe a little more nowadayz). Knowing that, to recharge that car with solar panels in a timely manner would probably require an ENORMOUS panel array, those batteries are probably pretty heavy in the amp/hour department.
No matter how it's produce, energy ain't free (yes, solar still costs money, it takes a loonnngg time to recoup the initial cost and the panels don’t last forever); so a good chunk of what you save in gas will probably be eaten up monthly in your electric bill. 1 cent a day? I’d like to see what kind of driving they were doing to get that…cuz I'm betting you wouldn't see that type of efficency driving that thing the way it's supposed to be driven (hard and fast).
I think a more important point is that people seem to miss is that batteries have a finite lifespan. After that...guess what...you have to replace them and dispose of the old set. Last time I checked, the materials in a battery (no matter what type) is pretty darn toxic. Start populating the country with large numbers of battery powered cars and you wind up with a whole new environmental problem. Recycle the batteries, you say? That takes a lot of energy to do...now where does 70% of the US energy come from again?
Incidentally, the stock Lotus Elise uses a Toyota Celica engine and has an EPA rating of 24/29 mpg and has a 10.5 gallon tank, giving it a range of over 300 miles. I’m not sure but it may even qualify as a LEV.
Again, I'm not harshing on this car or trying to say that fossil fuels is the only way to go (personally, I'm more in the bio-diesel camp). I think coming up with stuff like this will solve our problems...eventually. I'm just trying to spin a different point of view...
