Exactly this. You can use a 5A, 30000mA (yes, that's 30A) power supply at 5V - or, specifically, attach your phone's USB connector directly to your PC power supply's 5V rail - and it would charge and operate normally and safely. (in fact, internally, many PC USB ports are wired just like this - if just through a fuse)

I…

Actually, the Leaf's interior heating (as I drive) is generated by its own entirely separate heating loop with a separate set of coolant. The cooling system for motor/charger/controller ("inverter") is looped together, so all the under-hood heat (or lack thereof) moves in unison. If it were to heat the car, it'd have…

It's water cooled, and since there's no idle heat production, the only heat occurs during the hard acceleration (or when it's laying down said torque). Water can absorb a LOT of heat, too - as a good example, we use a huge water tank to test EVSEs in our shop at 10kW, and when it warms up after 10-15 minutes of that…

Try 4 independent, unconnected motors. Tesla's finally brushing what Mercedes did in the SLS AMG Electric:

I'm not entirely sure hirensbootcd.org is run by Hiren himself... personally, I maintain my own relatively popular (but apparently not popular enough to make this list) Boot CD, called FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD - based in part on Hiren's but designed to be much more robust and practical (including MiniXP at its…

The hell? That page is all corrupt... can you check that link? I think you posted a link to some kind of weird, poorly-developed mobile version of Amazon... see screenshot. Sounds interesting, but I can't even find a price on that weird page...

I totally understand. It'd be unfair if you just popped it in there because the editor decided "hey, I like this one too, so F the hivemind". :) If you (or anyone else) gives F4UBCD a try and writes an article on it, it'd be the first time that actually happens (that I'm aware of), and it would TOTALLY make my…

I should give you a hug <3

Excuse me, but just how didn't FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD make this list? If you've got Hiren's in there... how exactly could you overlook F4UBCD? Some details: http://falconfour.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/falconfours-ultimate-boot-cdusb-4-5/ - that's the latest released version, v4.5 - but v4.6 is just a week away…

I guess you missed the part where Apple issued a patch for it.

Personal Identification Number Number. That's what's wrong.

Noticed the differentiation in the specs between "Li-Po" and "Li-Ion". Any battery technology expert would smack you on the wrist and say "no". The batteries in _all_ - and I mean all phones today - are single-cell Li-Pos in varying sizes. That's where the EV revolution took place - by making them so small and so…

Why? because Russia, of course.

I just think it's cool to wave a phone at a terminal. It's a lot easier to accidentally lose a plastic card than to accidentally forget something you're habitually checking every 3 minutes. I used Google Wallet for a while, but because the infrastructure isn't in place (due in part to the fact that the iPhone doesn't…

GOD.

>runs on gas

A patent claim has to be one sentence? That's completely arbitrary. And if it isn't completely evident why that's a ridiculous limitation that just promotes comically convoluted language as ways to get around that arbitrary and pointless limitation, I don't know how to explain it.

Notice how the lines get brighter when the elements overlap in perspective - like when a line of "Hyper" moves perpendicular to the view? Yep, that was done using a vector-graphic display of the time. Those displays, instead of showing individual pixels, actually trigger the scanning beam of the CRT to move to those…

The fuck kinda screwed-up rule is that? OK, that needs to change.

>looks just like that finger