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Dyson looking to motor into the electric car arena? {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 10:19AM I seem to remember another celebrated British inventor who decided to get into electric vehicles. It didn't end well....
AMD offers up ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition {Engadget}
Jun 16th 2008 9:52AM "theres more games for mac"
I'd assumed, due to this comment, that the post was supposed to be ironic. Now I'm not so sure.
Gas-powered lawn mower gone solar via 3-step mod {Engadget}
May 30th 2008 9:08AM You should be able to pick up a corded electric mower for
Gas-powered lawn mower gone solar via 3-step mod {Engadget}
May 30th 2008 9:06AM My experience has been that cordless mowers are useless. The change isn't enough to get even a quarter of my lawn done. I use a corded B&D and it seems to work just fine. It's still a little tough to get into the furthest reaches of my lawn though.
Displaced by XP, Sugar Labs goes it alone {Engadget}
May 16th 2008 11:18AM Wow, did you work that out all by yourself?
Sharp reveals world's most densely powerful methanol fuel cell -- still can't buy it {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 10:56AM @Mike: And causes blindness.
Nasty, nasty stuff.
NVIDIA to simplify product range as it courts consumers {Engadget}
May 8th 2008 8:39AM It has to be counter productive to nVidia, ATI and even Intel and AMD to make these things so confusing. The worst case for a user would be to buy a new card only to find it's actually weaker than the one you had. The best way to avoid this situation is to not upgrade until you card is at least 2-3 years old. By then, you can probably buy just about anything and it'll be better than what you had.
NVIDIA to simplify product range as it courts consumers {Engadget}
May 8th 2008 8:35AM What about the 8800 GTS 512Mb? That's the one I brought recently to upgrade my computer and I still have no idea whether I made a good decision or not.
The card is f**cking enormous thought.
NTT floats a "Mobile Fragrance Communications" biscuit {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 12:52PM @nikola:
Why do I say this? Did you read my fucking post? I thought I explained the reason quite clearly.
I've seen several attempts at this kind of thing crash and burn already. Why do they fail? Because it's a stupid idea to try and pitch this to a home market. The amount of consumables needed for such a device mean it will never be practical.
And that's not even getting into the complexity of people's perceptions of smell and trying to recreate that in any kind of consistent way.
NTT floats a "Mobile Fragrance Communications" biscuit {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 8:42AM Here's why it won't work:
Aroma chemicals are, generally, very volatile, that's how you smell them. This means a device like this will need to have the chemicals replaced very often. You think changing the ink cartridge in your printer is a pain? That's nothing compared to this.
And since there is no such thing as a "primary smell" (unlike primary colors) to get anything resembling a full pallet of aromas you would need not four (like your printer) but potentially hundreds of separate cartridges half of which you might need to change every day if you want any kind of consistency.
So how much are you willing to spend just to have an aroma enabled internet?
