@klyph: Run an iPhone 3GS augmented reality app on an iPad. Newer hardware in the iPad. It will work!

@Blackened: I checked before I wrote the post and the app store doesn't show apps that require specific hardware features (I used the compass as an example). So, no, using your iPhone 3G, you will only download apps that will run (not necessarily function completely, depending on what the dev did) on your phone. What…

@Blackened: @FriedPeeps: I think it's a serious issue. Not a matter of obsoleting old hardware via new features, but terrible terrible fragmentation. You have the apps that will run on the first gen and 3G, then there are some that need a compass, so they will run on the 3GS and 4, but not the iPad. Then there are…

@AdamKaoru: Professional quality? Hah!

@Bluecold: I doubt most cameras without a manual focus both to correlate what they're focusing on and distance, and even the ones with a manual focus probably don't bother in the autofocus algorithms.

@92BuickLeSabre: I was actually just making a joke about her way above average bust size. She looks fantastic.

@92BuickLeSabre: Well, if they just scale them up in every dimension it's not so bad.

You'd think cyborgs of the future would have a more realistic bust size.

Just want to mention the NOHD on this laser is 211 meters (measured at .25 seconds unaided eye according to Wicked Lasers). This means that to be safe for a quarter second exposure to this beam on your eyes, you need to be almost 700 feet away. Longer exposures would have an even larger NOHD. Think about this before…

@dave-keen: I believe he meant that if they got 10% of the 1000% they were asking for (100%, doubling the signal) you would reach four times the area. Actually, on second read, I'm not sure what he was going for.

@F00fybunny: AM is Amplitude Modulation and stations distinguish themselves from each other via the carrier frequency just as in FM (Frequency Modulation). Acronyms wrong, and your explanation of AM missed the mark.

@FriedPeeps: Don't listen to F00fybunny. He is wrong and trolling this article.

@the_sidewinder: If you look at screen the screen area with the LEDs you just counted out, assume an 8 sq in screen with 26 LEDs. You double the screen size in both dimensions, and now you have a 24 sq in screen with 52 LEDs, and you double it again to 96 sq in with 104 LEDs. This actually correlates via the square…

@the_sidewinder: An LED illuminates a certain area and draws a certain amount of power. If you double the width of a screen, you double the number of LEDs used to light it. If you double the height you again double the number of LEDs. I don't see any reason for it to be worse than directly linear. For edge lighting,…

This doesn't seem all that impressive to me. You look at the resolution that can be had on modern phones, and even if you scale up the backlighting power consumption linearly with respect to screen area, it seems like you should be able to get a much better resolution for less power. I'd have to see how bright it is.…

@Not sent from my iPad but sent from a Froyo device: Three times is just crazy, man. Pull yourself together!

@Not sent from my iPad but sent from a Froyo device: Not twice.

@Not sent from my iPad but sent from a Froyo device: Click share once.

@AlienHandSyndrome: They did think a blowout might happen and then had a plan to stop it: The blowout prevention valve.