The Prius myth that won’t go away.

August 29, 2011

This weekend, a friend of ours commented on the environmental impact of the Toyota Prius, in which the Prius compares unfavorably to the discontinued H2. We’ve heard this claim before, but didn’t know where those claims started, nor what they were really based on other than fingering the Prius’ larger battery as the culprit. It [...]

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Compact keyboard stands for the iPad.

August 28, 2011

Talking about stands for the iPad that would work just as well regardless of iPad orientation, and regardless of whether your work surface is a tabletop or your lap, we proposed a unique design back in May: …a more convenient accessory for the iPad would be a well-designed “clip” that attaches to Apple’s bluetooth keyboard [...]

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Splashtop Remote lets us run OS X on our iPad.

August 22, 2011

Last November, when we talked about using the iPad almost exclusively since its debut, we touched on three things that we felt were still missing by the platform. The first was tethering to a computer for backups/updates, which sounds like it will be resolved come the release of iOS 5. The second, APIs, is an [...]

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How Nintendo will go the way of SEGA.

August 12, 2011

Since 2007′s release of the iPhone, Nintendo has adamantly opposed the device in favor of its own mobile consoles, much as they’ve done with every competitor’s hardware in the past. And Nintendo has a legacy to stand on, with the NES and SNES and even the N64. But things kind of break down after that, [...]

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Thoughts from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium.

August 12, 2011

Over at Naturally Engineered, David Csonka gave a brief rundown of important take-aways from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium. We found several of these thoughts particularly interesting. Per Dr. S. Boyd Eaton, for example: During the paleolithic, male and female equality was greater than anytime since. This is the second time we’ve heard this. The [...]

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iPad haters: external keyboards are not cryptids.

August 11, 2011

Gary Arndt talks about using the iPad while traveling, and his review is perfectly reasonable until he mentions content creation. [The iPad] is fine for sending out tweets, replying to email or updating Facebook. I have never written a blog post nor have I edited a photo taken on my SLR with the iPad. I [...]

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