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Panasonic's 65-inch TH-65PV500B plasma TV reviewed {Engadget}
May 29th 2006 11:16PM I would say as long as you can sit 6' to 8' from the screen, the room would be fine. Around 90" would be "optimal" with a 65-inch widescreen plasma (assuming near 180 degreen viewing angle).
Researchers develop OLED illuminated surfaces {Engadget}
May 28th 2006 8:14PM 10 - the light produced by OLED's is about as harmful as the light produced by your LCD monitor. UVA, UVB, and UVC are what contribute to skin cancer. And thats long-term exposure in relatively high amounts.
Hey, did you know you can get cancer from the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in your toast?! :D
MIT students automate dorm room, add "party mode" {Engadget}
May 11th 2006 8:09PM What good is a "party mode" in a dorm room?
Wrightspeed X1: electric now among world's fastest cars {Engadget}
May 7th 2006 7:59PM 15 - "Equivalent price"? The Fetish will run you over half a million dollars delivered. I'm sorry, that's not even in the same universe as the Atom and other performance EV's. The Fetish is also much heavier and has a lower top speed (~105mph), and does 0-60 in 4.6 - 4.8 seconds (reports vary).
Nothing Venturi builds will ever be a major contender with other performance vehicles. They will simply be limited-quantity eccentric collector's items for the super-wealthy.
NEC falls victim to sophisticated "corporate identity theft" {Engadget}
Apr 27th 2006 4:43PM Adolf, you come across as just a bit xenophobic (and ignorant). Kind of like your namesake was.
Seagate's Barracuda 750GB drive reviewed {Engadget}
Apr 27th 2006 10:46AM Sorry Phil, I think HP took that crown with their 9000-series of server. :(
Live from CeBIT: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is here...almost {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2006 7:37AM 10 - I guess now isn't a good time to mention all the other types of waves flying through the air... like the visible light spectrum :)
MacBook: a 13-inch widescreen with MagSafe & iSight? {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2006 6:00PM "17. am I the only one who thinks magnets near harddrives isn't a good idea?"
If you were using a stack of floppy disks as a drive, maybe.
In order to damage a drive or interrupt its operation with a magnetic field, it would have to have to be of a magnitude far beyond anything you'd normally come into contact with. In tests that I took part in (out of boredom), it took a degausser, specially designed for the task of erasing magnetic media, to do anything to the harddrive or the data on it. Thats a field about 11000 Oe in magnitude.
To put that in perspective, thats 11T. Which is about a hundred times more powerful than a iron bar magnet, and about 70 times more than any rare-earth magnet (permanent magnets, that is).
Day 9 of Engadget Mobile's 30 days of cellphone giveaways {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 22nd 2006 2:06AM Maybe I won't drop this one in the toilet :(
Scientists working on method to turn off your walls {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2006 5:47PM #17: You don't build walls out of glass in most small-scale commercial and residential structures because glass is non load-bearing, a poor insulator both thermally and acoustically, and expensive. You can get structural glass, as well as double- and triple-paned insulated windows and soundproof products, but the price becomes astronomical to have custom fabricated "walls". Not to mention mounting it correctly to withstand live loads from wind.
Electrochromatic glass is very expensive, more difficult to install, and does not have a very attractive lifespan for most consumers (the type that goes from opaque to transparent, anyway). Some panels only have a MTBF of a few thousand hours. I have seen it installed and used in bathrooms and in some conference rooms, but beyond that it is simply impractical.
