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Video: Nearest Tube iPhone app augments reality with directions {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 7th 2009 11:14PM I live in London, so I know the problems with this app firsthand (although, I'm sure many worldwide city-dwellers do as well). The main issue is that it requires you to hold your iPhone out in front of you for extended periods while lost. The one time I used my iPhone, even clandestinely, to navigate in London, it attracted the wrong kind of attention, and I was mugged. Imagine throngs of tourists/lost people holding their iPhones right in front of their faces while walking around strange neighbourhoods. What's more, this app only shows you where the station is as the crow flies. London is a rabbit warren of alleyways and cul-de-sacs. Knowing that the station is "over there" is incredibly useless unless you know which streets to take. All that said, though, the technology behind this app is very cool. I just wish that it debuted in a... more thought out format.
Engadget turns 5! {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2009 12:04PM Baron was actually commenting on the first post nearly two years after it was put up. Parens mine:
Baron @ Jan 9th 2006 2:13PM
I have yet to see one of these [T-Flash cards] "in the wild," as it stands, SD is really the smallest card I've seen in use...
Those poor bastards of three years ago! Myself? I haven't seen a full size SD card in a long while...
Also, I love that the first Micro SD (T-Flash) cards came in "32MB, 64MB, and 128MB varieties." Nowadays 1GB is pretty standard, and they go up to 16GB!
Happy birthday, guys! We've been through a lot together in these past five years. I can't wait to see what the next five years (let alone the next five months) bring...
Kitchen-safe Demy recipe reader could revolutionize your cooking {Engadget}
Mar 30th 2009 10:07AM I just use my iPhone. Safari pointed to cooksillustrated.com*, the Units app standing by for conversion, the Clock app's timer... er... timing, and the iPod entertaining me while my stuff bakes (or, better still, the Remote app controlling my iTunes music library which is being piped to my Airport Express, connected to the speakers atop my fridge). Is it "kitchen-safe"? Well, I can always pop it in my pocket when the going gets rough. All that for the price of this thing.
*The best/geekiest recipe site on the face of the earth. Seriously.
iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste, Pre-like features -- but no background apps {Engadget}
Mar 15th 2009 6:44PM Perhaps, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Apple's redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you (updated with video!) {Engadget}
Mar 11th 2009 9:05AM I think the assumption is that if you're only willing to pay $80 for a PAP, you probably won't be forking out for 3rd party earbuds. I feel like I have to say this every time, but this isn't meant for people like us; i.e. people who chuck the pack-ins the second they get the device. Most people are satisfied with Apple's earbuds, and so they should be: they're some of the best pack-in earbuds out there, and sound really great for their price.
Compact Disc turns 30, MP3 doesn't bother to send a gift {Engadget}
Mar 9th 2009 9:44AM I'll never forgive CDs for killing off wax cylinders. Luckily, some of my favourite artists are still releasing onto the format: Relevant Elephant, Rayon Mammoth, Bunker Sorbet... The fidelity of that lo-fi, crappy analogue sound is just amazing!
Is the iPhone hotter than we think? {Engadget}
Mar 4th 2009 10:07AM Why does this sort of stuff always happen to bloggers? It's like people with an in-built audience and a modicum of tech-savvy are prone have terrible, random defects with their computers.
Huawei's Android touchphone is a mystery wrapped in an enigma {Engadget}
Feb 16th 2009 7:42PM "He sure is ugly, though."
Nine-year old girl is youngest person to become Microsoft Certified Professional {Engadget}
Dec 23rd 2008 10:48PM Woah, AJP! That's a blast from the past! (the past being two-odd years ago).
AJP Abdul Kalam actually visited the town where my boarding school was located (Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu), but he came when our school was /out of session/! He visited the other school in the town, instead. We had the worst luck when it came to VIPs: the Dalai Lama offered to come to our 100th anniversary celebrations, but some dolts in the administration refused to change the date of the celebrations to fit his schedule...
Oilman T. Boone Pickens drops $2 billion on wind power {Engadget}
May 20th 2008 1:08PM Aha, well, good thing you got the Doctor Strangelove reference, too. Maybe Slim was his grandfather.
