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SmartQ TAO sports a swanky screen {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2008 5:40PM First of all, "staunchly" is an adverb. You're using it as an adjective. Second, it means "loyally" or "in a committed fashion". Did you mean "hefty"? They sort of sound similar.
Only not really.
MIT working up microbatteries to power implantable medical sensors {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2008 11:54PM Was "bruited" the Word of the Day? Anyway, you didn't use it correctly. Bruit means to spread a rumor widely. I don't think the researchers' statement about the microcontact printing process quite qualifies as a rumor.
Oregon begins building first "solar highway" project {Engadget}
Aug 17th 2008 12:33PM You guys need to read the article. This isn't being funded out of taxpayer dollars. A number of financial companies will pay for the installation and then sell the power to ODOT for the same price it is paying now. The reason this makes sense is that private companies are eligible for solar subsidies that ODOT is not. Some of those credits *are* Oregon state credits, but a bunch are Federal, which means I'm subsidizing your highway. That's fine with me.
Incidentally, the 8,000 sq ft size mentioned in both of these articles cannot be right. The fact sheet mentions 594 panels, which equates to 175w per panel -- a somewhat dated output capacity (newer panels like the ones I just put on a building generate 185w). Standard panels are 3'x6', so 594 panels would take up about 10,700 sq ft.
Not that anyone cares.
Video: iPhone 3G unboxing and first look {Engadget}
Jul 11th 2008 12:31AM Nope
Video: iPhone 3G unboxing and first look {Engadget}
Jul 11th 2008 12:30AM He actually starts with Japanese (when he says "Chinese"), then switches to Korean, then finally the character-drawing thing is Chinese.
Japanese uses a combination of kanji, which are based on Chinese characters, and two syllabic alphabets called hiragana and katakana. Katakana is only used for foreign words, but hiragana shows up regularly in normal Japanese. And because any Japanese word written in kanji can also be spelled out phonetically in hiragana, Japanese computers and keyboards use hiragana as their input method. The hiragana on the screen when he said "Chinese" was the giveaway.
Video: iPhone 3G unboxing and first look {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2008 11:17PM Um, that was Japanese, not Chinese.
The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2008 2:48PM @chris joseph: "Kinetic Art" is a term of art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art
And the thing that impressed me about this is the fact that they managed to control the inherent elasticity of monofilament, in both the horizontal and vertical directions. I'm surprised that the balls don't bounce at the top or bottom of their travel and that they're not vibrating from side to side. A regular servo motor would in all likelihood create significant horizontal motion due to deflection of the motor shaft, especially if the line is taught to reduce vertical bounce. My guess is there is a separate damping mechanism at work here. An impressive bit of engineering, whatever you think of BMW.
Avcen Jetpod T-100 City Flying Taxi says "naught" to highways {Engadget}
May 27th 2008 1:01PM Um, why is this filed under 'Tablet PCs'? Because the Jetpod T-100 looks about as aerodynamic as one?
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 1) {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2008 12:38AM Congrats, peeps!
Researchers devise coffee machine that can tell good coffee from bad {Engadget}
Feb 13th 2008 2:56PM I think you mean "enviable," not "envious".
