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FigNinja
10/14/09

In reply to Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves
Dang. Another sweet looking Android phone. This is making my choice really hard.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/14/09

In reply to Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves
Tell me this is going to have a D-Pad of some sort...
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know1
10/14/09

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.:

Are D-pads really necessary anymore for touch screen phones? The closest thing the G1 has is a trackball, and seriously, it's pretty useless outside of tabbing through a block of multiple hyperlinks on a webpage where your finger might hit the wrong link.

My only concern with this phone is that beyond the initial specs (which sound good so far), the device itself is pretty boring in form factor and aesthetics. I looks like the engineers told the designers to just put a plastic box around their hardware. It has no "pick-up" appeal.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/14/09

@know1: See, my thing is, I'm a gamer. A D-pad is de rigeur for me. Especially when that Snapdragon could make for quite the mobile gaming experience.

Touchscreen controls are nice if a game is built around them, but I like emulators, and touchscreen controls suck for emulators.
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Geisrud
07/16/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs

only consumes 4W of electricity (compared to a 25W incandescent)
Who the hell uses a 25W incandescent lightbulb?
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Frizzaper
07/16/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
I realize it's not a whole lot of liquid, but it strikes me that electricity+water=accidents waiting to happen. Assuming the bulbs are assembled perfectly, what happens when you knock a lamp over with one of these bulbs in it?
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Geisrud
07/16/09

@Frizzaper: From TFA - "Not to worry, if you drop/break it - the liquid inside is harmless paraffin oil that has been tested and certified safe to UL and ROHS standards."
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Jonhy
07/16/09

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Anyone got a comparison for how much a traditional incandescent and CCFL cost in electricity per year & upfront?
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CAVEperson
07/16/09

@Jonhy: The average CFL is a foolish purchase. Manufacturers use cheap electrolytic capacitors that overheat (in the usual bulb-down mounting position) and burn out long before the rated lifetime of the bulb--usually within a year, in my experience, especially for the crappy CFLs that Costco sells and many people buy. I replace those caps to revive the lights, but I doubt that most folks would want to do that. So, the cost of electricity isn't the most important factor in the economic calculation. On the other hand, I have six 18W Panasonic EFT18LE-T compact fluorescents for which I paid $10 each in 1992, and they're all still working just fine in daily use (bulb down, too). Vastly more economical than these LEDs!
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Blake380
07/15/09

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I thought LEDs are not supposed to generate heat.
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fuchikoma
07/16/09

@Blake380:

Very little normally, but it's one of the problems with room lighting bulbs - they can make them very bright, but they heat up, dramatically shortening the life of the LED. That's why most lightbulb replacements have cooling fins (well, that and the power adapter built in!)
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shockwaver
07/15/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
so, these put off less light then a 25w bulb? The problem I have with my CFLs, is I just can't get the room to fill with light in the same way, and this is even dimmer? I'd love to save even more energy, but not at the cost of even more light.
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jdale
07/15/09

@shockwaver: That's still a big problem with LED lights, they just aren't available very bright. Even the ones that say they replace 60W bulbs are usually "exaggerating" quite a bit.

I don't know how useful liquid cooling is. It will delay the bulb from heating up, as the liquid absorbs the heat, but you're still producing the same heat and eventually it will be hot. In a 4W bulb it may not be relevant in the time the bulb is on, but scale up to a 12W or 20W and it's going to get hot, and stay hot when you turn it off, unless you add radiator fins like every other LED bulb already has.
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deanbmmv
07/15/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
The lighting seems much more natural.

Though daylight white is kind of bluey and weak, I suppose it would work great as a bedside light in the morning (blue lights are better at waking you up)

Is it the water than aids with the natural colours or does the water just mean you can unscrew a cool light bulb straight away (their example)
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AlexSea
07/15/09

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what does it mean when the line that says 'other LED lights, cool to' overlaps the picture below it? Is it just formatting on gawker media's part, or is firefox 3.5 rendering things wrong? just curious, i'm not trying to be a peckerwood.
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deanbmmv
07/15/09

@AlexSea: "..the touch thanks to the.." though the writing does overlap the picture in Chrome. Then finishes the rest of the sentence beneath the images
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Woz
07/15/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
Daylight White does not look good in a home. But I would love to be able to turn all my lights in the home into LED. I did so with the Christmas lights already. But at $35 a bulb, that's a little to much for redoing my whole house.
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bosskev
07/15/09

In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
OMG, the video on their site is SO trippy, watching the liquid swirl around like a half-filled snow globe! You really can't appreciate the "liquid cooling" from the still pictures above, go check out the video.
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aaj111
07/15/09

@bosskev:

Wow! I didn't even see the water in the pictures, but the video really shows that it's a lightbulb with water in it. That's insane! ...and wicked cool! Not to mention ultimate money savers. I can't wait to get my hand on some of these.
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