WSJ report on commercials invading U.K. cellphones , SF Chronicle brave the L.A. smogginess for EV - DO , San Jose Mercury couch the Roboraptor On the endangered species inclination
San Jose Mercury author sees extinction for WowWee ’s unexampled Roboraptor , presage prehistorical / futurist toy will be collecting detritus in your closet a few month after buying it . Langberg seems to go out of his direction to tell you that the “ on ” electrical switch is located where the dung hole on a genuine T - Rex would be . Thanks!Extinction a probable luck for Roboraptor[San Jose Mercury News ] … WSJ reports on two British companies experimenting with downloading commericals into your cellphone via Bluetooth . ( More after the jump )
Yes , it ’s as intrusive and annoying as it sounds . So far , it ’s not your problem as long as you avoid Heathrow Airport and a handful of U.K. train stations . Commercials by Cellphone[Wall St. Journal ] … SF Chronicle writer Ryan Kim ca n’t hold back for wireless broadband to hit the Bay Area , so heads south into the smogginess of LA to get a whiff of Verizon ’s EV - DO serving . In his tests , connection speeds top out at 1.7 mbps in certain parts of the city ( you ’re gilded if you ’re snack in South Central ’s Roscoe ’s Chicken ‘ n ’ Waffles ) but crawled in the outermost fringes of Verizon ’s EV - DO connection , such as the Santa Monica area . On the road with wireless broadband[San Francisco Chronicle ] … NASA engineers are developing a fleet of U.A.V. ’s ( Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ) that will aid combat out - of - control wildfires . sound cool at first ( visions of these thing spewing out some high - tech flaming retardation goo from above spring to mind ) , but all these small aircraft do is ply video recon for firefighter below . Costing several million bucks a piece , U.A.V. ’s do n’t seem to be worth the cost , considering all they do is separate firefighers “ Yo , dude - serious fervor down there . ”NASA enquiry team envisions plenty of automaton aircraft monitoring wildfires[Sign On San Diego ]
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