The electronics driving the new iPad are actually quite tiny, you could fit them into a device with this display easy. The battery, not so much :) But then this device doesn't need to last 10 hours of heavy use on a charge, and as small as it is it wouldn't need much power to light even two screens (which is what…

That's only the case with the iPad 2. Give someone an iPad 3, it's pretty damn obvious as long as you've used anything else with an LCD screen. But sure, give someone an iPad 2 and say it's an iPad 3, if they haven't seen a 3 they'll probably believe you.

Without doing the mod, it's $15 to refill a Sodastream canister, though for that you only get 1 pound of co2

NASA is pretty small beans compared to our other debts. Now, if you'd say "Don't get involved in wars that aren't directly against the United States until our debt is more manageable", that would make more sense, the military is one of the largest chunks contributing to our national debt. But NASA? They currently…

How do you expect us to build technology for sustaining life off this planet, without any budget for doing so? Such projects are considered preparing for manned spaceflight, which is the budget that was removed from NASA. If we aren't sending people any farther than the international space station, then the budget…

Number of cores means diddly squat if the clock speed is significantly outmatched. Anyways, you don't have to take my word for it, it was [Anandtech.com] that did the original benchmarks. That's a very reliable, non-biased website. And yes, if you're using the exact same GPU but double its clockspeed, then you…

Have you ever seen a neutron star *without* a shadow?

Stupid thieves. Many of the real cameras I've seen have glowing LED's, because the things are as much about deterrence as they are about capturing videos of bad things going down. They want thieves to know they are being videoed.

It's pretty easy to see where Apple got their 4x number. They explained it themselves - the iPad 2's GPU has been benchmarked at twice the power of the product with the slowest-speed Tegra 3. This is old news. The iPad 3's GPU is twice as fast as the iPad 2's GPU. Thus, 4x the speed of a Tegra 3.

Massively better screen with 44% more saturated colors, double the system/graphics speed, way better camera quality (for those weird people using it as a camera/video camera), double the RAM, voice dictation for all text boxes regardless of app, support for 4G internet (74mbps max instead of 11mbps max), same price…

Apple didn't even announce the iPad 3 until this morning, so the people working at Apple Stores wouldn't have been allowed to tell people about an upcoming iPad 3.

Gizmodo isn't allowed at these events since they bought what they knew was stolen property and tried to blackmail Apple with it ("We'll give it back to you as long as you officially state on the record that it is a true prototype of your next phone")

How are they overcharging for it? Have you looked at the prices of other comparable tablets?

Step 42: increase cholesterol levels

There were a number of issues that resulted in the disaster. Another key problem was the fact that the lookouts didn't have binoculars, they were locked up.

Thor too showed how great 3D-upconversion can work when done right - you couldn't tell it was an upconversion at all.

Are you saying if the device you are reading on starts vibrating and making noises, you aren't taken out of the story at all?

To be fair, you can type up notes and highlight passages in eBooks, as well as lend them to other people. And you can also search through a book and even your notes in it too, something you can't do with a physical book. But there are some people who just grew up on books who can't get over the feeling of a physical…

That's why I love my Kindle Touch, it shows pictures just fine, and has offline links to Wikipedia articles about characters and information all throughout the book. The only thing it's missing is color, but without color I can still look at maps and pictures.

Did you even read the article? It was about how eBooks are better to read on e-Readers than on multi-function tablets. It didn't say anything about killing eBooks, and didn't say that physical books were better than eBooks. And that survey was talking about the ideal "e-reading" platform.