Recent Comments:
Video: Little Big Man -- today is a good day to die {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2008 9:12AM Awesome! This plays on our intuitions that even robots need a homunculus!
US troops to receive handheld lie detectors {Engadget}
Apr 9th 2008 3:11PM Any chance we can get our hands on the false positive and false negative rates for these things?
IOGEAR's Mobile Digital Scribe lets you ignore digital pens on the go {Engadget}
Mar 4th 2008 7:45AM I used Microsoft's OneNote in graduate school to write notes using a digitizer/touchscreen and it worked great. The only downside is getting stuff out of their file format. I'm sure I have hundreds of pages of notes in a format that is barely accessible now. It's too bad the software for this has a similar problem.
HP's Blackbird 002 gaming rig up close {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 7:35PM That's hot
Wiimote on your XBox 360 {Hack a Day}
Aug 24th 2007 8:13AM Neuticle,
The "sensor bar" isn't actually a sensor. It simply emits a pair of ir signals at a known (relatively) geometry. To demonstrate this, some people have tried replacing the sensor bar with other sources of ir (e.g., lit candles) and it works!
Bill Gates backs Probo, the huggable children's robot {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2007 10:10AM Melinda Gates: Bill! There's a horrible problem! Millions of children spend months or years in hospitals and, as a result, never develop appropriate social skills!
Bill Gates: Hmm?
Melinda: We should invest in programs to get college or nursing students to go in a hang out with these kids! Think about it! The kids would be able to develop appropriate social skills and the students would gain valuable experiences as mentors!
Bill: I've got it! Let build robots to play with these kids!
Melinda: Uh... What?
Bill: Yeah! Robots! That way, the kids will learn to interact with the robots they will eventually grow up to serve! And, interacting with people? That's what msn is for, noob!
DIY Encrypted NAS {Hack a Day}
Aug 20th 2007 3:46PM 4: That's both awesome and insane. Talk about serious uptime!!!
Spain turns to helicopters to crack down on speeding {Engadget}
Aug 17th 2007 12:52PM Why helicopters?? Wouldn't the fuel, maintenance, and pilot costs (not to mention the costs of the helicopters) be exponentially more than the costs of those remote cameras? What about the over time for monitoring at night and during holidays??
Not that I'm in favor of automatic speed monitoring, or even enforcement of speed limits. If they really wanted people to drive the speed limit, they would use those remote monitoring systems to send people money (tax refunds, etc...) for actually driving the speed limit, as opposed to making people occasionally (or, rarely) pay a fine for speeding. You could make driving the speed limit analogous to playing the lottery. Once a week or something, someone would win some money. I bet it would cost less than enforcement and damages/injuries as a result of speeding accidents.
Alternatively, they could design speed bumps to make it difficult/uncomfortable to drive over 80mph or something.
The Mix Tape USB Drive remembers your roots {Engadget}
Aug 17th 2007 10:59AM Even cooler, someone needs to make one of these that would actually play in a cassette player! Imagine having 4 gigs worth of songs on a friggin tape!!!
