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Here you go. Big removable battery, big screen, lots of cores and memory, ready to roll! You can get what you want today... And a lot of the 2nd/3rd tier cellphone brands in Asia have removable batteries. The cartels you speak of tend to offer what people want - and most don't care about removable batteries.

Comrade, do you need GPS tracker and/or Jammer? We have you covered!

In South america you can see lots of 3 passengers motorcycles which come in this bubble form factor.
They are priced in 1700-2000 USD.
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
and it looks like the electric ones are coming too.

Break out the linears guys. Uncle Charlie is sleeping!

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

I hope my neighbors are looking forward to hearing my 'experiments' on every speaker in their houses. Even when the house mains are disconnected.

They hooked up one of these to a laptop battery and some capacitors, with a switch as a trigger:

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

Since your dog likes the taste of your homework:

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

There are a number of others along side the HHOs and I will be first to grant spec sheets are NOT the be-all end-all.

But the tech is there, it works and is more than the snake oil that has been sold and now looks as if is about to do an Enron or Madoff.

It also seems strange that they are claiming that it will reduce the price much since you can already buy CCD X-ray cameras for $500-$1000. In addition to all these drawbacks you also still need a very high-resolution camera initially to take pictures of the sandpaper they use for the filter.

This idea seems so far behind the currently available technology that it seems very unlikely it will ever be practical and it does not seem to have any particular advantage.

Now that would be some impressive logistics.
It's not like you can just load them on a truck and drive across the border.

What? You can. You totally can.

Well, you can, but then your truck and computers will all end up in the Atlantic ocean.

Unless you drive them onto a boat.

You'll need to find some space on some cargo ship, but then we aren't just talking about knowing someone to get your container on the ship without anyone knowing.

Anyone except for the Chinese government, which owns the ship (effectively or literally) and is in on the deal.

It also has to be unloaded somewhere without someone asking "Hey, where are we going to put this unmarked container that apparently doesn't belong to anyone"

It's being unloaded in China, just like all the really valuable cars that are stolen in other countries. They get fake bills of lading before they even go into a shipping container and are gone within the hour.

It's too bad you have literally no idea what you're on about. I'm not saying that these machines definitely went to China, but these machines definitely could have gone to China, via the mechanisms already in place for moving stolen goods to China.

Product on Alibaba... description includes CODEC

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

Even the Datasheet says it's a CODEC

http://www.vlsi.fi/fileadmin/d...

It's actually closer to 10 cents a pop. So it adds $1000 to a 10k unit order.

If the poor IT guy has to wait 10 seconds for the USB-to-ethernet dongle to be recognized (we'll assume "it just works" and no time is needed for driver installation), for 10k units that's 27.8 hours of extra billable time. If he makes $50k/yr, that's $25/hour. So the extra cost to use a USB-to-ethernet dongle per 10k units is $695 per incident. Just two incidents and the built-in ethernet port is cheaper.

RS-232 and parallel ports aren't added because they're rarely used. Ethernet is. Every year in my computer consulting business, I probably spend a cumulative 3-5 hours at client's offices (billed at $100/hr) twiddling my thumbs because they asked me to set up a device without an ethernet port, and to do that I need the WiFi password. They don't know the password, and have to run around digging through papers or making phone calls to figure out the password. That right there is several hundred dollars my clients could save if they'd bought devices with built-in 10 cent ethernet ports.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/...

These guys can supply 8000 kg a day of this type, and there's thousands of types, and there's thousands of manufacturers just like them on Alibaba.

The article says that a huge benefit of wood is that it can be taken down/disassembled much more easily and with less energy than concrete. I believe that's what the OP was referring to when he said "Maybe this wave of construction is only expected to stand for 30yrs?". I don't think he meant to say that wood wasn't durable.

Personally, I still think that wood is a luxury. It may not be a luxury in Canada, but in France, wood is still a lot more difficult to buy than cement and rebar. So I still expect cement and rebar to be the default for low-income housing and lower budget office buildings.

And even in the picture of the article in question, or in a better picture of the same building I found here, cement and rebar are still being used for the lower floor and the stairs/elevators shafts, not just the foundation, so obviously the promoters of this pre-fab wood idea still think that cement has a place.

And my second concern would be the chemicals used in those slabs of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels.

Wood construction has been propelled forward by the growing availability of cross-laminated timber (CLT). These enormous, prefabricated panels, made from several layers of wood glued perpendicular to one another and measuring up to 20 inches in thickness, are strong enough to hold up bigger buildings and arrive on site ready to be assembled like Jenga pieces. It’s also this heft that helps make CLT fire-resistant: the outside layers char slowly, protecting the wood inside from burning.

For instance, what is the glue used in those panels? And is it only the glue and the wood that make those structures fire-resistant? Or is it something else?

Prefabricated slabs of CLT, which form the framework of most timber buildings, are usually shipped in from Austria. “CLT manufacturing isn’t sufficiently developed in France,” says Viguier. “I’d like this project to help revive wood consumption and trigger the growth of factories in the region.”

Usually shipped from Austria? Are they sure about that? Aren't those slabs of CLTs going to come from China instead where they usually don't have good records of what chemicals are used in their manufacturing processes? That being said, those CLT slabs are as likely to be coming from Ukraine or Finland also.

http://www.alibaba.com/corpora...

..so, more rickshaws and fewer cars?

Electric rickshaws have been common in China for decades. There are dozens of models to choose from.

Nah! You can buy those Lithium Sulfurr batteries today thru several sources. See for example, https://www.alibaba.com/showro...

becoming the global proxy for "Everything".

Do you realize that Amazon is the world's second biggest e-commerce company?

It is silly to label them a monopoly when they aren't even the market leader.

FFS, first or second place hardly matters when there are only two fucking players left. This isn't about "leaders". This is about destroying the market altogether. You can't point at the other monopoly to dismiss or justify the existence of the arrogant and soul-crushing behavior of market domination. It's become a pathetic joke to even have anti-monopoly laws on the books anymore. At this rate, the world will be reduced to a dozen mega-corps within the next decade or two, with Amazon being the "Everything Everything" proxy. The middle class will dissolve away just as the concept of competition will. In the end, there will only be the 0.0001%, and the rest of the enslaved planet.

There are many dangerous addictions, but Greed is the one that will ultimately lead to our demise.

becoming the global proxy for "Everything".

Do you realize that Amazon is the world's second biggest e-commerce company?

It is silly to label them a monopoly when they aren't even the market leader.

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/...

$1/piece in units of 1000.

How can you not be more interested in YN-CART105 with smooth and elegant lines

China SUV electric car with big space low price high quality US $6650.00 / Unit MOQ: 2 Units https://wholesaler.alibaba.com...

What's so special about this laptop?

If I go to Alibaba and search for "inexpensive linux laptop", I get 19k hits with products like:
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

The big thing seems to be an angle rather than technology (hardware or software).

What's so special about this laptop?

If I go to Alibaba and search for "inexpensive linux laptop", I get 19k hits with products like:
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

The big thing seems to be an angle rather than technology (hardware or software).

What's so special about this laptop?

If I go to Alibaba and search for "inexpensive linux laptop", I get 19k hits with products like:
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

The big thing seems to be an angle rather than technology (hardware or software).

Colistin for your animal feed.
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

Apple is claiming they did it to make the phone waterproof. Apparently, they didn't bother to spend about 12 seconds with Google searching for "ip67 headphone jack", because if they DID, they'd have found countless IP67-rated headphone jacks like this one:

http://koumay.en.alibaba.com/p...

For those who don't know, the "7" in "IP67" means "waterproof to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes". I didn't have time to search further, but I'd be shocked if there wasn't at least one company that makes IP68 ("waterproof to a depth guaranteed by manufacturer, generally 1-3 meters, for some period of time also guaranteed by the manufacturer"). Note that IP ratings for things like headphone jacks don't guarantee that the jack itself won't end up with gunk in it if you drop it into mud, only that the jack ITSELF won't allow water to pass through to the interior of the phone case.

Nope -

Lambo hover boards: http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/free-shipping-electric-balance-scooter-lowest_60450460206.html?spm=a2700.7724857.0.0.MFbOVk&s=p

Close, but no cigar!

Maybe this plus some silver and gold paint?

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

https://www.alibaba.com/produc...

Somehow I don't think that is really CE CEC or FDA approved as the picture implies.

It's the same reason why 1366x768 laptop displays aren't going away. There's a huge supply of them, they work, and they're cheap.

Guangdong and Shenzhen are mass producing cheap and common tablet parts like mad. You can find and buy them yourself on Alibaba; there's tons of cheap 8 and 16GB eMMC chips, 1GB RAM chips, and ARM processors. Companies like Samsung make higher quality and newer, pioneering products, like chips that integrate the storage & RAM together. Soon, the Chinese generics will add these to their lineup, making tablets even smaller and cheaper.

If you want something different, vote with your wallet and buy something different. Then, if enough people do, that's what will become cheap and mass-produced.

It's the same reason why 1366x768 laptop displays aren't going away. There's a huge supply of them, they work, and they're cheap.

Guangdong and Shenzhen are mass producing cheap and common tablet parts like mad. You can find and buy them yourself on Alibaba; there's tons of cheap 8 and 16GB eMMC chips, 1GB RAM chips, and ARM processors. Companies like Samsung make higher quality and newer, pioneering products, like chips that integrate the storage & RAM together. Soon, the Chinese generics will add these to their lineup, making tablets even smaller and cheaper.

If you want something different, vote with your wallet and buy something different. Then, if enough people do, that's what will become cheap and mass-produced.

It's the same reason why 1366x768 laptop displays aren't going away. There's a huge supply of them, they work, and they're cheap.

Guangdong and Shenzhen are mass producing cheap and common tablet parts like mad. You can find and buy them yourself on Alibaba; there's tons of cheap 8 and 16GB eMMC chips, 1GB RAM chips, and ARM processors. Companies like Samsung make higher quality and newer, pioneering products, like chips that integrate the storage & RAM together. Soon, the Chinese generics will add these to their lineup, making tablets even smaller and cheaper.

If you want something different, vote with your wallet and buy something different. Then, if enough people do, that's what will become cheap and mass-produced.

No this place here or here in the U.S. and if you're motivated feel free to set one up yourself.

Small Injection Molding machines offer much more flexibility,
and are reasonably priced. This one, This one, in particular, should appeal to Hack-a-Day readers.

That still makes PowerPacks a horrible deal.

http://www.alibaba.com/product...

I just finished an e-mail exchange with that company. I negotiated $75 a pop for the 12V 200Ah Gel SLA batteries when you get minimum order quantity of 50, which would be needed to match the PowerPack's storage levels.

$3,750. For the price of one PowerWall, I can match the PowerPack's storage capacity using SLA batteries. At the largest dimensions for the battery, I could run 50 (10 stacked vertically x 5 stacks) in a roughly 8.5' tall x 6.5' wide x 1' deep enclosure with self-powered gas/heat ventilation, done safely. That's roughly the same size of the cabinets currently used to house PowerPacks in Jackson, Florida at a refrigeration plant, except 1/2 to 1/3 as deep.

The SLA is also deep-cycle and can withstand serious drain far better than Lithium cells. It can also handle higher peak current draw (though not as much as if I were to go with straight non-gel SLA.) The lithium cells have an advantage in that they have better charge cycle life (roughly 25% on average) but they're also more sensitive to temperature than SLA, which in good ol' hot SoCal is quite often an issue.

So currently, a PowerPack utilizes more space, costs ~7x more, AND it can't handle the amperage load the bank of SLAs can, plus there's the issue of thermal control.

I wonder where the bean-counters and brains were on this one.

If I were losing that many people to malaria I don't think I'd care much what the WHO had to say about it. I'd place an order for the stuff and spray away.

If the WHO wants to get dosed in DDT they can show up and complain about it.

As to studies... I have to believe they can do lab studies on it in the US. Use it in the open? No... but in a lab? Feed it to the rats? Sure. Why not? They take apart the cute little critters brains and feed them worse so why not a little DDT in the kibble?

Put it back in your pants hero boy. There is not, and never was, any WHO ban on DDT use to fight malarial mosquitoes, or any other disease vector. Notice the key words: "WHO approved". http://www.alibaba.com/product...

Yep.

The anti DDT lobby could arguably be cited for much of the annual death toll to malaria which if deliberate would put them up there with the nastiest powers ever.

The kids getting sprayed with DDT in the face didn't suffer ill effects. Everyone has seen those old videos of the kids in the pool sprayed with DDT. And that is used as an example of hubris.

But... do they cite how many of those kids that got sprayed... In the face... actually suffered any kind of ill effects?

Nope. On that point they go dark for some reason. Which is odd because if there were ill effects you'd assume they'd cite them. It would have made their case stronger. But... nothing. Which contextually implies that they didn't cite it because actually there weren't any ill effects.

Does DDT harm eagles? Apparently. If I had to choose between eagles and millions of my own people annually... I'd fucking genocide the eagles. I mean... I'd try and keep the species going in a zoo or something. But I'm not sacrificing millions of people for some eagles.

Oh BS on the "anti DDT lobby could arguably be cited for much of the annual death toll to malaria " lie. If for no other reason, that there was never any ban on using DDT to fight malaria mosquitoes; it is only banned for commercial use, like cotton plantations. And, if you have any sort of understanding of resistance, you will realize that ending the 99% of DDT use (not exaggerating) that does not involve malaria will extend the effectiveness of the 1% of use which still remains, because you're not making resistant mosquitoes as a side effect.
And that's exactly what happened. DDT is not used in malaria fighting in places like Ceylon, which were covered in DDT saturated cotton plantations previously, and where the mosquitoes remain resistant. DDT is still used in places like South America, however, where cotton was never a big crop and mosquitoes didn't develop the same level of resistance.
But if you find you are having a problem with malarial mosquitoes around your house, get yourself 20 metric tons of DDT. http://www.alibaba.com/product...

http://www.alibaba.com/product...

this one supplier can make 80 tons a month of just this one kind.

might as well take a whole shipping container full every month and just throw it in the ocean.

Then you figure how many people make this crap.

Then there's the soap sized chunks! The above is smeared into the pores, not just rinsed away like lava soap, how much of that do we make!

so did they or did they not have a running prototype? it seems they did but then they wanted to develop another more expensive product.

the story reads like they started r&d after getting the money. _all_ r&d including case manufacturing options(yes there are other options than injection molding and 3d printing, which are all pretty much cheaper in their unit range) and all code for the micro and choosing another micro..

I mean, how the fuck can you spend so much more on your r&d that you were supposed to already have been done?

furthermore, they didn't design the product to the means they had available - for example, if you're a low run and injection molding tooling is too expensive(and you know that because you've done a cursory google search beforehand, right, right???) you can get of the shelf aluminium cases and such quite cheaply. sure it's 5-10 times more expensive per unit than injection moulding but still would be under 10% of the 99 bucks. lasercutting etc would all be options - they would just have had to compromise on the overall shape of the frigging device. like, fuck, http://www.alibaba.com/product... here's a box 3 dollars + cheap ass shipping. or a bunch of other similar boxes, extrusion they could have cut etc. then the cheap ass method of pcb for the ends( cheap cheap in low run too) to hold the display, buttons etc.

fuck you could even source them as 3d printed pieces nowadays cheaper than the quoted 25$ per case due to the tooling.

really, the whole story reads like they didn't do the development beforehand and promised stuff out of their asses. they wanted to change the product to a more expensive one and do the r&d again after the kickstarter while the kickstarter should only have had to pay for the production of what they already demonstrated.

whats even worse? they're using this as a publiciy stunt for their smartphone apps! that is they have a revenue source, they're an existing company, they just blew a lot of customers money on paychecks to themselves and didn't deliver.

You can get nitrogen concentratorsthat are even cheaper. They're power hungry but otherwise fairly inexpensive. And if you are just trying to do fire suppression, you don't need a pure nitrogen atmosphere by any means.

Took a while, but I found some for you. http://www.alibaba.com/product...

US Dollar is not worth its weight in paper.

According to Wikipedia, a dollar bill weights around 1g. According to Alibaba, a ton of offset printing paper costs around $600 per ton. That means paper costs around 0.06 cents per gram, or put another way, a dollar bill is about 16 times its weight in paper.

That stirling engine is not working in conjunction with a heat pump.
On the other hand that is a nice idea of yours. Now you only do need to do the math in which circumstances a Stirling Engine can be combined with a heat pump to yield surplus power. I guess if you have a warm enough underground reservoir (like one you heat yourself via summer time with thermal solar panels) then you only need a pump to pump water down and get 'warm' water by convection back. Then you add a heat pump to increase the temperature useable for a stirling engine, and with some fiddling you might be able to run like a 2kW generator from the stirling engine and only use about 1kW power for the pump and heat pump.

Hm, interesting, Alibaba has quite a lot of offers in that area: http://www.alibaba.com/showroo... who had guessed that?

http://www.alibaba.com/product...

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed. (William Gibson)"

What a revolution for global education (similar to the OLPC hope)!

Millions of uranium centrifuge parts sold openly:

http://www.alibaba.com/country...

Somebody call Colin Powell!

Bulk supply, starting at $33 each:

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/s...

Naw, for the equipped Slashdotter, you will want one of these bad boys.

Gotta cover all your bases.

Just what you need for any apocalyptic scenario. It has heat resistant layers, a bulletproof layer, and a layer for make you comfortable in your worktime.

Naw, for the equipped Slashdotter, you will want one of these bad boys.

Gotta cover all your bases.

Not sure where you got $6k from.
We have a Yamaha & Juki machines and they cost between $60k and $120k new + feeders.

For $6k you get somthing more like this.
http://www.alibaba.com/product...

Not all of them

For only $0.50, you can get this nicer toy microscope on Alibaba. People have been making microscopes from drops of water or glass beads since Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. With tiny optics, the view is dim, but it works.

Yup...

This is the arm for the little guy. ; This one is for wholesale business

Its amazing what you can get over there. You can buy anything from a completely assembled product down to every little piece that goes to make one. I am currently looking into having some of my stuff replicated and sold through them.