Oh, DARPA. Everything you touch turns to semi-gold. Really, though — DARPA is great because they throw money at practically every cool new technology and even if it doesn’t turn into a neat gun, the residual advances from studying it often yield other interesting technologies. These daysthey’re looking into terahertz waves, those knicker-viewers the Brits […]

Oh, DARPA. Everything you touch turns to semi-gold. Really, though — DARPA is great because they throw money at practically every cool new technology and even if it doesn’t turn into a neat gun, the residual advances from studying it often yield other interesting technologies. These daysthey’re looking into terahertz waves, those knicker-viewers the Brits were into a few months back.

In this case, I’m sure that while DARPA will be looking for a way to make a gun like the Farsight or the railgun from Eraser, they’ll more likely just make a better version of what we’ve already got, which isn’t much, “due to a lack of effective means to generate, detect, process, and radiate” the signal. Sounds like we’ve got a long way to go, but any funding directed towards advancing the say of X-Ray Specs is money well spent in this blogger’s thought.

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I don’t think this article could have featured a more ridiculous bit of research. I love how incredibly precise they are (14% of kids’ CDs are copyrighted, mp3 players hold 1,770 songs) when they must know their research is absolutely inaccurate. It’s far more likely that a person’s library of music is entirely pirated, or […]

I don’t think this article could have featured a more ridiculous bit of research. I love how incredibly precise they’re (14% of kids’ CDs are copyrighted, mp3 players hold 1,770 songs) when they have to know their research is completely inaccurate. It’s far more likely that a person’s library of music is entirely pirated, or else entirely legal. These official-sounding statistics are pretty meaningless.

Of course, the fact that their star witness is the CEO of the British Music Rights group advocates that this article is somewhat less than completely objective. In fact, I wouldn’t hesitate to state it was purchased lock, stock and barrel by some music execs trying to push bad stats supporting their position into a popular newspaper. So nothing new there.

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Oh, that’s unfortunate. I’ve been eyeing this device since it was announced and have always thought the keyboard looked phenomenal. BGR is reporting, however, that the keyboard on the XPERIA X1 device is a “major flaw” – that’d definitely be a deal-breaker for more than a few people, myself included. Not to state that this keyboard […]

Oh, that’s unfortunate. I’ve been eyeing this device since it was announced and have always thought the keyboard looked phenomenal. BGR is reporting, however, that the keyboard on the XPERIA X1 device is a “major flaw” – that’d definitely be a deal-breaker for more than a few people, myself included.

Not to say that this keyboard is absolutely terrible, but it’s one of the worst. Think Sony UX personal, for those of you that have one or have used one. The sliding mechanism comes right on top of the keys, and thus, the keys don’t travel a lot when pressed. They give little to no feedback despite having a cool triangular design.

Aside from the keyboard, everything else appears to be pretty delightful. The 800�480 screen would make surfing the internet and watching movies on this thing much more palatable. The device that BGR got ahold of is only a pre-production unit, so “the software runs a little slow,” but the XPERIA still seems to perform admirably and should only improve with the final version. I don’t suppose that Sony-Ericsson is going to revamp the keyboard before the rumored September launch, though.

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