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If you look at the site they take pictures in all directions and then map them on half a sphere, making it possible to place the virtual camera anywhere around /above he car.
1. take pictures
2. stich them together
3 project them on the sphere, 3d car in the center
4. position camera anywhere within sphere needed
5. render image.

You'll get ugly wherever the spheres surface drops 90 degrees down right infront of you but other then tat it works beautifully. Kind of neat.
Please correct me if i'm wrong butisn't nintendo actually the one benefiting from this investigation? It's sharp and hiatchi who are keeping the prices up for nintendo to pay. And once the prices reflect the real value the ds prduction costs go down.
Quick question for anybody who knows:

Can software without additional input truly determine a random number or does it instead always use a system clock or similar to abstract a simulated random figure?
As mentioned by another poster before, it's (sadly) just an image projected onto a tilted glass surface. No hoovering image, no 3d.

How nice it would be if it was for real..
Lenovo build quality:
on my x61t the screws on the bezel corners are tightened so much the plastic just crumbled apart recently. Checked online and there are quite a few with that problem. How can that be?! Then there's the well known bezel issue (2mm gap between bezel and screen) and a few flimsy parts (the plastic cover on the right of the keyboard and the think vantage button frame on the top) - i've given up on lenovo. I used a 4 year old thinkpad recently at a friends and it's condition and build quality were way better than that of my 4 month old one.
I have to say though, especially in the tablett market the pricing is amazingly competitive and the machines are quite powerful... but the built? In no way.
In the US yes - tough in germany the iphone would be the first to be sold exclsivly. (with the exception of prepaid phones)
As far as i know the razr was never exclusive to one provider in germany.

The phone there is considered a regular electronic device, not locked, fully functional with any network provider and can be obtained either in any regular shop or subsidized through the provider. Subsidized phones are branded (inkl. software) but none the less fully functional independently form your provider. (they only lock prepaid phones given they're more or less free)
@ugg

Thought so... they are utterly tasteless, don't you think? Black jeans with neon pink and yellow patches?! Unheard of before and kindly forgotten ever since!
@TMM

'designer', apple fan boy, seems the same to me!

(And talking about design - how in the world would you want to justify the black boarder around the imac as well as the standard brushed aluminum on the ipod classic, the name ipod classic as well, the new design of the nano and the utterly ugly box of leopard. I thought you were allowed to copy anything but the 80's.. Space?! Purple?!!!)
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm heading to university next year, and I've purchased a MacBook. I'm also taking my four year old desktop, just in case I'm left with no computers when the MacBook is being repaired or whatnot. With only two USB ports on a MacBook, I want a Bluetooth mouse. Budget is about $100, and of course, it needs OS X support. Thanks for the help!"
 

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