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Black Friday Giveaways (part 10): the LG Prada phone {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2008 2:12PM me!
Black Friday Giveaways (part 9): Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2008 12:00AM Me!!!!!
Black Friday Giveaways (part 2): 2GB Eye-Fi Explore card {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2008 1:06PM Me, Me!!
Chinese-made solar-powered car gets 150 kilometers on a 30-hour charge {Engadget}
Oct 17th 2008 2:42PM No, the reason we can't have something like this in this country is because it doesn't exist.
Saying it exists doesn't make it so.
Chinese-made solar-powered car gets 150 kilometers on a 30-hour charge {Engadget}
Oct 17th 2008 2:40PM So Serge,
You're saying that you can drive this car at 9.3 mph on the power of one average lightbulb?
Show me the car that can do this.
This isn't that car.
Chinese-made solar-powered car gets 150 kilometers on a 30-hour charge {Engadget}
Oct 17th 2008 2:34PM I call B.S. on this one.
IF you angle the panel to the sun.
IF you have an absolutely clear day.
Then, you'll get that conversion efficiency.
Let's call it 15.5%, the mean of the stated efficiency.
Can't tell for sure from the photo, but let's be generous and call it an 8 by 10 foot solar panel.
That's 80 square feet X 100 watts per sq. ft. (really clear "Air Mass 1" solar input) X 0.155 (efficiency fraction) = 124 watts output.
IF you have 8 hours of Air Mass 1 sunlight (very rare, actually), you'll get 8 X 124 Watts X 0.001 Watts/Kilowatt = 0.99 KwH (Kilo Watt Hours).
0.99 KwH per day is simply NOT ENOUGH to drive a car 40km (150 / 30 hours X 8 hours).
No way, Jose.
Do you people have any sense, or do you just reprint whatever bullshit press releases come over the wires?
Mahru the robot dances to mask its emotional insecurities {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2008 12:53AM I dunno.
When the reporter chick turns her back on the robot to face the camera, I get a bad feeling about what the robot might do.
Oyster Card RFID hack gets detailed {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2008 1:01AM I have a feeling it would be good to start a foil-lined card pouch company right about now.
Ford MyKey lets parents control their kids' driving habits {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2008 4:44PM Slippery slope, folks.
Just like smoking bans for teenagers, now nobody can smoke in any establishment (in most of the USofA, anyway).
Mark my words, congress will mandate this as the technology develops.
I don't smoke, but I feel the government should have no say in this.
You'll see.
Ainol's palatable V3000 PMP priced at $100 {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2008 11:33PM I'm getting the T-shirt.
