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Microsoft Research thinks telescopic pixels will rival LCDs

Jul 23rd 2008 1:07PM on Engadget

I believe you're missing the fact that existing LCDs' pixels let through less of the backlight when they are 'fully on'. These telescopic pixels let through more light, meaning the backlight can be less bright for pixels of the same brightness. I think also they're saying that when fully off, telescopic pixels let through less light than fully off LCD pixels which would promise higher contrast.

Microsoft Research thinks telescopic pixels will rival LCDs

Jul 23rd 2008 12:28PM on Engadget

I think they call them telescopic pixels because each one is a like a tiny Newtonian telescope where the parabolic mirror can be made more or less parabolic to effectively block out the starlight (backlight) from the eyepiece (hole pointing at the viewer).

T-Mobile Germany says sipgate makes jailbreaking too attractive

Jul 17th 2008 1:08PM on Engadget

T-Mobile must be scared that people will be able to:
1) Pay T-Mobile a big chunk of change each month.
2) Use their iPhone without using T-Mobile's network.

T-Mobile are screwed if customers still give them lots of money but don't make any demands on the T-Mobile network.

Wait... Hang on...

MIT researchers develop window-tint solar concentrators

Jul 16th 2008 9:50AM on Engadget

You mean, battery powered cars, charged partly from huge solar farms out in the desert somewhere.

I think cars use roughly 5kw, which is something like 10 square metres-worth of _strong_ sunlight. And that's 100% efficiency.

(NB: all figures virtually made up)

OpenMoko's FreeRunner interface gets peeked, inspected

Jul 9th 2008 1:27PM on Engadget

Your comment about the $400 phone needs larger quotation marks round the word 'free'.

OpenMoko's FreeRunner interface gets peeked, inspected

Jul 9th 2008 12:56PM on Engadget

This is a frickin wacky comment system. Replying to my message that I can only see when I click through the confirmation email...

OpenMoko's FreeRunner interface gets peeked, inspected

Jul 9th 2008 12:43PM on Engadget

Apparently it will have 4 hours talk time and 72 hours 'f***ing about with stuff to try and get it working until you finally go insane' time.

Sharp brings TV to the powerless

Jul 4th 2008 9:02AM on Engadget

Yeah! Because we all spend most of the time using our laptops in bright sunlight and wouldn't mind lugging around an extra slab of photovoltaics.

Condi Rice's custom DS lite: proof that G8 globalization is important

Jul 4th 2008 7:45AM on Engadget

This: http://www.britemb.org.il/Images/News/DavidMilliband.jpg

Sharp brings TV to the powerless

Jul 4th 2008 6:38AM on Engadget

And, excuse the self-reply, but WTF does 'or 1/3, measured annually' mean? The link offers up this gibberish:

power consumption of about 1 / 3 of the annual power consumption of about 1 / 2 achieved.

Uhuh.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"

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