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The other (much more ambitious) idea, is to mix it with an HTML 5 demo I already was considering. I'd need some way to turn Kinect events into mouse events, I guess. Something that a browser can handle, in any case, so I think that means mouse events. Something multitouchy would be nice, but I don't think browsers support that, do they?

Step one is complete: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/hacked-kinect-taught-to-work-as-multitouch-interface/. Now they just need to create an html5 demo.

You just described WP7 and gaming on that platform. http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/xbox-live-for-windows-phone-7-your-xbox-isnt-in-your-phone-yet/

Let me put this into context for you: This web-site shows you what the launch of the iphone vs. the palm pre looked like. The palm pre sold about 50,000 units in its first two days. People like you were saying then that the launch looked like a success even though there were supply problems. Fast forward 11 months, and people started calling it a complete flop. So, you say it's too soon to tell, I say, history is my guide. You can't topple giants with slack starts.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/xbox-goes-profitable-almost-like-a-grown-up-business/

I'm not saying overall they are ahead, but I wasn't sure what you meant by your post.

Yes, how can they compare the launch of the WP7 platform with 10 different handsets to the sales of a single Android device? Seriously?

How appropriate: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/09/bbc-iplayer-going-international-next-year-will-be-either-fee-o/

There is an article on engadget that says the guy doesn't necessarily want to publish his driver :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/07/kinect-does-hackers-bidding-but-not-for-fortune-or-fame-video/
Maybe that's why the bounty was raised.

Hey Microsoft, instead of fighting your customers like the RIAA (which has worked so well for them), why don't you just offer a version with drivers and charge double or triple?

The Kinect is amazing, I'd easily pay $300-$450 for on if it meant I could control my PC like the Minority Report but I'm not paying $150 to dance in front of my Xbox

Don't we all read engadget?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/05/mac-pro-server-quietly-introduced-as-xserve-heads-for-the-grave/

Here's the server:

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2000/08/30/cat_eye_finring_review/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/08/genius-ring-mouse-slips-around-your-finger-cues-up-beyonce-jams/

These guys offer various alternative pointing device solutions:
http://www.adapt-it.org.uk/browse_category.asp?id=40&item=Mice

And there are solutions like these out there too:
http://www.fentek-ind.com/nh-mouse.htm

Or just do it directly with this.

As I pointed out elsewhere, this is nothing new. People have been breaking out the serial port data lines in the dock connector for at least 4 or 5 years now.

how long until the company gets a C&D from Apple?

Never, this isn't a hack. Apple publishes the specs for the Dock Connector for exactly this purpose. There are even companies out there which are already producing cables that convert the Dock Connector to serial and RJ-11 interface. In fact, people were publishing how to do this as early as 2006.

Nothing to see here, really. This news is ancient.

how long until the company gets a C&D from Apple?

Never, this isn't a hack. Apple publishes the specs for the Dock Connector for exactly this purpose. There are even companies out there which are already producing cables that convert the Dock Connector to serial and RJ-11 interface. In fact, people were publishing how to do this as early as 2006.

Nothing to see here, really. This news is ancient.

From January, The comment is here.

Google is selling this phone because it advances the technology and their phone partners wouldn't sell it. Expect them to sell an Android + Snapdragon slate for the same reasons.... I doubt Google even wants to sell phones - I think they just want to get the new good technologies adopted so that people can get used to Internet everywhere quicker. This serves their bottom line because when most people use the Internet they use Google services, which Google sells ads on. You can't very well sell Internet ads to be viewed by people who aren't close to a browser. [me]

It links to this interesting article where the CEO of Asus was backing away from the Android smartbook they had recently pulled in mid-computex.

"Currently, I still don't see a clear market for smartbooks," said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek Computer, during an investors' conference in Taipei.

So he pulls the Linux Snapdragon smartbook and shows up a few days later at an investors conference - just before the W7 launch - flanked by reps from Microsoft and Intel - probably glancing cautiously from one to the other hoping nothing bad happens to his precious W7 netbooks (little does he know...). And he gives a carefully prepared speech about how Intel and Microsoft are going to crush their enemies, see them driven before them, hear the lamentation of their women...

And now world & dog sees Microsoft as a fading power, Apple mobile platforms - and mobile platforms in general - as the next generation of user interface, and suddenly now he sees a future in it again. Intel is driving as hard as they can to be the thing that gives people what they want. Microsoft? Let's just say the KIN didn't work out and WP7 has a steeper hill to climb than it might have. What a difference a year makes.

I love my Samsung Epic Android phone, but obviously I know I would not have any such thing if both Apple and Google had not dared to bring us change, each in their own way.

That article was about Google's Nexus 1 phones. Remember that Google shopped its candybar phone to every phone vendor and they wouldn't take it, so Google made it, sold a grip of them, and ushered in all this sweet tech we enjoy today. If they had not done so when they did, we'd not have seen the first good big-screen Android platforms until after WP7 launched, if ever. And now those phones are selling 20M units a quarter in the US alone, giving 44% market share, driving every phone vendor that builds it into profitability or record profitability, giving US non-AT&T networks a phone to sell that isn't absolutely pathetic, and putting money in the pockets of a vast economy of app developers and advertising buyers (and of course, Google).

The message is pretty clear. If Google gives you a reference platform, Run With It! Refusing is not going to keep them from bringing new tech to market. They don't want the manufacturing and retail money because they want to leave that business to their partners. It's a messy customer service business with low leverage. It's not their strong point. But if their partners won't give us progress, they aren't averse to bringing it directly and reaping a few billion in hardware revenue along the way. Microsoft and Intel used to be able to prevent progress, to prevent "cannabilization" of their established markets. But now those days are done. Vendors used to be able to hold off the releases with "tomorrow, tommorow" and "any day now". Any more? No. That's not going to fly. We'll have progress now whether the established hardware vendors are ready to give it or not. There will be no stalling any more.

/this is me agreeing with you.

In September they reached 95/100 for Acid3. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/07/internet-explorer-9-beta-sees-video-demo-hits-95-100-on-acid3-t/

Don't discount it. Once the technology improves, this could be a way of making less expensive, much stronger bodies for vehicles. You could then put whatever engine/suspension you wanted under them.

It could provide the opposite approach taken by the Trexa EV.

Why not just use Graffiti. I think it would be much easier to learn and provides visual feedback. It's also now available for Android platforms.

Although very cool at the time, the original Apple Newton handwriting recognition recognition was somewhat weak and suffered from too much emphasis on predictive dictionary lookup. So much so that even a perfectly formed "falafel" always resulted in "father" until falafel was added to the dictionary. The solution was Graffiti. Later Newtons had much better handwriting recognition and Graffiti was no longer needed, but the Palm Pilot, a Newton competitor, adopted Graffiti and was, thus able to run on much cheaper hardware and take over the PDA market. After many years, legal wrangling put the ownership of Graffiti in the hands of Access, which has made it available for Android.

A legally mandated ballot screen. http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/windows-7s-european-browser-ballot-screen-revealed-rolling-out/

if the ipad is over priced why isn't their a single competitor with a similarly priced device? Every single device that matches specs is $700 plus. now don't go find a resistive touch screen, I said match specs.

Uh, OK. Boy, that was easy.

Oh, you said match specs. I don't know if Dell offers a cheaper, more Apple-like alternative to the Dell's far superior Gorilla Glass.

Further, N-hexane use is already banned in China for use as a solvent when cleaning LCD panels. Also, Wintek (the screen supplier for Apple, Nokia, and several other companies) claims that they have not used it since August of 2009. (Source: Engadget) In other words, this story seems to be more than a year behind. Sure, the effects can still be seen in much the same way that the effects of Chernobyl can still be seen, but that doesn't mean people are still actively being harmed as this story seems to imply.

what security is there besides 8 channels (Not that channels offer security)?

In addition to what sibling comments mention, at least one WHDI product line has HDCP security.

Check the bandwith on the Datastorm! To bad the video is gone.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/the-playstation-phone-is-still-real/ - They're saying yep, real. Codename is Zeus.

Has anyone else heard of fake iPhones?! That was news to me.

There's an entire primarily-Chinese industry based on imitation of successful (especially Apple) products. There's even an acronym coined by Engadget: KIRF - Keepin' It Real Fake. Check out the link to see the "state of the art".

Except that Apple allows programmable emulators as of last month, when they approved the C64 emulator with BASIC support. But hey, don't let that get in the way of a righteous story.

It's good to see cheaper android phones coming out soon.

I am still waiting to upgrade from my g1 to the g2, if they can ever perma-root that thing!

perhaps you havent seen the shift microsoft has made since WinMo6.

No, I think he means the Kin. Another aborted attempt at a user interface...

The AC could of at least given a pointer to where the description was taken from

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/25/ortustech-unveils-worlds-smallest-full-hd-display-puts-retina/

Ahh, but that article clearly says: "However, it still pales in comparison to that little 546ppi panel Casio announced back in 2008 which we still haven't seen put into a consumer product." - which would have dunked the gratuitous Apple Bashing. Oddly enough, the original submission contains a link to this article, which also contains the infamous "infamous Retina display", and claims it was posted half an hour before the Engadget article - but doesn't come with the "Ever heard of Ortustech?" entry the submission comes with.

The AC could of at least given a pointer to where the description was taken from

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/25/ortustech-unveils-worlds-smallest-full-hd-display-puts-retina/

Seriously, any posting on Nokia/Symbian/MeeGo will have the inevidable person calling Nokia to adopt Android but this one gets the cake, claiming that "Symbian's dead, and MeeGo won't cure ailing Nokia". Nokia's recent press release (Engadet coverage) claims the exact opposite, e.g. that Symbian and MeeGo are gaining unified development environments via Qt and Symbian is now a consolidated effort, unifying the seperate Symbian ^x releases into a constantly evolving release model (which means that older phone models will get constant feature improvements instead of just bug fixes). Nokia had a good Q3 and last I checked, they still held the majority of the mobile phone market. Talk about missing the point.

Why are we giving these people creedence again? Oh yeah, he writes for InfoWorld, that must mean he's on to something.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

The thing to keep in mind, is you still need a form of energy to compress the air. Usually we're talking electricity. Granted, this tech + a huge power plant is probably still more efficient and green.

IMHO though, the real ticket would be if they combined this with a solar-powered compressor that could run while the car was sitting out in the parking lot for 8 hours, and in the driveway for another 3 or 4 (plug-in ability is for a back up). For the daily commute and around-town trips for the average person, I bet this would be plenty usable.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

so the networks' move doesn't matter at all. Linky.

The "It takes $1 billion and 5 years to launch a new vehicle" is simply bullshit. It make take that long if you do it the way Detroit does it, but history has shown that Detroit is doing it wrong! Modern businesses are no longer the huge vertically integrated monopolies of the early industrial age; it is now possible to buy everything from out of house. "Wrong kind of engineers" is also bullshit -- create a demand for automotive engineers and Stanford and Berkly will train them! Granted, there is a 4-year lag, but the reason there is a Silicon Valley in the first place is because the world-class universities in the area created a pool of world-class engineers. Again, having engineers that are trained to do things "the GM way" is a disadvantage, not an advantage.

Spoken like a true armchair CEO. Just so you know, the auto industry is already one of the most horizontally stratified industries out there. If you think they're vertically integrated, you're entirely wrong. Why do you think every auto maker nearly had a heart attack when GM/Chrysler were in dire straights. They all used the same suppliers. If one major supplier collapsed, the entire industry would take a hit. Don't believe me? Do some research.

Tesla is trying to change that. They're trying a more vertically integrated strategy. But everyone in the auto industry that actually understands how things work is laughing at them. Remember when they took hundreds of millions in government loans? Don't expect to ever see that back.

Oh, and you say that engineers will come... well Tesla tried that too. HQ based in California and tried to do R&D there. Only they realized the talent wasn't around... so they moved everything to Detroit.

Everyone thinks they know how to run an industry. Until you're actually put in charge or look into the details does one actually realize the difficulty of the task.

Intel's netbook definition would exclude the 11.6 Air on the basis of size and sufficient CPU power for multitasking and HD video. The flash storage is certainly netbookish, but 64 gigs used to be a big hard drive.

I've had an 11.6-inch Acer for about a year now, running Ubuntu. I love it. Small enough to take, big enough to use. But I don't know what to call it except "perfect size." Nice for Apple that they are finally catching up. Too bad it costs two and a half times what I paid.

Galaxy S GPS-Gate: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/17/samsung-galaxy-s-gps-gate-two-problems-not-one-and-what-to-do/

Wikipedia entry(under Issues): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_i9000_Galaxy_S

YouTube(dozens, if not hundreds of videos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmIx6SR9lXo

The EPIC issue: http://www.gadgetvenue.com/galaxy-gps-problems-fixed-samsung-epic-4g-08190515/

I could paste links till my 6gb ram is full but just google "Galaxy S GPS problems"

Oh yes, plenty of "A fix in september" rumors" but the originator was from a samsung forum post on Samsung India website. No official statement to date.

If it's this one it has 5 platters. WD has 4 of the 750GB platters that proved reliable in the WD20EARS-00M* disks. I have one of those and so far I'm happy with it (only that it's already chock-full, as always). WD announced the 3TB disk in an external case two weeks ago and it's already selling for $200 so the internal version will likely get cheaper very soon.

If it's this one it has 5 platters. WD has 4 of the 750GB platters that proved reliable in the WD20EARS-00M* disks. I have one of those and so far I'm happy with it (only that it's already chock-full, as always). WD announced the 3TB disk in an external case two weeks ago and it's already selling for $200 so the internal version will likely get cheaper very soon.

Ah I spoke too soon. Here's a pie chart:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/visualized-tweetdeck-beta-usage-chart-beautifully-showcases-and/

This innovation is due to legal rather than technological reasons. I'm happy Netflix found a workaround to get service to me earlier than this. http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/xbox-officially-the-only-console-able-to-stream-netflix-sorry/

Engadget is reporting that the disks will stop working after 31 days, however it's not clear if that's all disks or just those that downloaded the update.

Anyone know for sure for those of us that are holding out for OtherOS?

See iPad vs noname PC.

Brick-and-mortar stores carry only name PCs, not noname PCs. The advantage of a product sold in a brick-and-mortar store is that customers get to try the screen and input (keyboard or touch screen) before buying the product. You don't want something like the zenPad 4, which requires excess pressure to register a touch. In addition, appliances are far lighter in weight than netbooks; iPad is 1.5 lb while Dell Mini 10 is 3 lb.

Or unsubsidized smartphone vs noname PC.

Again, size and weight.

so that sub $300 sticker is what an actual appliance has to beat.

A Roku box or an Xbox 360 game console handily beats a home theater PC in price. And given how many PC games require a LAN or online as opposed to 4 gamepads and a TV monitor, compare the price of one Xbox 360 and three extra gamepads or one Wii and three extra remotes to four PCs and three extra monitors.

With mechanical drives I've yet to have one "just die" as I ALWAYS got warnings something was going via drive noise, heat, random small errors, etc. And now SMART just makes that even easier to spot.

Google found differently in their massive hard drive survey... sometimes drives would just up and die with no SMART warnings. Also the most common SSD failure-case is lack of writes, at least you can retrieve data off the drive as opposed to a completely opaque device if the platter is frozen.

Yeah, I've seen quite the opposite. Let me preface this with saying that I'm strictly talking about consumer and midrange drives, I've seen very few SCSI and SAS drives die without warning.

In the past 10 years, in a company with about 200 nodes, I can literally count on one hand the amount of hard drives that have given any SMART warnings leading up to their imminent failure. They pretty much always die while the OS accumulates log entries of bad blocks and I/O errors. Most of the time it was either death by shock, or death by manufacturer defect (Maxtor!). The former, SSD drives are pretty much immune to BTW. I would prefer an SSD in a road warrior or college student's laptop any day over a conventional HDD.

I don't know about you, but I haven't seen SSDs battle tested enough for me to truly trust the things yet. With mechanical drives I've yet to have one "just die" as I ALWAYS got warnings something was going via drive noise, heat, random small errors, etc. And now SMART just makes that even easier to spot.

Google found differently in their massive hard drive survey... sometimes drives would just up and die with no SMART warnings. Also the most common SSD failure-case is lack of writes, at least you can retrieve data off the drive as opposed to a completely opaque device if the platter is frozen.

I would run one in a heartbeat - especially since I now live in a city where Comcast has deployed Motorola rather than Scientific Atlanta. (on Scientific Atlanta the ESATA ports are enabled, and on Motorola they are disabled). I like having the ability to keep an entire season of certain shows on the PVR/DVR to re-watch at my leisure.

However, there is a problem; most CableCard-capable PVRs available on the market, at least last time I looked into them, did not support OpenCable Host Device services, so watching On Demand content isn't (or wasn't) possible. Also, aside from client apps on a PC or Mac, management of viewing, recording, and deleting content on a Tivo requires about 3x as many clicks as does the cable company's PVR. The Tivo still doesn't(?) support OCAP:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/dnptivo-premiere-and-premiere-xl-usher-in-a-brand-new-interface/

Both models will do up to 1080p output and have single multistream CableCARD slots and eSATA jacks for storage expansion; the $299 Premiere will do 45 hours of HD recording on the 320GB internal drive, while the $499 XL will do 150 on 1TB and adds in THX certification. The bad news? There's still no support for tru2way, so you still won't have access to your cable company's video on demand service -- although one of the screenshots has a Comcast logo on it, so we're intrigued.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/11/nielsen-survey-shows-high-interest-in-3dtv-low-interest-in-payi/

A pretty awesome graph that shows that you pretty much have to sell this site unseen.

Before trying 3d tv, they surveyed 25% very likely to buy. 13% Not likely at all.

After actually seeing 3DTV in action that flipped in the other direction with 12% very likely, and 30% not likely at all.

You could get some better economies of scale with larger reactors than we build now but it's hard to transmit and distribute electricity from anything much larger then what we build now.

1. The Big Potential of Micro Nukes.
2. Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes.
3. Toshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage?
4. Micro-nuclear plants for local power
5. Bill Gates and Toshiba teaming up to build small, 100-year nuke plant?
6. Scaling nuclear power for villages, apartment buildings, shopping malls, factories, and ships

You were saying what again?

Falcon

Your wish has been granted: OS X 10.7 Lion will be announced on October 20th!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-to-hold-media-event-october-20th-well-be-there-live/

So, perhaps this is user error - for not putting an adequate case on 'em.

The problem is Apple recently removed full cover cases for the iphone 4 as apple engineers recently discovered if dirt or grit gets stuck between the protective case and the back of the phone the glass on the back has an increased probability of cracking. So with antenna-gate just starting to cool we now have case-gate were it doesn't matter how you hold the iphone 4 it breaks. You would think Apple would use gorilla glass like many brands including dell with do with their recent full screen mobile handsets. Well I am sorry to inform you Apple just used generic hardened glass on the back and the front to save a few bucks having to pay Dow Corning a license fee.

They have already worked (and continue to work) together in bringing Remote Play to some phones, so I don't think it would be impossible.