wow that looks incredibly dangerous. wifi is easily knocked out of service. phone accelerometers are not that accurate or responsive. at 1:10 the minivan was pointed right at the operator with about 10 meters of space between them. I wonder what sort of fail-safes they implemented.

what about ad-hoc mode, already part of the 802.11 standard from the beginning?
a number of projects played with multi-hop routing across wifi nodes in ad-hoc mode.
ad-hoc mode is missing discovery so perhaps wifi direct includes some sort of beaconing.

Then again, bluetooth was designed to do all of this from the start. Peer to peer connectivity including routing between peer groups. Also at low power. I think the BT spec was so over designed noone ended up implementing it. The BT hype has been around since 1999 - every electronic device would have BT and would be continually chatting each other up swapping data about refrigerator inventory and cell phone multiplayer gaming.

the story gives a spec for sequential write speed? what does sequential vs. random access have to do with a solid state drive? lol.

the arduino rocks!
how about another relay that _waters the plant_. then twitter me that the plant needed water, but its taken care of now.

best. product description. ever.

open the HD-DVD spec. licence the patents royalty-free and public the player sourcecode. set it free.

Toshiba - Make the HD DVD standard an Open Standard. Now that you've abandoned it, open it up. Put the patents under a no-royalty, free-licence arrangement. Publish the source code that runs the HD-DVD ROM drives.

@Wonderkind: your comments are applicable to any of the new SE phones.

I love the hardware of the new SE phones but give me an Android operating system. The open source ecosystem of software apps that will appear for Android will be amazing.

@xbit

What are you going to do when your windows-based ISP refuses to talk to your Mac?

Thats why open, standard protocols are so important. Thats why I use an unlocked GSM phone. The android phones, like the FIC FreeRunner phone, will be sold unlocked (on the grey market at least), and you can use it with any GSM provider.

there once was a blog named engadget
with giveaways so hot i'd sign up
this does not rhyme.