I have an Asus M50SA with better specs and it's been out for 6 months now. Where is the news?
And yes it has bluray.

It's not as simple as just "slapping" on a rectifier as many of you seem to be suggesting. Just like Matt said, semiconductors do not respond well to high frequencies. All sorts of weird things happen: the wires act as inductors and anything with resistance acts as a capacitor and you end up with almost all your energy lost if you try to put semiconductors between the source and the output.

A diode breaks down when submitted to that kind of load: we're talking about an electron rushing back and forwards through it 10 billion times in a second. And it has to decide, in 5 billionths of a second wether or not to let it through.

A great discovery, but it'll need another one in semiconductors to come to fruition.
I think the smartass comments are in part due to engadget blatantly aiming this post at them, in order to get more hits. Flippantly suggesting that they understand fully what these scientists/engineers are doing.

Over the years i've gotten more and more disgusted by the way engadget just writes for ads.
Try reading damninteresting.com . no ads, really good pieces of technology writing.

it's kinetic energy. there's no such thing as "kinetic motion". generating power from motion motion huh? cool!

also, the *gasp* faraday principle is used in every non renewable power plant on earth.

also, airpolgas, most hybrid cars do convert kinetic energy back into battery power when the car's brakes are used.

rabatjoe: energy in = energy out. you would need to supply a monumental amount of energy to move a coil around the earth to generate electricity, or even to hold it still while the earth rotates. and then the earth would stop spinning once it's own rotational kinetic energy had been converted to power.

Guys,
I have unlocked my iphone and unless i'm tripping on some crazy nerdy drug, the iphone already has a carrier menu.
I'm in france now, and i can choose from BouygesTel, SFR or Orange with a breeze, and before in the UK i was switching between 02 and some others easily. It's in the Phone preferences, and appeared when I unlocked.
My sim is an australian Telstra sim and am running the 1.0.2 firmware.

You guys should have checked.

I didn't take the time to read through the previous posts, but I can confirm that this worked without a hitch for me (the iUnlock procedure). Just google for a tutorial and you'll find one.

I'm now using Telstra Mobile in Australia. the EDGE works just fine, and Youtube works too after hacking it a little (google, again).

There is one sucky thing though, and it's probably coz the iphone isn't really meant to be working much outside the US.

When someone on a mobile in Aus calls, it doesn't pick up the +61 code, then the 4, then the number for the mobile. It just uses the common 04xxxxx (x's are rest of number). However, having added the +614 into all my address book contacts for when i'm overseas, the iphone now doesn't figure out that +614xxxx is the same as 04xxxx and so caller id doesn't work properly.

Even more annoyingly, it works just fine for SMS.

Does anyone know if theres a haxie for this apart from manually adding 04xxxx numbers to all my contacts?
I suppose this is a problem everyone who has an iPhone outside the us will encounter. It will probably be addressed by Apple in a firmware update as they ready for Europe's launch. But i'm scared that since i have the US version of the iphone, that this firmware will not be available for mine.

Perhaps TUAW could look into it?

Thanks guys.

/* frogbat - think it's time apple throws in a maximise mode. This would make it less shocking for windowa switchers and lets admit it - it can be useful. Why should i stretch a window manually to fill up all my available space (especially on a laptop). I can understand the arguments against it but i'd rather have the option rather than have it denied just cos it was too pc like. */

On OSX if you Option-Click the + bubble for the window, it will enlarge it to the optimum size. It does not automatically maximize, but what it does do is check what's inside the window, and then optimize it's size based on how big your screen is.
Which is really what you want most of the time when you click maximize on XP.
Try it with iTunes reduced to a smallish size, then option click.