That one seems like it would be easy to remake with current day components. Keep the display the same to extend battery life, give it smarter internals and slimmer design. That could be the work phone, the texting phone, the going hiking phone, the daily driver that has several days of battery life.

But the more I think about it, a Bluetooth keyboard paired with a normal smartphone would not need its own phone plan and would provide the physical buttons for typing. It just won’t be as cool as that thing.

Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I’d like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos

Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.

Also, why extend it vertically?

No.

But I would immediately buy a new laptop with a track ball and mouse buttons like this one

I’ve only seen one irl, and they are incredibly intuitive to use, and you don’t accidentally move the mouse while typing

Eh, they’re all just big and bigger islands, because every land mass is surrounded by water.

That looks like a 3d printed shell over some sort of scannable chip that pairs with an app on a smart phone to require a physical action to unlock the full phone experience.

A printed QR code paired with an similar app would serve the same function.

Most people don’t think about how things work. I’d guess that most customers thought all the smart features were internal and the Internet connection was just an arbitrary requirement

Aha, occupant fatalities. I was hoping to find out if they were measuring people inside the cars mentioned or people in other cars or pedestrians or all of the above

It’s my understanding that LLM’s are thoroughly unsafe, always reporting everything it does and every input back to whoever made the LLM. So, wouldn’t it be easy for whoever owns the LLM to see what it’s being used for, and to refuse service to scammers?

It seems like an opportunity for vehicle-to-vehicle charging, putting the power gained from gravity into another vehicle.

It would need to happen quickly and at the same time as unloading and it would have to keep enough energy to climb the hill plus a safety margin.

Does it discharge extra energy into anything else? Does it burn off extra energy as heat to maintain regenerative braking?

Saving this for when I have time to watch it. The inner workings of computers are electricity and magic to me

The negotiations must have been brutal! /s

There is good amount of energy in the sunshine. The output of solar arrays struggle to make big power out of small surface areas because we haven’t figured out how to get more than 20% of the power that hits the panel. If they do get 20% or more, it’s been with very expensive and fragile panels.

If you can park on top of a parking garage, or in a spot on ground level where sunshine is not too much blocked by the surrounding buildings, you could surely commute on sunshine. Home parking barely matters for day shift workers in this scenario.

Says the designer or design team, backed by whoever is over them who approved the decision.

As for why? For design reasons. To make it prettier so it sells more units. To fit in with the brand’s minimalist theme they’ve got going on.

Yes. Disagree with their decision, fine. But it was thought out and purposefully done.

Is it meant to stay on forever once you set it up?

I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand. You’re supposed to stop using the mouse while it is charging, and use the mouse unplugged. That’s the purpose. It’s not a stupid decision, it just prevents some user’s preferred operation of using the mouse while it is charging

If they let the driver into your place, they’ll expect the driver to take a video recording of what’s in there so that their algorithm can serve you better ads, and to avoid serving ads for things you already have.

Fewer ads? Amazon has never heard of her