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$170,000 Japanese-style Roomba takes home the gold {Engadget}
Jan 4th 2007 6:19AM Jacobites will wail when they lose their cleaning jobs but in the end more, cheap automation of menial jobs will increase the quality of life for all.
The 'Exodus effect' will kick in for the initial period
Exodus Effect: (improvement programs worsening conditions at first before vastly improving them 'see- Israelites bitching about the desert being worse than slavery in Egypt as the first example, later 70's UK economic recovery another, Post commie fall Russia being another, automated answering service until we get true artificial agents to deal more specifically with our call needs being yet another example of how the initial stages of improvement (machines over paid human operators) seem to worsen things until they mature a little).
After the Exodus effect period it will be nice to see machines doing simplistic tasks rather than elderly people. I always feel sad and that it's an undignified lifestyle for someone in their sunset years to be on their knees scraping gum off of floors etc.
The machine will come down in price and spread quite quickly i think.
Team Xtender's XFPS reviewed {Engadget}
Jan 1st 2007 9:04AM This site could do with a profile option to change to a more memory friendly password . . er or is there one already that i haven't seen?
Team Xtender's XFPS reviewed {Engadget}
Jan 1st 2007 9:02AM I would love to have a 360. I refuse to play on one though unless i can use a mouse.
Best of both worlds would be the left hand nintendo nunchuck thing for pressure sensitive control for running, strafing, leaning and mouse in my right hand for aming and firing etc.
Opera hits the OLPC XO {Engadget}
Dec 20th 2006 3:29AM How about this idea for the OLPC program:
Many people in the 1st world want one. I'd buy one for more than 150 bucks and i think they are ideal for kids in the 1st world as well as some adults (with small fingers maybe)
Then . . . . how about if they make two colour versions. They sell a black one for example for $300 (double the price) with the promotion that for every one we in the 1 world buy one is given for free to a child in a 3rd world country. That way their governments won't have to pay anything at all for at least some.
I think at least 1 million of us in the 1st world would pay $300 for a black or differently coloured (to avoid charity ones being sold in the 1st world) OLPC so that would be 1 million that go free to a child in a developing country.
What say ye all??????
MIU's M*Free: all in one never looked so bad {Engadget}
Dec 7th 2006 9:58AM Well i carry a credit card. ;)
Check this out. http://www.gp2x.co.uk
It's another Korean gadget. the GP2X is a bit like a psp except you can do anything on it. Upload movies and it automatically re sizes them. MP3S, photos, games whatever you like. It's also a bit ugly but it uses up to a 4 gig SD card and the company just sells it and that's it.
you pay about 180 dollars and you can even emulate just about any games machine in the past so it has thousands of free games essentially.
The device i'm waiting for would look a bit like the Nintendo DS for a nice clamshell protection. Open up and have a psp size screen on the top and a keyboard/game controller interface on the bottom, be like the GP2X: an open system and do just about anything i want.
The only thing stopping this product from happening is that all the differing companies what too bigga slice of the pie so they won't collaborate enough to game a truly convergent device. So what we get is a device that is great at some functions but very poor at others.
Oh well, my credit card will wait till the killer device is revealed.
MIU's M*Free: all in one never looked so bad {Engadget}
Dec 7th 2006 9:01AM I don't quite understand the bit about the cartridge. So is is just a screen and keyboard that needs guts in the shape of the cartridge?
Whatever, it looks a bit of a brick but i have to say there is deffinitly a market for it. For me that screen or a psp sise screen is the minimal that i will allow my self to spend a significant amount of time looking at, for aesthetic as well as comfort and health reasons.
A UMP is too big to carry around casually and a pda is too small a screen to excite me.
I'm willing to pay around $1,000, for a device that size that can do most things.
I think these companys think wifi etc is the new internet. By that i mean it's a buz word and everyone thinks the customers are desperate for it. I for one would never need it. I think the bubble on wifi being a feature in everything will burst at some poing. Also, companies love it cause it allows them to create afte sales services such as downloads that they can charge for. I just wanna upload everything i might need to do via my home pc and not pay some company for stuff i already have on my home computer.
Anyway, as soon as a company brings something like that out, maybe a bit better looking and slimmer, then i'll be ready with my $1,000.
I won't buy a zune or ipod cause i dont want to be beholden to the company that sold it to me for how i use it. I won't buy a psp or ds cause it wont let me do other stuff. And i won't buy a collection of gadgets cause i dont wanna carry a whole load of crap around.
I want one converged, open device about the size of this thing that can play mp3's, games, movies, take photos, make phone calls, be a pda and other things. When it's in a shop window i'll open my wallet and hand over a grand.
AT&T accurately predicts the future, incorrectly picks delivering company {Engadget}
Dec 7th 2006 12:33AM Are you sure they were from 93? I've seen all those ads in the last few years on TV.
I saw a wide screen tv in a show Window in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1992.
