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Bang & Olufsen's multifunctional BeoTime gets carefully handled {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 7:56AM Rock Band: Jethro Tull edition!
Yamaha's EC-f electric motorcycle has two wheels and one plug {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 9:01AM Just don't let your friends see you riding one.
Robots from ABB perform amazing feats of coordination, prove better conversationalists than your average Fantana (video) {Engadget}
Oct 20th 2009 8:29AM Why doesn't VH-1 do a show about what ABBA's been up to lately? First taking on the 1970s pop music scene and now building robots? Amazing!
What's that? ABB?
Nevermind.
Z Corporation's ZPrinter 350 will create a 3D object of any color you want, so long as it is white {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 8:49AM Think of the possibilities for the office slut at the Christmas party.
Nokia shows off N900's sweet web browsing skills on video {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2009 9:04AM "Six minutes may be a long time to look at something you can't touch"
Try waiting on a pre-order. Forget six minutes. Six weeks at least!
QNAP debuts 'low cost' TS-410 Turbo NAS for home use {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2009 9:13PM This weekend I spent a few hours building a new NAS using the Via Artigo A2000 and freenas. It only has 2 drive bays, but what a deal. $225 open box from Fry's. The best part is that it has a CF slot on the motherboard, so the OS can be independent of the data. According to the Kill-a-Watt, it, along with my my router and UPS draw 45 Watts at idle and about 65 during read/write cycles. Transfer speeds are fairly good, seeing about 200-230Mbps between my laptop and the NAS, but I think the laptop was struggling to keep up, not the NAS.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/a2000/index.jsp
http://www.freenas.org
So the QNAP has RAID 5, but less RAM (I installed 1GB, it will support 2). Seems a little expensive to me. Most of the time I spent was setting up the RAID, services and shares, something that would have to be done with this box as well, so I don't think there's really much time that would be saved. I guess hot swapping might be an advantage, but for a home server I don't think it would be essential. Hardware RAID might get you better throughput, but I had to upgrade the home network to GigE to see any major speed increase over my old Linksys slug anyway.
Still can't understand the price.
Bell Labs uses 155 lasers to beam ridiculous amounts of data over 7,000 kilometers {Engadget}
Oct 1st 2009 11:18AM People in Japan have had that kind of bandwidth for years, on their cellphones.
Livestream Livepack: a 'satellite television truck in a backpack' {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 30th 2009 11:53PM How many minutes 'til you use up the 5GB limit?
"We now go live to Bill Williams at the scene... Bill? Are you there?
Apparently, we've done too many remotes this month."
Nissan's Leaf EV will sound like a Blade Runner spinner, get better mileage {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2009 11:11PM So it's going to pipe Vangelis music to the neighborhood?
N900 hacked to replace the innards of a Speak & Spell, can never bring back your childhood {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2009 10:48PM Bad pie... BAD PIE!
