It was hellaciously slow this morning, but not since then.

Power tools are the vanguard of new battery tech: [link]

Excerpts:

... a new line of teeth-rattling 36-volt cordless saws, rotary hammers, and drills from DeWalt, a division of Black & Decker, finally delivers. The potent black-and-yellow beasts have twice the power of standard 18-volt tools and run for twice as long per charge.

Cofounder Yet-Ming Chiang, a materials science professor, succeeded in shrinking to nanoscale the particles that coat the battery's electrodes and store and discharge energy. The results are electrifying: Power density doubles, peak energy jumps fivefold (the cells pack more punch than a standard 110-volt wall outlet), and recharging time plummets.

A123's real target, however, is your car. Chiang says A123's cells could lighten a Toyota Prius' 100-pound battery by as much as 80 percent and help boost any hybrid's performance. The quick recharging time - the M1 takes five minutes to reach 90 percent capacity - plus high peak power also would be ideal for plug-in versions of gas-electric vehicles.

It's basically Lithium Ion batteries liberated from the hazards they've been worried about, dropping, heating, etc.

Toshiba has something of the sort coming on line as well.

[link]

Or is the M1 it?

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Nope, a competitor, and apparently beat Toshiba to it.

First recording with commercials on the Myth box appears to have worked perfectly. The commericals were cut out completely leaving out a brief fade to black and back.

I haven't have much time to mess with it, but even in it's incomplete state, the MythBox is awesome. The only problem is that now I have to work configuring it around it's scheduled recording times. Still need to make sure that SSH is configured and working, gotta get the web server starting up and add access control, gotta add network icons to pretty up the display, and gotta set it all up to start mythTV automatically. Then comes the quieting and putting in the ethernet cable to the living room.

ita, I have this air purifier in my bedroom and I've been happy with it. [link]

Would putting that under your desk be useful? Or would it have to be on top?

Under might work most of the time, but on top would be more likely to catch the strong trigger scents before they reach you. It does blow air out in a relatively directional way which might make your legs cold if it's under the desk.

Cool. Thanks.

Something like this [link] might be more useful for under the desk. I don't know anything about this particular one, but it has less of a front/back than the Holmes.

Oh my. I think I'm their target market:

Top 10 Geek Watches

If geeking out on the details is your thing, this Frank Gehry- designed Negative/Positive Display watch may be right up your alley. The watch screen features the architect’s own script, displaying time in shorthand: “half past 11,” “6 til 1,” etc. Another neat design quirk about this watch, which we originally saw back in January, is the positive display during the day, which automatically switches to a negative display during the night.

Want.