I'm speculating here, but think about ruggedness and costs of manufacturing associated with a moving keyboard.
Manufacturing:
Testing a moving part
Competing with thinner phones (keyboards add thickness)
Layout of phone given the need for a hinge, PCB, battery in the package
Relatively unique design; I imagine the assembly line for slate phones are very simlar
Finding a supplier for the keyboard
Ruggedness:
Phones are quite water resistant now, a hinge gives more opportunities for leaks
Moving parts break
Individual keys break
I think the only hope is for a nerd targeted phone, as people who need to type commands with weird symbols really benefit the most from a physical keyboard. But I am not holding my breath, and a bluetooth keyboard can cover the instances where I need to type in that fashion.
I admit that when I saw his design the first thought was backpacking only. Imagine washing something burnt off the bottom of that; I would only want to boil water in it.
The issue with this pot in backpacking is that it looks heavier, and people get crazy when it comes to losing a couple grams. I imagine that you will save fuel in the long run but you also will have trouble storing stuff in your pot (my 1L pot is the perfect diameter for butane canisters to slide in).
Props for the invention, and honestly if you want to make something expensive and marginally better than the rest of the products on the market backpackers are a decent choice.
It is a density issue. Hydrogen is difficult to transport and store. One solution would be to truck ammonia to the service station, where you can dump it into below ground storage and generate/compress H2 on demand. The other option would be to perform the H2 generation onboard of the car, but the issues of the toxicity of ammonia would still require fancy fuel tanks so I think the local generation model would be superior.
No, but I don't know of any Chinese companies producing steppers or any other of the multi-million dollar tools required to fab a processor. You may be able to get away with used equipment but then you are giving yourself a handicap and won't get any support from the parent companies.
I doubt that a fab could even be built as Russia is on a couple technology transfer lists. When they state Russian made I imagine it will actually be sent to TSMC or other foundry with design in Russia
You still control it, yet it is remote and will be properly searched when you die. You can put a usb key in or some paper documents with the relevant information.
Thank you for posting this, it is almost exactly what I've been looking for. I wish there was a discount version without the radio/solar for urban backpacking, and a colour eink would really help with maps, but I'm thrilled to see demand for a traveler's eink device.
It isn't that far off. An eink reader designed for travel, with lonely planet or wikisherpa included. It is also one of the few proper applications of a colour eink screen, as maps do not need to be vibrant but colours are vital to a map.
I could go on, but I know this is a fantasy. I hope one day a colour eink android or linux tablet arrives so I can install applications similar to this use case, but I am not holding my breath.
Convergent evolution also depends on how you define two features similar. For example, the convergent evolution of oxygen carrying blood in Cephalopods could be a counter example to the prediction argument, as their blood has oxygen bind to copper.
So both bloods were evolved to perform the same task of moving oxygen, however they use two different mechanisms to perform the task.
Just let these innovations arise in other countries if the USA has such a backwards infrastructure. Even credit cards are more secure in other countries (chip and pin may be flawed, but it is still better than the magnetic strip and signature of the USA).
It is easy to claim that Android can be used on these types of devices, however these devices will have little memory to keep price down. If you could load Android 4.x onto the original HTC Dream then by all means bring on the low end phones.
Still waiting to see how FirefoxOS compares, as they are going after the low end market but I know that Firefox on Android is not the best with limited memory (I believe that Opera Mobile takes that title, so naturally it is discontinued).
I used to think that reliability was also a reason for the non-removable battery, however the new Samsung S5 claims to be certified for dust resistance and water to 1m.
For the daylight readable screen I've never seen any phone with one (or ebook reader or tablet for that matter), so I suspect there is just a lack of technology. We've seen prototypes and demos, but there may just not be high volume manufacturing in place for these screens.
Have you investigated the virtual network operators? Cricket was just bought by ATT and will remain relatively independent, but borrow their towers.
But yes, I agree, whenever a new phone comes out that looks exciting I think how it does not help me, although the Samsung S5 is coming to Virgin Mobile so I may move to that depending on price.
Keep in mind that teardowns of the S5 put the manufacturing cost ~256USD. While this does not take into account a lot of costs like design, if the OnePlus One is selling at zero profit to gain market share they could with similar specs to the S5.
When the Leaf first was introduced, people in the electric vehicle industry were floored that the Leaf relied on air cooling for the batteries, and at that it is passively cooled. I cannot imagine continuing this with a larger pack; while the load per cell goes down, if you are trying to make a denser pack you will need to include liquid cooling to pull heat out. Liquid cooling is more expensive than air cooling to develop/produce, so it will be interesting to see what Nissan comes up with in the final implementation.
Probably not a major factor to the whole study, but there are two issues for detecting the game being played by time played:
1. The time played started being recorded a couple years ago. Games played before that default to zero. For example, I put on probably hundreds of hours of Counter Strike 1.6 in High School, but it is listed as unplayed in my Steam profile
2. I didn't see how they handled game expansions, which are often listed as separate games, but they are unplayed. For Borderlands, I have four additional "games" with no playtime
The easiest way to switch off of Windows would probably to move to Google Docs. Still costs money (I don't know what business accounts cost), but you can keep employees on Windows in the nearterm and transition only from Office to Docs, then introduce Linux relatively painlessly.
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Manufacturing:
Ruggedness:
I think the only hope is for a nerd targeted phone, as people who need to type commands with weird symbols really benefit the most from a physical keyboard. But I am not holding my breath, and a bluetooth keyboard can cover the instances where I need to type in that fashion.
I admit that when I saw his design the first thought was backpacking only. Imagine washing something burnt off the bottom of that; I would only want to boil water in it.
The issue with this pot in backpacking is that it looks heavier, and people get crazy when it comes to losing a couple grams. I imagine that you will save fuel in the long run but you also will have trouble storing stuff in your pot (my 1L pot is the perfect diameter for butane canisters to slide in).
Props for the invention, and honestly if you want to make something expensive and marginally better than the rest of the products on the market backpackers are a decent choice.
It is a density issue. Hydrogen is difficult to transport and store. One solution would be to truck ammonia to the service station, where you can dump it into below ground storage and generate/compress H2 on demand. The other option would be to perform the H2 generation onboard of the car, but the issues of the toxicity of ammonia would still require fancy fuel tanks so I think the local generation model would be superior.
No, but I don't know of any Chinese companies producing steppers or any other of the multi-million dollar tools required to fab a processor. You may be able to get away with used equipment but then you are giving yourself a handicap and won't get any support from the parent companies.
I doubt that a fab could even be built as Russia is on a couple technology transfer lists. When they state Russian made I imagine it will actually be sent to TSMC or other foundry with design in Russia
You still control it, yet it is remote and will be properly searched when you die. You can put a usb key in or some paper documents with the relevant information.
If KSP has taught me anything, it is that computer controlled rockets (MechJeb) can land vertically very reliably.
I'm still waiting for this to be mainstream
http://www.bose.com/controller...
Thank you for posting this, it is almost exactly what I've been looking for. I wish there was a discount version without the radio/solar for urban backpacking, and a colour eink would really help with maps, but I'm thrilled to see demand for a traveler's eink device.
It isn't that far off. An eink reader designed for travel, with lonely planet or wikisherpa included. It is also one of the few proper applications of a colour eink screen, as maps do not need to be vibrant but colours are vital to a map.
I could go on, but I know this is a fantasy. I hope one day a colour eink android or linux tablet arrives so I can install applications similar to this use case, but I am not holding my breath.
Convergent evolution also depends on how you define two features similar. For example, the convergent evolution of oxygen carrying blood in Cephalopods could be a counter example to the prediction argument, as their blood has oxygen bind to copper.
So both bloods were evolved to perform the same task of moving oxygen, however they use two different mechanisms to perform the task.
Hydrogen vehicles these days are series hybrids with a PEM fuel cell and Li battery pack. Think of a Volt but fuel cell instead of ICE.
Just let these innovations arise in other countries if the USA has such a backwards infrastructure. Even credit cards are more secure in other countries (chip and pin may be flawed, but it is still better than the magnetic strip and signature of the USA).
It is easy to claim that Android can be used on these types of devices, however these devices will have little memory to keep price down. If you could load Android 4.x onto the original HTC Dream then by all means bring on the low end phones.
Still waiting to see how FirefoxOS compares, as they are going after the low end market but I know that Firefox on Android is not the best with limited memory (I believe that Opera Mobile takes that title, so naturally it is discontinued).
I just don't get this bridge thing... I know cars drive on them but how does that relate to anything!?
I used to think that reliability was also a reason for the non-removable battery, however the new Samsung S5 claims to be certified for dust resistance and water to 1m.
For the daylight readable screen I've never seen any phone with one (or ebook reader or tablet for that matter), so I suspect there is just a lack of technology. We've seen prototypes and demos, but there may just not be high volume manufacturing in place for these screens.
Tether my laptop
Have you investigated the virtual network operators? Cricket was just bought by ATT and will remain relatively independent, but borrow their towers.
But yes, I agree, whenever a new phone comes out that looks exciting I think how it does not help me, although the Samsung S5 is coming to Virgin Mobile so I may move to that depending on price.
Keep in mind that teardowns of the S5 put the manufacturing cost ~256USD. While this does not take into account a lot of costs like design, if the OnePlus One is selling at zero profit to gain market share they could with similar specs to the S5.
http://www.gadgetcluster.com/2014/04/it-takes-only-256-for-samsung-to-produce-a-galaxy-s5-handset/
When the Leaf first was introduced, people in the electric vehicle industry were floored that the Leaf relied on air cooling for the batteries, and at that it is passively cooled. I cannot imagine continuing this with a larger pack; while the load per cell goes down, if you are trying to make a denser pack you will need to include liquid cooling to pull heat out. Liquid cooling is more expensive than air cooling to develop/produce, so it will be interesting to see what Nissan comes up with in the final implementation.
Easy enough to leaf through, colorful enough to justify printing. I keep one in the map pocket of my car for waiting at airports.
I thought HL2 ep2 was awesome, and ep1 was fun also, I'd suggest checking them out (only 20 hours if you milk them) if you enjoyed HL2
Probably not a major factor to the whole study, but there are two issues for detecting the game being played by time played:
1. The time played started being recorded a couple years ago. Games played before that default to zero. For example, I put on probably hundreds of hours of Counter Strike 1.6 in High School, but it is listed as unplayed in my Steam profile
2. I didn't see how they handled game expansions, which are often listed as separate games, but they are unplayed. For Borderlands, I have four additional "games" with no playtime
With Intel fabs in Oregon (slowest state by far) and Arizona (one of the faster states), you feel the difference when traveling for work.
The easiest way to switch off of Windows would probably to move to Google Docs. Still costs money (I don't know what business accounts cost), but you can keep employees on Windows in the nearterm and transition only from Office to Docs, then introduce Linux relatively painlessly.