This isn't going to work for catastrophic flooding; your typical vehicle or subway tunnel holds hundreds of times more water than any swimming pool. Let's do the math:

How does making a good product better make it a disappointment? The *ONLY* thing I would realistically want to change on the new iPad is to make it lighter - at least the same weight as the iPad 2.

I just read the abstract of the study this article refers to, and (shockingly), the Giz article misrepresents the findings. All the study found is that the energy use inside some free apps is mainly used by ad modules - but there is NOTHING mentioned about the same free apps using up your battery even when you aren't…

I don't think this is a big problem. I have the free version of Angry Birds installed on my Android, and Facebook, plus some other free popular games. I haven't played Angry Birds in weeks, but I use Facebook several times a day. But I just checked my running apps and services and I didn't see either one listed.

I'm no aviation expert, but "vastly superior aerodynamics" does not seem to fit with "less stable in flight". Based on the other info in this article, I think I'm going to go with the latter and ignore the former.

I don't get why a pattern lock is harder to crack than a code. After all, all the phone cares about is that you connect the dots in the right sequence. If you imagine that the dots are numbered 1-9, then swiping in a code is logically equivalent to punching in a code on a keypad (which is another Android lock option).…

I just don't get the appeal of being first to buy the latest iThing. Other than bragging rights, those who wait are better off - they may save a little money, they don't get antsy waiting for their precious to arrive, and they're less likely to experience glitches (witness antennagate, discolored displays, etc.)

Neat idea, but at least on my HTC it doesn't work with Gallery and Quick Pic apps (the latter is a good alternative to Gallery). It appears as if those apps use a different sharing menu (without a "default" checkbox), so you can't force them to always use Andmade Share. That's not the fault of Andmade's devs, but it's…

I have to admit I haven't tried this app, but in general I think that these kinds of "swiss army" apps are mostly useful for people who aren't that into apps in general, because you get a lot of features without having to hunt for each individually - both in Market and in the UI.

QR codes are new, so it's understandable that a) many people don't know what they are, and b) many of the people putting them on ads don't know how to use them, and c) they aren't as easy to use as they could be. But that doesn't make them a "sad and horrible technology". About the only real missed opportunity I see…

Yawn. Seems like the "best Android phone ever" comes out about once a week these days. This reminds me of all the megahertz one-upmanship of the 90s when PC manufacturers couldn't think of anything to do to make their products stand out against the competition, except have "more" of everything. Note to phone…

I've seen these fake "palm tree" towers, as well as fake "pine tree" towers. They both are utterly unconvincing; they look about as real as plastic lego trees blown up to huge size.

I've worked for fortune 50 companies, on sensitive projects, and I've never encountered anything like this. Maybe Apple is different, but I'm sure some of this is B.S. that Apple is perfectly happy to let people believe - it helps keep employees in line, and it adds to the Apple mystique.

I was on their early sign-up list to get the chance to buy a Lytro camera, but I decided not to when I couldn't find any straightforward information about the resolution of the photos. Based on what I *could* find I decided the resolution was pretty low, and some recent Google searches have born that out (1.2…

Ice Cream Sandwich or go home.

I think I can hazard a guess about what Suntel might do...

Protip: Flu shots don't protect you from the common cold, nor do they protect you from every kind of flu. Just thought you should know. Carry on.

This whole discussion is moot since it's made by Polaroid, which these days is just a sticker slapped on low-end China products. It'll likely be slow, glitchy, and bulky, with so-so build quality and cheap materials.

This phone does NOT have a 15-year standby time. This phone's real standby time is probably a few days, maybe a week or two. Standby time is the maximum amount of time a phone can stay powered on and be ready to receive a call. The 15 years being referred to here is simply the maximum shelf life of a lithium AA…

I knew about the terminal velocity thing even before I started to watch this, but I still thought it was way cooler to demonstrate it this way vs. just dropping it from the top of a building.