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Chevy's Volt gets a lightning rebadge to become the Opel Ampera for Europe {Engadget}
Jan 27th 2009 11:54AM Is it just me or is the Opel badge perfect for a line of electric cars? It's like a lightning bolt!
GM should forget about the Chevy Volt and sell them as Opel's in North America. And whenever they come out with other electric cars market them as Opels too.
That way the cars will be perceived by US buyers as fancy imports from a brand new green start up company, when in fact the company is older than GM itself. But when you are trying to sell cars it is all about perception.
Puppy vs. Roboquad: the ultimate man-machine showdown {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2008 2:44PM I, for one, welcome our new puppy overloards
Super Soaker inventor looking to double solar efficiency {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 2:44PM But didn't you hate how the barrels would always crack and break on the 50s and 30s. The next generation ones with the solid barrels took much more physical punishment in close quarters, hand-to-hand water fights.
Toshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage? {Engadget}
Dec 19th 2007 2:55PM Yeah, or if you are a small town and survive the Nuclear apocalypse, you won't need to build any gay windmills, and you know what kind of trouble that gets you in. Damn you New Burn.
Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2007 3:03PM Is it just me, or does the robot crash at the beginning? You hear the windows chime and then the robot freezes while saying: "I am the first Canadian android to make a public appear." Then the camera cuts. Whole new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death.
Zune 2 in the wild, Wal-Mart style {Engadget}
Nov 1st 2007 1:59PM I don't know about Walmart, but in some stores the last digit in the price is an indicator to the sales person on how much they are allowed to dicker with sticker price to make the sale. For example, the 4 might mean "don't offer this product for less, it has a low margin", or it might actually mean "old product, sell at any opportunity". I used to work at a store and when things were on sale and the price ended in a certain digit, it meant the item was discontinued and they want you to almost give it away so that it's not left in inventory. The special digit helps so that you don't always have to retreat to the computer and can make an offer on the spot.
Panasonic's DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player already reviewed {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2007 7:56PM If it doesn't have built in Hi-def audio decoders, it makes the PiP completely useless. On HD-DVD, PiP combines 2 feeds into one. It decodes 2 video feeds, and decodes 2 audio feeds and mixes them into one PCM stream. If it doesn't decode audio then it can't do PiP properly. Outputting the undecoded bitstream is useless, because you can only put out one at a time.
Toshiba nixes Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD rumor {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2007 2:32PM The thing that is limiting about the xbox 360 add on, is that the Xbox doesn't output 7.1 channels of uncompressed PCM or raw Dolby TrueHD bitstreams over the HDMI.
That's what I was hoping this rumored 360 was about. That they would add highdef audio output to the HDMI port and make it a fully HDMI 1.3a device. Then that way you could plug in either the HD-DVD drive or future blu-ray drive and enjoy the format to its fullest extent.
Toshiba nixes Xbox 360 with built-in HD DVD rumor {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2007 2:25PM Yeah, the first gen of the "superblu" sucked. The main reason is because it supports blu more than HD-DVD. It doesn't support any of the advanced features of either format. So you would be spending over $1000 to get a player that already sucks, and will suck worse in a year. It doesn't play any PiP special features or connect to the internet for either format. It was already obsolete the day they announced it.
The next generation of combo player from LG and Samsung might be better, but so far the only BD profile 2.0 player I've heard of is the unreleased Deawoo. Although the PS3 probably has enough processing power to do profile 2.0 in software with an update. So it is really the ONLY blu-ray player anyone should buy.
Dutch government abandons e-voting for red pencil {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2007 3:21PM It doesn't get any easier than walking into a both with a piece of paper that has the candidates names with a checkbox besides each one on it. You just x, check, circle, scribble, doodle, or fill in your choices box. Then to count the votes, 3 or more people sit in a circle and they pull the votes out one at a time and all agree which name is marked and each keep a tally on their consensus. No hanging chads or mysterious votes from the dark corners of the internet. Our results are usually in by the time everyone goes to bed.
