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The nicest device I can see at present is the Nokia N810 which runs the Maemo (linux) OS.

High resolution touch screen (800*480), hardware keyboard, gps and customisable - ~$450

This looks dreamy (and its on my xmas list)

you'll notice that demand never drops BELOW a certain point. This is the amount of "base load" power that must be constantly generated, 24/7. Think of it as "inflexible demand."

It was probably defeated by a "Bic Pen" not a paperclip. Most of the Pseudo-secure technology stuff I've seen uses the cylindrical lock/key setup. Cheaper ones are very easy to defeat ueing the proper size of ball point pen with the end ripped out. Just 'Jam and Turn'. An article with link to video - http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/14/kryptonite-evolution-2000-u-lock-hacked-by-a-bic-pen/ .

As noted above, no ad-whoring hardware news site owns the internet. I happened to hear of this on Engadget. Considering the site you linked just posted the story this morning, I doubt the submitter actually saw it there first.

There IS an MP5 player, you know...

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/30/comcast-ceo-sees-160mbps-internet-in-2008/

See also LightReading:

Comcast Closes In on 100 Mbit/s

Comcast may not be the fastest today, but they don't appear to be sitting around doing nothing either.

.../Ed

It depends on how big microSD gets. Apparently, 8GB cards are on the way:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/samsung-develops-8gb-microsd-card/

which is somewhere past 700 GB(and 2 GB cards are actually available). It's all just making the point, which has surely been made, that you can already fit quite a lot of flash into a reasonable volume. Part of the reason I used a memory stick is that it accounts for some volume being taken up wiring stuff together so that it actually works.

There is a report on engadget that ASUS has uploaded some source code for the Asus_ACPI module.

Now that I think of it, that is an interesting point of view..

Justice Brennan said in the case Furman v. Georgia (1972) about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment":

        * The "essential predicate" is "that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity,"
        * "A severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion."
        * "A severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society."
        * "A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary."

One could argue that the punishment is completely arbitrary. Case in point here. Record exec's son given a pass on infringement. Handing down these punishments seem indicative as a detractor due to falling quarterly earnings. They also intentionally go after poor and sick people as they are more likely to 'pony up' more than well to do people. I guess cancer-ridden English-illiterate Mexican immigrants are a prime target...

And I wonder if the 750$ MINIMUM per song could be shown to be "clearly and totally rejected throughout society" could be proved? Perhaps a Zogby poll could be arranged, but phrasing the questions for fairness are extremely hard. The big question: How many people support these large mandatory amounts?

I'm not surprised at all that scientists found the iPod Nano dangerous, especially after this incident.

No mention in TFA of this. Could this be the breakthrough?

I think the problem is that there just aren't enough people getting Zune tattoos:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/what-kind-of-man-gets-three-zune-tattoos/

(As an aside: he's also changing his name to "Microsoft Zune"

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/zune-guy-changing-name-to-microsoft-zune/)

I think the problem is that there just aren't enough people getting Zune tattoos:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/what-kind-of-man-gets-three-zune-tattoos/

(As an aside: he's also changing his name to "Microsoft Zune"

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/zune-guy-changing-name-to-microsoft-zune/)

"Is it just me, or is there something a bit weird about naming a product for reading books with a word which means "to set on fire"? Now, maybe as a name for an Apple product..."

Fixed that for you.

iKindle. Burn different.

This shouldn't be modded troll.

For only a little more than the $400, you can get a much more capable and less DRM'd Nokia N810 .

Why Worry about a brick? Pandoras Battery Solves it all!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/pandoras-battery-hack-promises-to-unbrick-all-bricked-psps/

What about just bringing this number to the US?

All of the above, or just use DSL from a USB key. That way when the cops come, nobody will be the wiser as it will be very easy to get rid of/erase/whatever.

They are now so small that they can be anything. You have a lot of lying around? Just dropt it in there and nobody will be the siser.

You can desguise them as almost anything.

And how easy is it to 'loose' this one

And there are many more things where you would not know that they are USB drives.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/

if this is really it, its dead before it gets out of bed.

However the Hanlin V9 with a bigger screen, better looks and a more reasonable price could be what lets the market take off. The Sony is close. It just needs to be a bit bigger screen and a bit less expensive (and drop all the non-book functions), and it could be a real goer. But this thing...!

From 2 months ago (Engadget):
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/

$399 is too much for something that's bigger than a PDA or smartphone and does less, doesn't take standard AA batteries, displays in two-bit greyscale, can't be left in a car on a sunny day, has a headhone jack and cellular CDMA capability but can't make a phone call, can't scribble in the margins or highlight.

Cross an iPhone and a OLPC laptop together, and you'd get a better ebook.

They're probably afraid the hideous fugliness of the thing will make potential ad-clickers run
Some (alledged) pics here:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/

First google result for "CF-to-SATA": http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/26/the-cf-to-sata-hard-drive-adapter/. Here's where you can buy it, it's about $32.

OK, I rephrase so that the average intellect may get a grip.

A picture of the device can be found here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/10/new-helmet-allows-fighter-pilots-to-peer-through-the-jet/

The link given in the summary is slashdotted, which means that there are too many hits for the server to cope with. A server, in this context ... WTF

CC.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/10/new-helmet-allows-fighter-pilots-to-peer-through-the-jet/

engadget, CA - 23 hours ago
No, the headgear in the photo above wasn't some unused prototype created for The Terminator; rather, it's a snazzy new helmet designed to give fighter ...

CC.

Guess google might have another hit. This article is where Dvorak said apple should drop the iphone.

I remember the days when /. submissions had summaries actually written by the submitter.

Well, it's kind of a matter of semantics, but some people are of the opinion that the iPhone isn't really a "smartphone", because you can't add 3rd-party apps or it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard or no "enterprise" email connectivity, etc:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/08/smartphones_q/

However, Blackberries are pretty darn popular from what I can tell. I think Treos would be popular too if they weren't so crash-prone.

And if you only do it once in a blue moon or don't have access to 'proper' equipment you can make a true DIY reflow air gun for about $20. I used it to reflow the solder on a Sony POS laptop sodimm socket; it's just barely 'good enough', especially if you are away from your normal workbench, but it works. http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/07/how-to-make-a-surface-mount-soldering-iron/

The big fear that I have with HD-DVD is that Toshiba announced over 2 years ago a triple-layer HD-DVD disc to compete with Blu-Ray's higher capacity. Aren't most of today's players only capable of playing dual-layer HD-DVDs? Are all of today's HD-DVD players heading for the scrap heap?

But then again, with the $99 HD-DVD specials, this is more of an environmental concern, not a financial one...

It does make a cheap lojack solution I hear. http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/seti-home-claims-its-first-major-discovery-a-stolen-laptop/

I don't think that anyone's claiming that Apple is using some new voodoo or advanced technique to make Time Machine work. It's just that they are the first to make everything work together in such a useful way for the average computer user.

Vista has just the same ( http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/leopard-vs-vista-feature-chart-showdown/ ). Even ancient Windows 2000 has a backup that allows you to restore an individual file.

Also, "Time Machine" has limitations, in that it requires a second hard disk.

Just because you prefer Time Machine doesn't mean that it is better for everyone - and in certainly doesn't mean it was first! (This seems to be a common trend with the Mac - users think "It was the first for me" and therefore conclude it was the first for everyone.)

What about this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/rfid-implants-linked-to-cancer-in-lab-tests/
and this:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2848

Sure there are lots of radiation going around our bodies. But the signal strengths are very dissimilar, because of the distances involved with the emitters. When one of these emitters is in our skin or inside us, that distance becomes zero or almost zero. Only one cancer cell is needed to start the disease.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/rfid-implants-linked-to-cancer-in-lab-tests/

There, for you.

Though they're specials, both Wal Mart and Best Buy are offering HD DVD players for $100.

Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/toshiba-hd-a2-hd-dvd-player-100-this-friday-wal-mart/

Best Buy offers Toshiba HD-A2 for $100

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/best-buy-offers-the-toshiba-hd-a2-for-100-too-and-other-hd-dv/

Though they're specials, both Wal Mart and Best Buy are offering HD DVD players for $100.

Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/toshiba-hd-a2-hd-dvd-player-100-this-friday-wal-mart/

Best Buy offers Toshiba HD-A2 for $100

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/best-buy-offers-the-toshiba-hd-a2-for-100-too-and-other-hd-dv/

It's common knowledge that Target was paid by Sony to only stock BD players in stores this Christmas and to have an endcap dedicated to BD. http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/target-to-only-sell-blu-ray-players-in-stores/

this sounds familiar
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/22/hackers-project-sends-media-filled-hard-drives-to-troops/

Here is a chart comparing features of Leopard vs Vista...

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/leopard-vs-vista-feature-chart-showdown/

More to the point, Supercomputers are not called "Supercomputers" because they are simply faster than other machines. Supercomputers are large-scale vector machines designed for number-crunching capacity. They're great at scientific modeling and simulation, but aren't exactly something all that useful to the average person. (Unless you somehow think that the Cell in the PS3 was the smartest idea ever.)

Also, like most things in computing, "Supercomputer" is a moving target. Today's supercomputers tend to be large clusters of inexpensive machines running OSes like Linux, Mac OS X, or Solaris. (Windows supercomputing clusters probably exist as well, but I doubt that many organizations are willing to pay the software licensing fees.) So unless we can have a 500 processor distributed computing cluster in a Palmtop in 10 to 15 years, I seriously doubt we'll have "a handheld supercomputer". And if you want to go by the supercomputers of yesteryear, technically we already have that power in our handhelds. e.g. An iPhone's SIMD-equipped 625 MHz ARM processor could probably hold its own in vector calcs against some of the earlier supercomputer installations.

Sooo.... I call sensationalist headlines. Do I win a prize?

I wonder why didn't that guy use a real camera. Horrible pics.

Few nit-picks about this machine:
- a lot of real-estate wasted to the sides of the screen. Couldn't they put there thumb-pointers like those in the VAIO UX50? or at some cursor buttons? For reference: http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/unboxing-the-sony-vaio-ux50/
- a second, fanless, merom-based generation is already coming in April. If they keep the same price I'm in. http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070904PD215.html

Going down to 7W from 11W looks pretty big to me.

At WWDC 2006, he mentioned that a few big features of Leopard were still under wraps to avoid being ripped off by Microsoft, or (more likely) because they weren't complete, and wouldn't be announced until the product ships...

My guess at this point is that it was just hype, but who knows?

The HTC touch dual is a remarkable phone. Take the iPhone, turn it into a slider so that it has a real keyboard, subtract Apple's single-provider lockdown garbage (along with their updates that "unintentionally render the device useless"), and you have one of the best upcoming phones out there.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/htcs-3g-touch-dual-slider-with-hsdpa-arrives-in-europe/

The problem with this specific phone is that the European version = no WiFi, but the Japanese version has WiFi.

I'd love to have this phone unlocked and use it on my carrier's network. It's funny that this phone has been out for quite some time now, but to see that Sprint is just now getting the original (non-slider) version of the Touch.

Actually, it's not funny. It's disappointing that it takes this long for the technology to filter over here. It's also disappointing to see WiFi filtered off the device before hit hits Eurpoe (and most likely the US when it makes it's way over here).

Call it sour grapes if you want, but I'm not really clamoring over a hip-hop, breakdancing, mp3-playing egg.
Although I'll gladly pay to import whatever drugs the Sony execs were taking when they gave this thing the green light.

There appears to be at least one company who disagree with you on the password thing. http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/30/subrosasofts-maclockpick-extracts-personal-info-from-os-x/

Actually most locks can be picked just by bumping them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr23tpWX8lM
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/bump-keying-1-keys-open-any-lock/

Then of course, most doors can be forced in seconds by a shove.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/01/bridgestones-super-thin-qr-lpd-e-paper/ Seems pretty damned flexible to me?

Mac Mini to Media Center Instructions

Some people have had biocompatible magnets implanted in their fingertips. The magnet responds to electric fields, and you can 'feel' them as the magnet wiggles against nerves that sense pressure.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/05/magnetic-implant-gives-body-modder-a-sixth-sense/