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Sony talks future of OLED, Blu-ray's chances against DVD {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2008 3:52PM Seriously I would be willing to pay up to 2 to 3 times the price of a DVD player for a Blue Ray player. My brand new DVD player cost me 60 canadian.
Santa Fe group allergic to RF wants WiFi banned {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 11:38AM Hey all,
Don't dismiss things too fast. We all have mechanism that continuously repairs our DNA. DNA is constantly being damaged by all kinds of things including some forms of radiation. There are known conditions where the repair mechanisms don't work well and a person can become sensitive to things like radiations. Apparently some of these conditions are diagnosed when a person goes for an X-ray and it results in blistering and burning of their flesh! For most people the radiation damage would be almost instantly repaired so that they wouldn't notice the effect if X-rays it but for others it isn't the case. I'm not saying that wireless communication are a problem but physically and biologically it isn't impossible.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair#Medicine_and_DNA_repair_modulation
TTAC tests the ZAP Xebra, hates it {Autoblog Green}
Mar 14th 2008 8:25PM Looks like to ones you see everywhere in Italy except the Italian ones have motorcycle engines.
Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be single best thing ever invented {Engadget}
Feb 27th 2008 5:20PM Finally! I've been waiting for more robots since I got a Roomba and realized how insanely useful they are. I also need a bathroom cleaning robot and a clothes folding robot. There is no reason in 2008 for clothes to come out of the dryer unfolded.
Take II: Is driving short distances really better than walking? {Autoblog Green}
Feb 27th 2008 12:11PM Sustaining a human life by creating a job is incredibly polluting (especially if this human lives in a society with high living standards) However, in the case of walking vs driving if you are going to include pollution through human effort (which I agree you should as it is probably the most important source of pollution), you should also take into account the energy spent with the money you paid to the the humans who designed, built and sold the car as well as the humans who extracted, processed and sold you the petroleum. I'm pretty sure when you take all of those into account walking is much less damaging to the environment than driving. If you think about it, cheap, made in china Wall-Mart products are probably the most advantageous for the environment as they sustain humans who use very little energy and resources. There's a very large trade-off between the environment and ethical treatment.
There are only three ways to save the environment, reduce population, reduce standards of living or find technology which increase efficiency. No society can break the laws of thermodynamics.
Ideally every product and service should be produced in sustainable quantities by super efficient intelligent robots and consumed by a sustainably small population.
Population has by far the greatest impact on the environment as there is a minimum standard of living people will accept. Recycling a few bottles or saving a few liters of gasoline does not make a significant difference relative to the energy and land spent for basic needs like food, housing and health care. Since people are not willing to live in a closet on half a cup of rice a day, reducing the population is the only option.
Microsoft announces new strategy of interoperability, jumps on the "open" bandwagon {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 12:55PM non-commercial? that means if I make a program using those so called "free" APIs I can't use it at work? that's crap.
The CharmingBurka breaks no laws of the Koran, only taste {Engadget}
Feb 7th 2008 10:34AM Why stop there, I believe all women's clothes should be available in versions that send pictures of what's underneath.
Best Buy kicks analog TVs to the curb {Engadget}
Oct 17th 2007 2:34PM Analog vs digital != CRT vs LCD
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 33 {Engadget}
Sep 12th 2007 8:11AM I'd like to have one.
