Recent Comments:
Xbox 360 HD DVD pre-order costs $99 if you do some funny math {Engadget}
Nov 5th 2006 7:20PM It seems that putting the price of the games at US$40 is just promoting Piracy. They just don't seem to realise that if the price dropped then so would piracy. You'll never get rid of piracy but it would help! Same goes for DVD's & CD's.
The Lockdown: Your new Targus Defcon CL lock, hacked by beer {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2006 12:51AM After working in a department that looked after 3500 laptops, the locks are just a deterant even if they are the best avaliable. We found most notebooks were the weakest part of the link with the theif snapping the case and leaving a small portion of the casing behind with the lock. From the laptops recovered from the theft we noticed that the broken casing where the lock used to be wasn't at all noticable leaving the notebook in a resellable condition.
Until they have a better 'socket' to connect the locks to there's no real point in spending a large amount of cash on a lock like this even if it's the worlds best.
Siemens VDO shows off eCorner motor-in-hub concept {Engadget}
Aug 13th 2006 12:05AM to elaborate on 'mcspacebar's comments, from the drawings it would appear that the wheel hub contains the motor and the tyre is bolted to the outsite of the wheel hub/motor. Not a remarkably different design of type from what we have now just different to hold the motor and brakes. This would make the type just as easy to change and just as light as current cars.
I'd love to see this in cars sooner rather than later. Anything that gets rid of the use of petrol/gas is a great idea.
LiveItNerd.
Sharp launches UX-B800SE Broadband Fax {Engadget}
Aug 3rd 2006 4:26AM This stuff is old tech. I install and service machines that can do both of these. Toshiba, Konica Minolta and Kyocera photocopiers can all scan to e-mail (as PDF and TIFF) and can fax as well as be your printer and copier. While all of them allow you to use the "internet-fax" option to send docs from copier-to-copier, the newer ones will allow you to recieve the faxes to a network location and will even sort based on the TTI.
We even go as far as setting up 1 touch systems that allow you to scan to an e-mail address as .pdf, .doc, .xls and more that's also been ocr'd on the fly!
The only thing I can see here that Sharp is doing that's different is their marketing approach of putting it in to something the size of a normal fax machine.
