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    Beta Test: Motorola Blur Running on the G1

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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    This computer understands that channel locks are not mean to be used on thumbs, right? #ar
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    does it berate you when you inadvertently fuck something up? #ar
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    10/27/09

    @nutbastard: Yup. If you do everything right, you have a virtual romantic evening with a hott e-lady-of-the-night. If you screw up, you get the same virtual romance holodeck experience except your virtual pee pee cannot get an e-rection, and you are virtually humiliated. And then when you try to explain it to her, she just laughs at you for telling a pair of glasses that you've just had too much wine. #ar
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    Image of NightInfinity NightInfinity
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    I saw some video where BMW(I think) was showing this tech off. Very cool. #ar
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    10/27/09

    @NightInfinity: Yes, that was a concept video, but I'm very happy to hear that it's been put to real life application at last. I think this is one of the better immediate uses for AR tech.

    As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar
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    Image of CoHPhasor CoHPhasor
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    Problem is that mechanics need their hands to be able to go in tight spots.
    Hell, what happens when you slip trying to loosen/tighten something and break it? "Guess I'm not fixing this today!" . How about how easy it'll be to smuggle these to the enemy? lol! #ar
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    10/27/09

    @CoHPhasor: ps,.. Since when was ease-of-use part of Military TM's anyway? ;-p #ar
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/27/09

    @CoHPhasor: They're written at an eight grade English level. How much easier can you get? Though you have a point, half the shit I used to have to fix on aircraft way never in a good place to stick your hands. You usually ended up doing it by feel, then using an inspection mirror to see if you did it right. That's the problem with engineers, they don't have to work on the stuff they draw up on paper. Yes, my aircraft was designed on paper, not computers..... #ar
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    Image of CoHPhasor CoHPhasor
    10/29/09

    @Barry99705: "Yes, my aircraft was designed on paper, not computers....."

    .... O,O lies! #ar
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    10/27/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics
    I would love to see a video of this in action #ar
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    Image of Wrathernaut Wrathernaut
    10/27/09

    @jakebathman: Was the second paragraph (with video link) not available when you wrote this? #ar
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    10/27/09

    @Wrathernaut: @Redrum4breakfast: @OfficerMike: @Bryan Tucker: Sorry all, I COMPLETELY missed that link. I must have been a bit distracted last night. #ar
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    10/09/09

    In reply to Beta Test: Motorola Blur Running on the G1
    What makes the Blur distinct from a vanilla plain Android experience? There doesn't seem to be much.
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    Image of malaklaze malaklaze
    10/09/09

    In reply to Beta Test: Motorola Blur Running on the G1
    OK, is there any chance at all to install Android in an iPhone?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/09/09

    @malaklaze: I'm sure someone could do it as a proof of concept. It's incredibly unlikely to be usable, though. The Android software spec requires that you have a few real buttons (I think the Home, Back, and Search buttons are among them). Which, clearly, the iPhone never will.

    It would be an awkward hack at best. Unless you're doing it for the sole goal of gloat and glee, I wouldn't recommend it.
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    Image of krische krische
    10/09/09

    In reply to Beta Test: Motorola Blur Running on the G1
    I wonder if they plan on porting the HTC Sense UI onto the Samsung Moment.

    I love the Sense, but love the physical keyboard and faster processor of the moment.
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment krische was starred krische was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/09/09

    @krische: Best idea would be to make each of the different UIs portable. Sense, Blur, stock Android. Alas, I doubt HTC and Motorola will be as open with their custom UIs. I mean, that's cool. It's what makes their products different, gives them their competitive edge, so I can understand why.

    Still would be kinda cool.
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Beta Test: Motorola Blur Running on the G1
    The love is already being shared.

    [forum.xda-developers.com]
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    10/09/09

    @njb42: XDA Developers is the only reason my WM6.1 is bearable. I love that site.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Everyone save yourselves! Throw away your cell phones. Smash them! We'll go back to using public payphones. They're much safer...
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    Image of yeti yeti
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Why is it that people are afraid of cellular frequencies, but not bluetooth?
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    09/09/09

    @yeti: I have a spectrum analyser for 2.4GHz radio bands and I checked out some BT gear on it... Wi-fi is pretty weak compared to a cel phone, but compared to Wi-fi, Bluetooth barely shows up as a smattering of background noise.

    So I'd wondered the same, but looking at it, BT is really negligible. You will literally get more radiation in the same frequency band by standing in the same room as a properly working microwave oven while using it.
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    Image of Bandit Bandit
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    The incidence of cancer in our world is WAY up over the historic rate. And cancer is virtually unknown in undeveloped areas of the planet. Coincidence?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    09/09/09

    @Bandit: I think you have to account for differences in life spans and detection rates if you want to compare the "developed" world to other areas or historical rates. If you don't have CT scans, MRIs, constant mammograms, colonoscopies, and prostate exams, you aren't going to realize/record that what killed someone was unchecked cancer. And, if you're dying because of bad water, bad nutrition, constant warfare, etc, you're less likely to live long enough to get cancer. For all we know, "old age deaths" from times before x-rays, proper autopsies, and the like could actually be cancer deaths.
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    Image of madog madog
    10/06/09

    @kagekiri: +
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    Image of FuzzysFriedChicken FuzzysFriedChicken
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    The SAR limit is in the US is 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1g of tissue. Everywhere else in the world it is 2.0 W/kg averaged over 10g of tissue. The US has the most strict standard in the world.
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    Image of wkm001 wkm001
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    I don't understand the units of measurement. Watts/Kilogram. Who gives a shit how much the phone weighs. The radiation is the only thing you care about.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    09/09/09

    @wkm001: The measurements relate to the Watts of energy absorbed per kilo of body tissue. It has nothing to do with the phone weight.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    09/09/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: You handled that much more politely than I ever could have.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    More frightening to me is that every woman I know (including myself), at one time or another, carries her cell phone in her bra.
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    Image of Scott Jackson Scott Jackson
    09/09/09

    @Curves: do you mean every fat woman you know? Because the only women I know who do that are big girls.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/09/09

    @Scott Jackson: Surprised you know any women at all.
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    Image of madog madog
    10/06/09

    @Curves: ++ rebuttal.

    Since I'm married I am developing some "man cans", however I would personally rather have a tumor on my breast than on my brain. Also, did it state it was a constant radiation, or was it while the device is being used? I could see smartphones giving off more than others with wifi/3G/GPS and the like being accessed more frequently and also while calls aren't being made.

    Then again, if your friends can talk on their phone while it's in their bra... bravo.
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