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MS developer talks tech, Natal 'correctly positions your hand even if it's held behind your back' {Engadget}

Jan 8th 2010 1:42PM @glamajamma

"This camera system will be the glitchiest piece of crap available."

In the context of what you're arguing, isn't that the same as saying "The sun will not rise tomorrow."?

Dell divulges Mini 3 details, tablet (Mini 5?) caught running Android 1.6 (update: video!) {Engadget}

Jan 8th 2010 1:30PM @Anonymoose

It's just time to upgrade your pockets, that's all.

Samsung's 14-inch transparent OLED laptop (video) {Engadget}

Jan 8th 2010 1:26PM @Stupidscript

Right well it doesn't "need" to be a laptop, but this one is. The issue here was why it was a laptop; what you're talking about is something you would do with transparent OLED monitors, which is a different discussion. Honestly without a webcam on the back and some major breakthroughs in consumer-level AR software, this really is useless as a laptop.

Vuzix Wrap 920AR augmented reality video eyewear: can you afford to look like this? {Engadget}

Jan 8th 2010 1:19PM "which features a built-in stereoscopic camera that allows reality and computer-generated imagery to blend in front of your eyes."

As someone who is probably a little too obsessed with AR... I have to say this is kind of an understatement of its possibilities. The camera allows not just reality and computer-generated imagery to "blend", but it allows the computer to interpret reality and produce images accordingly. Imagine blending this with the kind of spatial recognition software NASA or Honda or Sony are putting into their robots; finally, I can be Robocop.

Vuzix Wrap 920AR augmented reality video eyewear: can you afford to look like this? {Engadget}

Jan 8th 2010 1:12PM @Soriak

I don't think this device relieves the user of the necessity for a "backpack" to house the computer that drives this. This is just the peripheral - it would be up to other manufacturers to develop more reasonable platforms to do all the processing and jank.

Engadget's recession antidote: win a 22-inch iZ3D 3D monitor! {Engadget}

Feb 19th 2009 3:53PM Step 1. Give me 3d Monitor
Step 2. ?
Step 3. Record-breaking global economic growth

Humanoid learns to cook breakfast, fend for himself {Engadget}

May 7th 2008 7:14PM No it was just you, and not the five other people who clearly commented on it here 5 hours before you did.

Humanoid learns to cook breakfast, fend for himself {Engadget}

May 7th 2008 7:09PM Yeah, no. There aren't any shadows that weren't from the robot itself, and also the Wiimote is clearly laying lifeless on the table at 1:09, and the only time you can see it being used is when he stops his eggbeating motion and returns to what's obviously the default position, right after the disembodied hand presses one of the bottom buttons (a or b). The Wiimote was most likely reconfigured to control operations that aren't a part of the action learning demonstration. Why don't you actually bother to investigate it objectively before you call somebody a fake?

Yowza: Toshiba's net profits plunge 95% thanks to HD DVD, flash prices {Engadget}

Apr 30th 2008 4:37PM Neoprimal is right here, we tend to think of competition as naturally providing the "best" alternative for the consumer, but in this case in the end the winner (right or wrong) was not decided based on the actual technology, but on who owned content distribution rights, something which is completely unrelated to the quality of the format or the hardware themselves. This isn't a victory for the strongest product as much as it is a victory for the most powerful, most deeply connected business. Maybe BD is better than HD-DVD, or maybe HD-DVD is better than BD. But that question is moot, because that wasn't the deciding factor in this war at all.

Yowza: Toshiba's net profits plunge 95% thanks to HD DVD, flash prices {Engadget}

Apr 30th 2008 4:30PM @ omf

The market wasn't nearly as responsible for the recession as the credit rating agencies that kept bolstering the trustworthiness of failing lenders. In this case the market wasn't "stupid" so much as it was "tricked". You can be cynical about the market all you want, but they got shafted almost as badly as the folks who got sold bad loans backed by (once again) b.s. credit ratings.

And yes, in this context the market is actually not stupid enough to not have anticipated this from Toshiba ages ago when it was clear that HD-DVD was fighting a losing battle. Anyone who still has money in Toshiba deserves their losses.