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Engadget's recession antidote: win a Joby Gorillapod Focus! {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2009 12:37PM ya, i like gorillas.
Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle to be sold at Best Buy {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2009 10:36AM 0-60? their site says 0-30 in 3.8 seconds. that's a little bit less impressive.
$12000 for a 50mph top speed and a 45 mile range at 25mph. this is really sad. even the vectrix beats it out by a little bit. sorry, but it's hard to justify this thing over a 70mpg ninja 250 that can actually go on highways.
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 11:00PM firmware 1.1, kernel 2.6.25-01845-g85d4f0d android-build@apa27 #27
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 10:46PM yup. i have a dev phone 1 with a t-mobile sim and i see paid apps in the market.
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2009 10:44PM i have a dev phone 1 with a t-mobile sim and i'm seeing paid apps in my market.
Immaculate prosthetic limb concept makes combines fun again {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2009 8:22AM all is full of love!
VUDU permanently cuts retail price of movie set-top-box in half {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2009 9:53PM this market is waiting for the ion. vudu is trying to dump inventory while they still can. proprietary set top boxes are a dying breed.
Senate approves tax break for new car shoppers {Autoblog}
Feb 4th 2009 9:01AM the numbers here are highly questionable. there are two reasons why this sounds better than it is: (1) it's probably not a big enough deduction to make many people switch over from standard to itemized deductions, (2) it'll take quite a large car loan for the yearly interest to add up to over 2% of your income (necessary in order to claim a deduction), and (3) homeowners would still do better by borrowing against their equity (lower rates and tax deductible). a 5 year loan for $10k at 7% works out to about $400 in interest per year. this would go over the 2% cutoff for people who make $20k or less. for someone making $50k, they'd need to take out a $25k loan to hit the cutoff, and that's still only $1000 worth of deduction-- far from enough to beat the standard deduction. no, unless special rules come along with this deduction, i think it's going to completely fail to help the people who could most use help buying a new car (i.e. non-homeowners who aren't buying cars out of their league).
Shelby Super Cars revises incredible claims, still incredible {Autoblog Green}
Jan 26th 2009 1:32AM i say double it because (a) it's not just about inefficiencies in the charger, it's the whole system from charging jack to wheels, and (b) the 37kWh figure i came up with is a *bare minimum* amount of charge to meet the stated specs under conservative driving conditions, whereas this is supposed to be a performance car.
thanks for the insights on high power charging. sounds like that part, at least, can be done. i guess now it's just a question of whether the batteries can do it.
Shelby Super Cars revises incredible claims, still incredible {Autoblog Green}
Jan 25th 2009 3:05PM doing the math, if it takes about 20 HP (or 14.9 kW) to maintain 60 mph and 2.5 hours to go 150 miles at that speed, then we're talking about ~37kWh of charge. to cram that through a wire at 220V in 10 minutes will require 1000 amps of current. taking into account inefficiencies and the fact that you have to actually speed up and slow down sometimes, i'd say double that number in practice, giving 2000A @ 220V for a full charge in 10 minutes.
for reference, most houses in the US have a 150-250A 220V line coming in to power the entire house.
