Hasta La Gadget!

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I personally had the honor of helping to judge the finalists of Nokia’s PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA contest yesterday morning, and in the process of watching all three teams do their thing, I took the opportunity to film some footage. All three hacks showed some serious ingenuity — not just in terms of the sheer difficulty of pulling a serviceable demo together in a little over three weeks’ time, but also in the breadth and depth of the concepts: Pit Crew takes classic slot cars out of the stone age by using the N900 as a wireless controller, Bike Dashboard is a handlebar-mounted N900 with a number of sensors and features for tracking your bike ride, and Niko is a Lego Mindstorms-wrought robot with an N900-powered brain and a penchant for Twitter. Follow the break for video of all three pitching their wares — and find out who won this thing!

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It’s no huge secret that the differences between LTE and WiMAX aren’t exceedingly drastic, and with the right support, the two could theoretically form one big, happy family. During this morning’s CTIA keynote with Dan Hesse (Sprint’s CEO) and Bill Morrow (Clearwire‘s CEO), the latter noted that he wasn’t interested in waging a war with LTE, suggesting that his spectrum is “designed and built so we can add on LTE should we need to.” ‘Course, one would suggest that Clearwire’s in no position to get angry with the standard that boasts larger industry support, but we digress. A few hours later during Verizon’s LTE roundtable, the carrier’s CTO (Tony Melone) responded to an audience question related to LTE and WiMAX becoming one. His brutally honest opinion? It’ll never happen, and the “only big happy family” he can think of is the 3GPP to LTE crew, of which Verizon Wireless is obviously a member. He wouldn’t elaborate on the whys or whats, only noting that it was his frank opinion on the matter from his knowledge in the field, but we can’t candidly say that we’d love for the war to rage on — competition is stellar, but joined efforts to create a larger, more robust 4G network sounds a lot sweeter to our ears than the clanging of swords.

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Electromagnetic inference (EMI) as a cause of Toyota’s unintended acceleration woes: That’s the latest allegation. And one that Toyota quickly rebutted, which is not the same as saying successfully refuted. EMI is scary in theory: The electronic devices we carry with us such as cellphones, laptops, and iPods emit radio waves that might interfere with cars, pacemakers, or the airplanes we fly in. This potential cause was highlighted today in a press conference by Tom Murray, an Ohio lawyer who’s filed dozens of unintended-acceleration lawsuits the last two decades.

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