for the past few months i have had a couple of laptop batteries die on me. its not the spectacular fiery end that they have on the news a couple of months ago. fortunately. a couple of the battery packs are just a little over 12 months old. they shouldn’t be dying this early. so [...]
sharp came out with an lcd with embedded optical sensors. its still a bit small — half a vga screen — but it will eventually get to a size we are normally accustomed to. think about it for a moment. you will actually “look” at the person you’re having a video conference with instead of [...]
if you’re buying a new cellphone do yourself a favor and get an extra battery. use them alternately.
i got myself an original replacement battery (sony ericsson) for my two- (or maybe three-) year old phone and i’m having a hard time recharging the thing. i charge the batt until the cell says its full and [...]
i have these little preoccupations. things that i find interesting. one of them is power. not the “world domination” type. har har. i’m thinking about renewables. renewable power — solar, wind-generated and, sometimes, geothermal power — because i wonder where we will be getting the electricity to keep our tvs and computers [...]
wow. the power consumption at idle of the thing is 0.1 watt. this would be a nice replacement for my smoothwall machine.
Touted as the “world’s most power-efficient” x86-compatible CPU, the 500MHz Via Eden ULV processor debuted at an Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei this week.
