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Lotus' Safe and Sound technology gives hybrids a voice {Engadget}
Aug 7th 2008 6:33AM Seems kinda pointless how much noise it makes in the name of "Pedestrian safety".
I still get people walk out in the road all the time regardless of having a VERY loud can on my Buell, they still don't hear it. Its usually cyclists with their ipods on and earbuds rammed into their heads, they can't hear anything at all and think they don't need to check before jumping off the kerb into the traffic.
Power Pack 1 and HP's add-ons make Windows Home Server a real grouch {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2008 5:49AM Now, while I understand what you are saying Alex, you have also shown the exact reasons why HOME Server is better than Linux for a HOME user - while I know Linux can do these things its hardly a case of popping to the shop, plugging it in the network and power - job done. That is the WHS experience for the target audience, its sold as a "white goods" solution IMO hence the hardware tie-in when it was initially released.
Linux solution (while it is free, its a lot of hours work to get it right) = find distribution that does everything you want out the box, find the distribution that NEARLY does what you want, download ISO, wonder how you install it for a while, buy hardware to install it on, burn the ISO, connect monitor/keyboard/mouse to install it, read countless geeky posts about how to set up processes to serve the UPNP streams to your Media centre extender (Xbox 360 etc), XBMC, configure folder duplication across disks, configure the remote access to the server from the internet, write special bit of script (or a canned one) for automated backup from the Windows clients to the Linux server...
You understand what I mean? Its not a plug and play solution or even approaching one.
I buy a WHS machine it does the above out the box, with very little configuration to be done.
The target audience for the WHS product is by and large not massively techy IMO.
BT plans 100Mbps UK broadband service by 2012, Gigabit speeds possible {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 5:57AM I dont see the point at all, all they will do is push out their "headline" 100mbps as a marketing/shareholder gimmick then proceed to hide everything about "throttling" this and "dont actually use it" that in the AUP as Virgin are doing right now.
"We got the UKs fastest broadband network, but don't you dare use it!"
They are completely out of touch with peoples needs for faster broadband and effectively killing the VOD market before it even gets going. How many HD films via something like Apple TV does 10gig a month get you? Cool you can get your film and a bit quick but then you cannot surf the rest of the month...awesome :rolleyes:
Is T-Mobile's 3G service rolling out nationwide in October? {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2008 10:14AM Pfft, dont sweat it. The reception in the UK is great only if you live inside a major city centre. Merely a few miles outside of that and you are lucky to get a signal at all let alone one worth using.
Dyson looking to motor into the electric car arena? {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 1:13PM People rate Dysons so highly because they came from probably the cheapest of cheap Hoovers or the catalogue store own brand.
If you had used say an old Kirby or a Orec then the Dyson was less impressive, especially at the price point of 4x what most people where spending on average.
They simply grew the image of the vacuum from being a plastic thing in the cupboard under the stairs to a "iconic" design that every housewife must have so that she can tell everyone how she has one.
And a little flame bait :)
Anything by Apple can be put in the same bracket, its not that they are the best items, they are the ones you have to have.
Dell dropping XPS, focusing on Alienware -- Dell says no {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 6:46AM Hope they keep the XPS line of laptops, I am sorry but the Alienware logo reminds me of oh so many early 90's raves, aliens everywhere LOL.
Was hoping to pickup a M1330 to replace my M1210. If you are buying a laptop why does performance have to come with a big screen and heavy weight like Alienware seems to think it should?
Digital Cube's i-station UDIC gets hands-on treatment {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2008 1:48PM I was thinking ZX81 as soon as I seen the picture
Master Lock unveils smartTouch garage door opener {Engadget}
Dec 26th 2007 2:34PM Don't trust these things at all and would never entrust them on their own as "security", maybe as part of a whole package of security checks.
When at a range in Florida in January they had a finger scanner on one of the gun safes, a Biovault IIRC. Thing just flipped open when I ran my finger over it.
At first I assumed it was a demo model and just opened at random, the range owner was less happy as it was keyed to his finger print only and was a normal "NRA approved" gun safe.
Texting, talking at the wheel could land Brits in jail {Engadget}
Dec 21st 2007 11:26AM Dont see what difference it will make at all. There's no police to enforce it. Until they invent a camera to do this work for them people will continue to drive like idiots with phones to their ears.
Sangean intros WFR-20 tabletop WiFi radio {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2007 10:16AM Why not?
I quite happily navigate that exact same list on my Reciva based Logik WIFI radio.
Its no different than the way in which an Ipod works navigation wise, you pick the genre by scrolling through a list, click the select option (by pressing in the same scroll wheel), you get a list of stations playing that type of music.
Hardly difficult at all even with 3 line display, unless you are some sort of retard
