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Nissan 360: the X-by-Wire EA2 concept {Autoblog}
Apr 30th 2008 11:18AM I've always thought we'd head in this direction eventually, but the one thing I've wondered is what it would feel like to drive a car where there's no direct feedback from the steering wheel. They could obviously add force feedback, like in video games, but that's added complexity and sure to be an expensive replacement part. Anyway, just curious what you all thought. I've asked this of some other companies which have worked on similar technology, but never gotten an answer.
Video proof of the renegade satellite's destruction {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 9:54AM It's not as simple as just swapping out the camera behind the lens, or even swapping out the sensor. It's not as though they shot with an off the shelf camcorder and should have swapped it with a better off the shelf camcorder. I have no first hand knowledge, but I would guess that the sensor used in military grade extremely long range cameras is a unique beast completely different from what you'd find in a consumer or pro level video camera. And simply adding pixels doesn't always work.
As an example look at the transition from sd camcorders to hd camcorders. When given the same sensor size, say 1/4" and cramming more pixels onto the sensor, less light actually hits each pixel. Which is one of the reasons(as I understand it) that HD low light performance is lagging behind SD currently. I would imagine that designing a camera made to film moving objects in low light conditions hundreds of miles away while the camera itself is moving at great speeds probably involves some tradeoffs.
Video proof of the renegade satellite's destruction {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 9:18AM So your Sony camcorder can shoot high speed images of an object moving 5,000 miles an hour crashing into something moving 17,000 miles an hour, at night from around 133 nautical miles away? Must be some camcorder. There's a lot more to this than pointing a camcorder with a big lens on it at the sky. At least one of the videos was shot from 26,000 ft, apparently from an aircraft, which given the velocities of everything involved, the fact that they were able to track the missile, and have zoom capable of seeing the impact is pretty impressive. Also, I would imagine that their goals are based more on getting clear, high contrast cloud free images rather than looking like some big budget film.
Poll: So, what are you HD DVD early adopters going to do? {Engadget HD}
Feb 16th 2008 1:10PM Exactly! The whole reason I got the 360 addon was for this ability. So I'll buy a bunch of discs when they get cheap and rip them all to my Myth box. To be honest it was the whole reason I hoped hd-dvd beat blu-ray. I just want to be able to use my media how I want. I'm sure Blu-ray will get cracked eventually. I guess in the end this'll be a good way to fill a nice HD digital media server. Heck if setup correctly I can even stream my HD-DVDs from the Myth box to my PS3.
Hands-on with NVIDIA's APX 2500, and yeah, it plays Quake {Engadget}
Feb 13th 2008 10:36AM You're kind of missing the point. Nvidia's not trying to build a mobile device, just a mobile chipset/platform. It's running Quake 3 in demo mode to show off the ability of the processor, not the suitability of the interface.
Ion Audio shows off prototype of alternate Rock Band drum set at CES {Engadget}
Jan 8th 2008 10:52PM Looks like they took a cheap midi drum kit and just converted it for rock band use. Was wondering when someone would do this. Would only take a midi to (Rock Band) USB converter. As for which piece to hit when you could just make it configurable. i.e. midi keys 2 and 5 go to red, etc. Be interesting to see if they get enough interest to build it.
2007 Holiday Sweepstakes Day 5: DashDAQ Series II {Autoblog}
Dec 14th 2007 3:38PM I'll take that, thank you.
2007 Autoblog Holiday Sweepstakes Day 1: Ownersite.com subscriptions {Autoblog}
Dec 10th 2007 1:15PM This is exactly what I want.
Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart to have 260 HP engine, Evo IX's AWD {Autoblog}
Nov 24th 2007 11:15AM Seconded!
Hands-on with the retail version of the Chumby {Engadget}
Nov 14th 2007 11:26AM Seconded. We got ours a couple weeks ago. It's also black and the build quality is great. No specks of any sort.
