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Verizon ups its FiOS speeds to 50Mbps, sets the internet on fire {Engadget}
Nov 21st 2007 9:05AM Well this would be nice, if I didn't live in dead zone where the big V is trying to unload all its service so it doesn't have to provide internet to the rural areas. I've moving soon to a house with dial-up as the only option. Believe me the first the I do when I walk in the door will be to figure out how the heck I can convince someone (or anyone) to get service to my door. Internet in the US is miserable, overpriced and under serviced. Thankfully small companies up here in VT are trying to step in and change things. Burlington Telco gave the V a big up yours and started running FiOS to all the homes in the city. They have had some growing pains, but they brought Fiber to the market long before V. Maybe some day I'll have 10mbs at my desk, at the moment I just need to figure out how to avoid the 56k line.
Hasselblad rolls out 39 megapixel H3D II DSLR {Engadget}
Sep 19th 2007 8:54AM Damn. Thats just plain old beautiful. I am still more than satisfied with H101 DB though, for the work that I do. Maybe when I get really famous (yeah right) I'll be able to say I could even remotely justify this guy. At the same time the gear that I have more than satisfies my need. Just remember its not all dollars and megapixels, as someone rightly said the dynamic range and sensor size are part of the equation. I can print billboard sized prints from my *ist DS2 (6mp), what I cannot do is print 11x14 for a gallery with out some Photoshop help.
Finally, in my own opinion, megapixels don't matter (I know I'll get shot for saying that) as sensor density goes up (hence more pixels) you sacrifice other factors (noise, dynamic range etc.) I'd rather see a lower megapixel'd 35mm SLR with great attention paid to HDR and noise. Heck while I'm at it I'd love an easily removable hotmirror filter for IR photography too :).
I guess we can all dream a bit
iPhone APB: Walt already has one {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2007 12:41PM Jeez if that was to scale, the Mossman must have hands like hubcaps... why didn't some one getting him playing basket ball, he'd be great on D.
Camera Shutter Life Expectancy Database: feel free to chime in {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2007 11:54AM Hmm... seems rather arbitrary. No way to verify that the number of shutter actuations are indeed what is on the body. Someone posted their *ist DS had taken 8 million clicks... thats taking a picture every 10 seconds for 971 days, non-stop. Ok so the DS came out in 04, assuming Peter got the first model off the line (a pre-production model from the announce date of Sept. 2006) he would have finished his 8 millionth actuation in March of this year. Wow, I wish I could do that, course I'd never have time to process even a fraction of my 8million pictures, but hey, thats me.
How do I verify this information? How do I separate the defective models that may have had a bad shutter (or an inexperienced user) from the cameras that just died?
Good premise, weak implementation.
And I can't even begin to think about some of the comments about the shutter above, makes my head hurt.
Nikon D3 DSLR rumors running rampant {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2007 8:11AM Damn the megapixels to hell and back... I don't care if the D3 has 10mp, as long as the IQ is excellent. In fact I think a 12MP camera, FF, with good photosite density to improve IQ and noise would be far more useful than a 17MP overly dense, noisy camera. But hey, what do I know, I am just a photographer.
BlueQ's unsightly Vibrating Bluetooth Wristband {Engadget}
May 18th 2007 12:12PM So you can post a link to your web page of course.
Navy seeks to develop (another) incapacitating stun weapon {Engadget}
Mar 7th 2007 8:14AM Heh, sounds like someone at the DOD watched too much Minority Report over the weekend. 'Sick Sticks' anyone?
Digital Foci's Photo Safe compact storage for photogs {Engadget}
Mar 6th 2007 12:39PM Damn and that price ain't bad either... this would come in real handy, 90% of the time I don't need to see the pictures, just clear the card.
Engadget's 3rd Birthday Giveaway - Day 1 {Engadget}
Mar 1st 2007 1:18PM 2004-
http://www.engadget.com/2004/08/17/appetite-for-destruction-weblowitup-com/
My first read, hmmm a site about blowing up technology, lets see what else is kicking around... anyway it provides great stress relief, just order something from here:
www.imsplus.com/ims41b.html and go raid the recycle closet for a nice P133, or PII 450.
2005-
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/15/clocky-hides-when-you-hit-snooze/
Its Clocky, you just can't get any better than that. I wanted one when the post first hit Engadget, and now I hear she's actually selling these guys:
www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html
But sadly with out the carpet covering. Still one of my favorite Engadget posts of all time, and yes someday I will take my nice shiny new credit card over to her site and buy one. I can feel my willpower slipping away.
2006-
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/11/keepin-it-real-wtf/
I have always enjoyed keeping it real fake, each installment is a good insight to the stuff that goes to market in Asia that we'll never, ever see over here in the Land of Bush. Anyway this one just made me laugh out loud and has since been re-created using a virgin-sacrificed USB cable and an old 128mb PNY stick. "You need a USB Stick?"... "Here borrow mine..."
Silica hack "tester" perhaps too good at its job {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2007 11:52AM Ooooo toys!!!
I mean.. umm... we have a wifi network here at work... and ummm I'm the security officer.
Yeah thats it, im the security officer here and I need one to ummm.. test security.
Its a neat idea, especially for penetration testing, but I hate to think of what would happen if some of the kids in our Cisco classes got their hands on one. On the other hand it would be interesting to see what this did see on our network.
