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Cowon's 5-inch P5 touchscreen media player brings the haptic happy sauce {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 11:04AM The "luxury hairline metal" makes me wonder if Dokken is the only kind of music file it will support.
Evidence mounts for August Eee PC carnage with $299 Dell E launch {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 12:10PM Well, I regularly pull my Eeepc from my clearance-rack Jansport with Smokey the Bear patch.
It had nothing to do with image for me. Instead, it was about looking like less of a target during my 2 mile walks home through West Philadelphia at night after my graduate classes let out. Not having to worry about finding a bag that would accommodate a full-size laptop and not scream "hey, I'm carrying a laptop!" (or being weighed down by said device) seemed like a pretty good idea. I have a computer at home, and there are computer labs at school to cover needs outside the basic range of functions (word processing, pdf reading, etc.)
Plus it actually fits on a tiny college classroom desk, and removes the chance of grabbing the wrong notebook on the way out the door.
For the right person, they're actually very practical little devices.
Philippe Starck shows off "Democratic Ecology" wind turbine {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2008 11:09PM Those who laugh, wait 'till this becomes our generation's version of the rooftop satellite antenna.
"Hey, we lost the signal!"
"Yeah, it was a pretty still day....where are you going?"
"I'm just going to go spin the turbine for a few minutes."
"Well, please don't fall off the roof...."
Local public school students get assigned Zunes {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2008 11:00PM Actually this is a pretty common thing with my classes (granted, my schooling is graduate level coursework in a major university); there are video recorders placed in most of the classrooms in my building which allow students to review a video or audio version of the lecture. It's really helpful for days when you can't be in a class, or when you want to review for a final exam.
I could also see tech-friendly and highly dedicated instructors using it as a supplementary option to the basic curriculum material. A recorded exam review saves paper and can be played back while the student is doing something else. Or, they could do brief discussions on related topics not able to be worked into an extremely tight lesson schedule.
Three WD VelociRaptors get setup in RAID 5 array, testing ensues {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2008 8:08PM Sir?!
Three WD VelociRaptors get setup in RAID 5 array, testing ensues {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2008 1:41PM "Across the entire volume, performance was generally linear save for a few small valleys along the way, burst speed was 598MB/sec and average read speed was 209.4MB/sec, which pretty much blew the doors off of everything that came before it."
The raptors have found a new way to open doors? Better warn Dr. Grant...
Apple's iPhone 3G to go on sale at 8:00AM on July 11th? {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 9:23PM The only thing anyone should be camping out with intent to purchase next month is tickets to see The Dark Knight.
Can we all agree that it's going to be an insane movie?
Comcast Center's video wall packs 10 million pixels into 27 x 87-foot display {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 9:34AM I wonder why they went to the trouble of using a random actor and removing the Phillies logo from the jersey if they were going to just use a Phillies batting helmet anyway...
Medtronic Diabetes concept car monitors glucose levels in-dash {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2008 10:40AM You must have a very interesting job if you do all those things regularly... : )
Ballmer sees the end of print media in ten years {Engadget}
Jun 6th 2008 1:00PM Haven't we been over this bridge before? People also thought that microfilm was going to replace library books. And you can say whatever you want, but I know I'm not the only person who will never be able to stomach the thought of staring at 350 pages worth of screen. When I read a book, I'll easily do a hundred pages at one go; I'd also never want to bring an e-book reader onto the beach. (To be honest, though, I think the best use for that piece of electronics, and only time I'd see myself wanting an e-book reader would be one onto which I could download my college textbooks).
Also, it may be slightly off-topic, but as someone who works in the information storage sector, my opinion is that if we do leave paper formatting completely behind, it's going to be decades from now. Records retention of information in an electronic format is an absolute nightmare, and only continues to get worse as the deluge continues, and as storage methods are discovered and made standard-- until a new standard emerges two years later. Many storage technologies popular just five years ago are already obsolete or getting there, and they are barely tested to the "test of time." There's nothing worse than finding out the information you need to find for a researcher was only backed up onto floppy disks, or a CD-rom that has now become unreadable.
