Author: tommytrc

This may not be worth the trouble.

If you do it, you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola Company.

Originally from //plasticbugs.com”>plastic bugs

Structured Solutions II (what happened to the Structured Solutions I?) is pitching some sort of human-powered snow
removal contraption called the Whovel that is supposed to make it easier and less heart-attacky to shovel snow off of
your driveway or sidewalk. Nice, but we’ll only be properly impressed once someone’s hooked one of these up to a
weatherized Segway.

[Via Core77]

Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget

Looks like Apple’s big squeeze (that’d be IBM, who makes their chips) wants to start enabling virtualization on
their processor line, which would, in turn, allow multiple simultaneous OSes to be run on a single computer. Now, don’t
get your panties in a wad; they still all have to be PowerPC compatible OSes (i.e. OSX, YellowDog Linux, etc.) but it’s
at least a little reassuring to know that Apple intends to compete with those pesky x86 chipmakers on a number of
levels in 2005. No comments yet made aboutthe dual-core stuff, though.

Originally posted by Ryan Block from Engadget

We know it’s heresy among the Apple faithful to even suggest that one might be so displeased with one’s iPod as to
throw it on the ground in disgust, but since occasionally the little bundles of joy do get dropped, Apple has applied
for a patent for a portable media player hard drive that can detect when it is falling and stop reading or writing to
the drive in order to prevent (or at least minimize) data loss or damage. Yes, IBM introduced something similar last
year (and how non-catchy were they when they tried to compare it to an airbag for hard drives?), but Apple’s
patent filing actually predates that by a few months.

[Thanks, Tyler]

Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget

No one can seem to explain exactly how it happened, but if you recall earlier this year a Scottish man was
”attacked” by a Dyson hose; apparently now it’s all come
to a close: the man’s settled for what we’d call a somewhat paltry sum of £10,000 (close to $20,000). If we fell down
the stairs because of a gadget mishap (excepting the time we took a 7-foot dive after a cellphone to cushion the
impact) we’d probably expect a something a little more in the range of seven figures. Are we right? Are we right? But
seriously, who could be mad at Mr. Dyson? He’s
practically the patron-saint of vacuum cleaners.

Originally posted by Ryan Block from Engadget