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Sony introduces limited edition VAIO Nebula FW laptop {Engadget}
Nov 2nd 2009 10:03PM sweet! that will totally match my trapper keeper.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Joby Gorillapod Focus! {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2009 12:37PM ya, i like gorillas.
Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle to be sold at Best Buy {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2009 10:36AM 0-60? their site says 0-30 in 3.8 seconds. that's a little bit less impressive.
$12000 for a 50mph top speed and a 45 mile range at 25mph. this is really sad. even the vectrix beats it out by a little bit. sorry, but it's hard to justify this thing over a 70mpg ninja 250 that can actually go on highways.
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 11:00PM firmware 1.1, kernel 2.6.25-01845-g85d4f0d android-build@apa27 #27
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 10:46PM yup. i have a dev phone 1 with a t-mobile sim and i see paid apps in the market.
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 10:44PM i have a dev phone 1 with a t-mobile sim and i'm seeing paid apps in my market.
Immaculate prosthetic limb concept makes combines fun again {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2009 8:22AM all is full of love!
VUDU permanently cuts retail price of movie set-top-box in half {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2009 9:53PM this market is waiting for the ion. vudu is trying to dump inventory while they still can. proprietary set top boxes are a dying breed.
Senate approves tax break for new car shoppers {Autoblog}
Feb 4th 2009 9:01AM the numbers here are highly questionable. there are two reasons why this sounds better than it is: (1) it's probably not a big enough deduction to make many people switch over from standard to itemized deductions, (2) it'll take quite a large car loan for the yearly interest to add up to over 2% of your income (necessary in order to claim a deduction), and (3) homeowners would still do better by borrowing against their equity (lower rates and tax deductible). a 5 year loan for $10k at 7% works out to about $400 in interest per year. this would go over the 2% cutoff for people who make $20k or less. for someone making $50k, they'd need to take out a $25k loan to hit the cutoff, and that's still only $1000 worth of deduction-- far from enough to beat the standard deduction. no, unless special rules come along with this deduction, i think it's going to completely fail to help the people who could most use help buying a new car (i.e. non-homeowners who aren't buying cars out of their league).
Shelby Super Cars revises incredible claims, still incredible {Autoblog Green}
Jan 26th 2009 1:32AM i say double it because (a) it's not just about inefficiencies in the charger, it's the whole system from charging jack to wheels, and (b) the 37kWh figure i came up with is a *bare minimum* amount of charge to meet the stated specs under conservative driving conditions, whereas this is supposed to be a performance car.
thanks for the insights on high power charging. sounds like that part, at least, can be done. i guess now it's just a question of whether the batteries can do it.
