Free TUAW iPhone app -- try it now!
AOL Tech

Engadget

FEATURES: Holiday Gift Guide Droid review The Engadget Show Google's Chrome OS HTC HD2 review
Blog Activity
Blog# of Comments
Engadget23 Comments
Engadget HD1 Comment
Engadget Mobile4 Comments
Autoblog Green1 Comment

Recent Comments:

Any scene with the wife in it. Hawt. Even Hotter at 720p or 1080p even!
Try Mologogo.com. Sure you have to pay $10.70/month to Boost for the unlimited data plan, but now you have all of your data on where your car/phone has been. I have my phone set to also send the data to my own server, where I've added a few niceties like only record the waypoint if it is more than 300 feet away from the last one (300 feet is about the true accuracy of the thing), trip-based mapping, etc.

Got me a phone and a prepaid plan for $80. Much cheaper than the $286 above. Plus it came with a cigarette power cord, plugged nicely in the trunk of my car.
I would LOVE to save $600! Woot! I'm such a geek.
I will be listening to blissful silence whilst riding in da plane, da plane. After two minutes of sitting next to the snoring, boring person i was forced to sit between, while giving up any chance of legroom and increasing my chances of RLS, at least I'll be able to ignore that which surrounds me as I blast anything but country directly into the canals of my ear.
I was shocked that PM didn't even mention the ZAP-X. Disappointing.
That was such a horrible and campy video. Andru is a horrible interviewer, the interviewee was given no instruction as to where to look, 'um' was said far too many times... it was painful to watch.

The technology was drool-worthy though.
OK, here's my take -- the ROI on these bulbs is 3 years, if you are OK with the quality of light it gives off.

Compact Fluorescent is fine, but it either has a slow start up time (not instant-on), or the color it gives off is harsh blue-ish/white-ish rather than warm (red-orange-yellow) like incandescent (but instant-on).

LED is fine if they get the lumens up and the light to feel more like incandescent. Not sure this bulb does, but I might buy one to see. Sure, the bulb costs $65, but instead of paying $24/year @ 2000 hours use per year and $0.20/kWh, you pay $3.60/year. $20 savings per year, and you've paid for the bulb in the first 3 years of use. The 47 years it will last after that is simply money saved. I don't think the LED bulbs are there yet in lumens.

Incandescent has a low cost per unit (like $0.50 at Target for a 60W frosted), but at 2000 hours use per year, you spend $24 on electricity at $0.20 kWh.

What I want are LED equivalents of 60w Narrow Flood Halogen lights, same lumen rating and same color warmth. Get creative with lenses like the LED flashlight manufacturers have done (see inova x5), and this should be doable. Get me those and I'll buy a bunch.

Additionally CF have mercury, and even at 8000 hours, you are throwing these out every 4 years into a landfill. At least with LED, it's a circuit board and you should be able to dispose with a computer disposal company to recover some of the valuable metals.
"make a label hate you"

*laugh* Funniest thing I've seen all day. I want one solely to get a label to hate me now. Engadget editors rule.
That's awesome. I gotta start laser etching my gadgets so if they get stolen I can find them again on ebay.
I don't think this card will fit in a macbook pro. Will it?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
 

Boss of the Year Entry Form

Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.