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    Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality

    A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna

    747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane

    iPhone 3G Antenna Re-Tested With Problem Phone: Still Nothing Wrong With Hardware

    Skin Antenna Uses Your Body to Boost Battery Life, Skin Cancer

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    FM Radio Antenna Lets You FM Radio It Up Without the Headphones

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    Question of the Day: Which is Better? Satellite, Cable, Download, or Antenna?

    Pneumatic Antenna Launcher is Not for Dribblers
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    Rosa,

    We have ST:TNG tech already. Tap a little button and you can communicate with it.

    It's called a Bluetooth headset.

    That's right. The entire crew of the Enterprise NCC-1701D was made of douchebags with Bluetooth. Suck on that, Geordi and Crusher!
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    10/02/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: We should all be nicer to Wil Wheaton!
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    10/02/09

    @hardcache: I think he meant Gates McFadden when he said "crusher". But I could be wrong. Horrible thing to say, I hear Gates is a kickass cook.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/02/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I think you just killed my number one fantasy by associating the subjects of it with Bluetooth headset wearers. Damn it.
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    My puny Star Trek fantasy?
    Our world becoming one people, finally working together with no boundaries, no Poverty, no Money, no starving and laying the founding stone for the Federation of Planets!
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    10/02/09

    @tylerstyle: It'll never work.
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    Hailing frequencies open...
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    I just want to be able to tell my microwave, tea, Earl Grey, hot.
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    10/02/09

    @CraigJ: You can tell it that all you want right now. Doesn't mean it will do anything.
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    Green chicks is my guess.
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    But seriously. Since the FDA reported that 4 people have died from choking on life alert pendants, maybe we can make life alert mumu's, housecoats, or even, dare I say it, LifeAlert Slanket/Snuggies! [gizmodo.com]
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
    This is just a guess, but does it involve messing with the gravity in your room like Melora did in that episode of Deep Space Nine?

    Or does it possibly involve Kilngon Painstiks? Just be warned, they can cause excessive cephalic pressures to build up.
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    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    Aren't you a little small for a Wi-Fi Antenna?


    It's not the size of your WiFi antenna, it's the band"width".

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    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    It will be interesting to see how quickly this mini Wifi technology will start appearing in all kinds of household gadgets. You could control things like lighting and appliances (dishwasher, washing machine etc.) with your computer.
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    02/02/09

    @Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!: they already have that. Called X10.
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    02/02/09

    @fogmaster: [www.obviousobscurity.org] <-- Control your home devices from your blackberry.


    Similar scripts can be written in python and run on your server / home pc

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    02/02/09

    @fogmaster: The Secret Service went on alert b/c the lights were flashing on and off and the stereo kept coming on in the Lincoln Bedroom. Until they found BHO in the Oval Office clutching both his BlackBerry and his sides laughing.
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    02/02/09

    @Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's snake!:


    I agree. What's really interesting to me is at&t's move to put 3G in all electronic devices. They are going to subsidize the crap out of every electronic device on the market.


    I am waiting for Apple and at&t's work on a new AppleTV. I think people are missing what Apple has accomplished with AppleTV.

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    02/02/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
    That is crazy, Mark. How the hell do they pack all those electronics in that tiny wafer?


    Amazing!

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    10/29/08

    In reply to 747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
    "The Herald understands that the two aircraft were separated by only a few thousand metres as weather updates were sent across to the Qantas plane, and that Qantas passengers could see the other jet through their windows."


    Can somebody ask the Herald what a metre is?

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/29/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: It's slightly smaller than a meter.
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    10/29/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Huh, 2 years of college physics and never once did I hear a meter referred to as a metre. Ah well, you learn something new. I thought it was a typo, thanks.
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    10/29/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: No that's the snobby non-American way of spelling it. For the rest of us who ride the short bus it's meter..
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    10/29/08

    In reply to 747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
    Well, to be more accurate, he flew "weather blind" across the Pacific. He knew where he was, he just didn't know the weather conditions ahead of him, so he didn't know if there was a storm or turbulence ahead, so he stayed behind the plane in front of him. This is like when I travel in the wheel ruts of the car ahead of me in a snow storm at night. I know where I am, just not what the conditions of the road ahead of me are. Still cool though.
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    10/29/08

    In reply to 747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
    Recall that these planes are flying at 1,000 Kilometers/hour. So they would cover the distance they're flying apart in about 5 seconds.


    I'd rather not fly within 5 seconds of crashing into another plane, but hey, if the alternative is death, i'll take it.

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    10/29/08

    @chrism123: @1.21Gigawatts: The planes were not right behind each other, but parallel. Even if one plane slowed to 100mph, there was no chance of collision. IIRC, isn't planes flying close behind another plane bad because you can get caught in their wash/wake, and might go into a flat spin?
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    10/29/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: I don't think you're aware of the power that a plane has. Even flying parallel one plane can bank and quickly cover the distance needed, not just for a collision, but enough for one of the planes to get caught in the other planes trail. As someone who has felt the wash of medium turbine engines, I can tell you that it's enough to fling school buses without hesitation. Hell there's even a myth busters episode covering it to some extent.
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    10/29/08

    @1.21Gigawatts: Well, a meteorite could have smacked a plane as well. Barring a catastrophic event on one of the planes, the way they were flying was "was vertically separated according to operating procedure at all times". I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the chances of them having a problem flying the way they were were only beaten by my chances of not being single tomorrow.
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    10/29/08

    In reply to 747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
    1 thousand meters is a kilometer,

    1 mile = 1.609 kilometers


    so if they were a "few thousand meters" apart, sounds like they were a mile apart. Sounds like a pretty safe enough distance.

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    10/29/08

    @ucbeecs97: Now, factor in that the 747 cruises around 565 mph.


    Still seem safe? Great ingenuity on the part of the Qantas captain and the Air New Zealand crew, but this is getting very sketchy on the safety side of it. 565 mile per hour doesn't leave you a lot of time to react if something goes wrong.

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    10/29/08

    @jayhawk11:


    good point - that's a mile every 6.15 seconds!

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    10/29/08

    @nutbastard:


    on the other hand, the front plane isn't going to stop dead in an instant. even if it could, they were vertically separated, and 6 seconds is a decent enough amount of time to make SOME kind of cautionary alteration.

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    10/29/08

    @nutbastard: Hey ya'll! Watch this!
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    10/29/08

    In reply to 747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
    "only a few thousand meters" is plenty of space.
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    10/29/08

    @KinOfCain:

    Duh...


    a few thousand meters = a few kilometers.


    TO CLOSE FOR MISSILES; SWITCHING TO GUNS!!!

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