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LifestreamWired notes how much people hate hearing Leaf Blowers. They even provide a link to Husqvarna’s new 356BTx. But the basic premise that they get wrong here is that leaves don’t have to be removed. Raked or blown or otherwise. It’s just some esthetic nonsense humans have been fixed on. Like striving towards perfect homogenized [...]
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(Anandtech) CNET has two top 10 lists of the Best and Worst products of the past 10 years. It’s pretty shallow and includes software but is nevertheless a fun read.
Top list includes iPod, TiVo, Google, Napster, Firefox, PalmPilot, Motorola Startac (?), Apple iMac (!?), Sony Digital Mavica and The Sims.
Bottom list in made up of [...]
Almir Heralic at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden looks like he may be the next toymaker to the king — either that, or he’s getting ready for world domination. His HR-2 robot may be small — think Kondo KHR-1, rather than ASIMO — but don’t let its size fool you. According to Heralic, [...]
I noticed that Gizmodo (and here) was raving on about the SleepTracker again so I had to make a note of it.
How does SLEEPTRACKER work?
SLEEPTRACKER continuously monitors signals from your body that indicate whether you are asleep or awake. Because you wear SLEEPTRACKER on your wrist like a watch, its internal sensors can detect [...]
Via Warp2search. Popular technology poses the question whether the iPod series is in fact hyped up far beyond what it actually delivers. Perhaps nothing really new but it’s worth pointing out nevertheless.
Though hinted by the author as a possible problem, I would like to see more data on the life span of those microdrives that [...]
Released last weekend with great hoopla in and around the Gizmondo flagship store in London. The handheld multimedia all-in-one consoles are getting better and bolder. And there is yet time for upstart companies to compete with the great triad of handheld devices.
“The proprietary Gizmondo platform runs a version of Windows CE on its speedy 400MHz [...]
Via Boing Boing …
While only about 9,000 of his namesake cars were ever built, John Z. DeLorean’s place in auto history was assured as soon as the gull-winged sports cars rumbled off the assembly line.
While apt to be remembered popularly as the man behind the car modified for time travel in the “Back to the [...]
Robosapiens V2 is in the works. Twice as expensive, but with twice as many features and a bit bigger and more versatile. WowWee are also launching two new robots from the same series, undoubtedly the first steps towards something truly great. Can’t wait until Robosapiens matures a couple of more generations, giving him say a [...]
After years of meddling and countless dead ends I have finally arrived at a solution that I can live with. The problems with the Epox mainboard (#1200, #1209) were remedied by a) getting another harddrive, namely a Seagate instead of a Maxtor and b) by replacing the G400 with a Radeon 9200. Config is stable. [...]
I did a big mistake yesterday as I just assumed that the “new” 8x Memorex DVD+R Printable discs would work just as well as the old 4x Memorex discs that I’ve been using for a couple of months now.
I don’t know if there is something wrong with the write strategy for the disc (by CMC [...]
