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PlayStation Eye gets utility boost, hacked to work as webcam {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2008 11:59PM I went out and bought a Eye from Wal-Mart for the $39.96 price tag. I came home and installed his software program. This camera is absolutely AMAZING. I mean quality video beyond any webcam. I currently have a half dozen webcams. All the websites claim the Logitech Notebook Pro/9000 series are the best. The problem is they record in 15 frames per second and the Carl Zeiss lens is horrible. I've tried a plethora of cams. I've tried about every webcam on a notebook. The best are made by Acer at an unfortunately VGA quality, but the image I find to be far superior. I'm a high resolution person myself, but I am willing to downgrade to a lower resolution to get a better image. The problem with this eye cam software is the sheer number of space it requires. A 3 second video is 50MB. Ouch! They do upload to youtube, but you better have tons of hours on your hands to wait for the upload to complete. I'd like to see compression in H.264. But I would donate at least $100 to this guy if he could make this work like a regular webcam such as in firefox, chrome, opera, IE, etc as a recognized webcam without it crashing instantly. The 18MB per second recording is tough, the quality is of the frame rates are out of this world. All these webcams on the market promise up to 30fps yet only record at 15fps. I'm aware of Firefly MV and iFire, but the company that sells them seem to assume you are into advanced design such as robotics or something far above the average mod savvy person. I realize it is his first version and hopeful he can give the public an escape from the stagnant technology of webcams...let's face it the highest rated webcams are years old. What gives?
Geneva '08 Preview: Volkswagen Sharan BlueMotion {Autoblog Green}
Mar 14th 2008 7:23AM Yes, and it is too bad they didn't at the very least bring the T5 version of the Eurovan. Mexico has the T5 diesel version that gets around 33mpg already (I guess they thought I'd be happier with the gas version that gets half the gas mileage). We can't have the diesel VW van in the U.S. And then to get further slapped in the face to find out the 2009 VW van will be built by Dodge based on a Caravan platform. I'd rather take a bullet in the head than even look at the new 2009 VW van. Horrific to even think VW would destroy the bus heritage with a Dodge Caravan. Forget about it.
VW Golf TDI Hybrid: too expensive for America? {Autoblog Green}
Mar 14th 2008 7:14AM Unfortunately, VW did the same thing with the Eurovan T4. They offered the gasoline version, which my van gets on average 15 to 17mpg (it's an EVC) and the diesel version which is available in Mexico (not in the U.S.) get over 30mpg. And they have the new T5 with a manual. I'd pay a $10k premium to have that van, but it's illegal to own a T5 because it hasn't been certified by the EPA/NHTSA. :(
Personally, I'd only not buy the 69mpg diesel hybrid if the air conditioning system wasn't electric. To me that is the only requirement I have for a hybrid that the A/C be not gasoline compressor based, but electric like the Prius/Yukon.
But what did VW do...they cancelled the Microbus and are now allowing Dodge to build a VW bus based on a caravan platform. Disaster! VW is looking for high production sales at the sake of quality. Oh well, I won't buy the new van and my next vehicle won't be a VW until they can get their act together in the U.S.
LA 2007: Chevrolet Silverado Two-Mode Hybrid {Autoblog Green}
Mar 13th 2008 11:37PM How long will the air conditioning stay on with the motor turned off. There are many times that I'd like to take a nap or a long sleep on the road and this would be much safer than rolling down the windows or running the motor to keep it cool.
An hour, two hours, etc?
Will the motor start up automatically if the battery is dieing due to the A/C being left on? Seems almost too good to be true.
NEC busts out four new LaVie laptops -- frumpiness abounds {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2007 7:11PM NEC...the only laptop that you had worth anything was that 15" 2048x1536 resolution screen notebook. Bring it back!!!
Intel's MID UMPCs: So long XP/Vista, hello Linux {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2007 7:02PM haha, Linux...no thanks, I'll take an OQO 02 even if this thing was free.
Toshiba's fancy new Qosmio G40 desktop replacement {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2007 4:13AM Dual-Link? Did Nvidia finally put dual-link in their 8 series laptop cards. While I prefer Nvidia for desktop cards, they completely forgot dual-link DVI for laptop cards. Therefore will this be 1.3a or 1.3b?
Intel rolls out first Core 2 Duo ULV processors {Engadget}
Apr 5th 2007 10:24PM Will an individual be able to purchase just one of these processors? It seems like when I was looking for a ULV processor for a mini-ITX board I wanted to build the only thing the public could buy was LV processors. No? Is this only for manufacturers?
Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport puts omniscient X-ray to use {Engadget}
Feb 27th 2007 1:54PM haha, I bet nudist view it as progress or exhibitionist. ;o)
NVIDIA confirms GeForce 8-series for laptops {Engadget}
Feb 24th 2007 3:58PM Please Nvidia, make them dual-link DVI. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
