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Superpowerful small wind turbines light up the night {Engadget}
May 13th 2008 5:41PM The shadows in the image is comming from the sun, not the light bulb. Also, there is clearly a electrical wire going down from the turbine, between his arms and down behinds his trousers.
Java-based client spreads Skype far and wide {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 28th 2008 7:22AM By testing it for example. If you try to call a skype contact it will call a regular local phone number.
Designer LEXON Jet clocks do dot-matrix with style {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2008 6:53PM The missing pixels on some of the numbers comes from the fact that it's not really a dot matrix display but a regular 7 segment display with the segments made to look like dot matrix. Just like many cheap car stereos and similar. Either that or the designer actually emulated a 7 segment display for some strange reason, but I doubt that since the "N" has triangular "dots".
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LII: AT&T CEO scoffs at Verizon's "Any Apps, Any Device" plan {Engadget}
Dec 2nd 2007 5:17AM @Paul Reibe
What system are you thinking about here? From what I can find GSM actually preceded CDMA with a few years if you are talking about 2G networks. If you are talking about 1G networks NMT preceded AMPS by two years. 0G networks are a bit scattered over the early timeline but are hard to compare since some of them were very limited in almost all respects.
Ubuntu running on P990i? {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2007 6:21PM The soldering could be for disabling some lock to allow writing to some low level boot loader. Note that the solder points are quite small, so he didn't do that bad of a job, it simply looks really bad through a magnifier glass.
However, I don't see how this could prove anything at all. It's not very hard to create a program that gives you full screen access and can emulate the look and feel of Ubuntu showed in the video...
Ubuntu running on P990i? {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2007 6:20PM The soldering could be for disabling some lock to allow writing to some low level boot loader. Note that the solder points are quite small, so he didn't do that bad of a job, it simply looks really bad through a magnifier glass.
However, I don't see how this could prove anything at all. It's not very hard to create a program that gives you full screen access and can emulate the look and feel of Ubuntu showed in the video...
Envision's G918W1, H1781, and H1981 LCD monitors {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2007 4:10PM "while the widescreen G918W1 (pictured after the jump) ups the resolution to 1,440 x 900"
Actually 1440x900 has close to 15 thousand fewer pixels than 1280x1024.
DIY nailguns wrecking all sorts of havoc on hands {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2007 11:22AM "We'll admit, we certainly didn't realize that home crafted, high-powered staplers were becoming all the rage"
It hasn't, a quote from The Register article:
"This increase likely corresponds to an increase in availability during the 1990s of inexpensive pneumatic nail guns and air compressors in home hardware stores."
Chinese engineers reveal nuclear-powered lunar rover {Engadget}
Apr 3rd 2007 4:17PM "In a rover that can do 100KPH, I sure would want dual power sources. In an hour you are probably out of walking distance before your air runs out if something happens to one power source or another"
1. The article makes no mention of someone sitting on the rover.
2. 100KPH is exactly one thousand times faster than this rover. ;-)
