Scooter

@TIMMAH

Would you believe that on the entire internets, a search for "usb Y cable ipad" finds this post of yours as number 1?

I think it would work but maybe not enough profit for anyone to make it?

Throw dual tuners so that I can watch two channels at once at 4:3, and give me control to mute one or the other or neither. Yes I'm serious, these days we multitask and I'd likely still have the laptop open at the same time.

A particularly stupid scam for particularly stupid people. Yes that means you, if you "have an open mind" about this. You don't need an open mind about flying to the moon in an helicopter. It's not possible.

Paradigm shifts do come around once in awhile, but not like this. The real ones are more like "MIT researchers develop low power water desalinization process". Which is also highly unlikely, as things that would change the world usually are, but in that case worthy of a 2 second read.**

It is possible, no actually intelligent, to outright reject the notion of a propeller airplane being flown to the moon, or a mystery device that generates power using magnets and time.

**MIT has no relation to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the

Amazed at the gullibility of Engadget readers. A little bit dismayed actually, I thought I had found a site for "clever people who like technology" like me, but apparently not.

By the way, a video of this thing levitating / spinning / powering a lightbulb doing anything really is not proof. Proof comes from scientific tests. Even those aren't really necessary though.

I am GREEDY and NEEDFUL for QUALITY and DESIGN in a notebook. I DEVOUR news on the Vaios and Thinkpads. My own T60 is CHERISHED, yet I HUNGER for MORE. ENGADGET... SUBDUES my DESIRE but does not SATIATE it. This is one I want TODAY, Intel. Bring it on, you will make MONEY.

On a side note, Macbooks don't do it for me.

Very doubtful. Kinetic energy of wind is the same as all other forms: .5m v squared. The v means high velocity needed. The torque placed on the turbine is based on the force * half the radius (assuming uniform distribution). Therefore power comes from fast wind and large diameter turbines. The engineers (I am one) tend to get these things right. To power a house and provide enough current to pay for all the no-wind times you draw from the net, I have no idea but I'd guess at a minimum one of those big hobby windmills(20 ft diameter) way up in the air. Solar power is more appropriate (and less intrusive) for home applications in a suburban setting.

Our society is truly going to collapse.

This will never be widely used. The movie studios have no interest in spending more money so they can earn less money. Degrading discs is a cash cow, they had plenty of opportunity to make stronger cds and dvds, but 'since it's the consumers own fault for scratching their discs' they didn't do it.

Kapiche?

Instead of an "if" statement a mile long that leads to a possible multi-trillion dollar 'space elevator', shouldn't these scientists, or should I say sci-fi-intists, devote their energies to something somewhat realistic? There are hundreds of real world technologies that need improving, including water desalinization, cleaner nuclear or fusion power, fuel cell technologies, etc. You know, things that could make the world a better place.

I swear if I see another "space elevator" headline.