jimwitte

What is the touch screen digitizer controller chip used in the Nuu A1 phone? I have one that is used as the Insulet...

Any idea where to get just the T15? (And less than $35 for a tool you'll use once..) Or should I just get a dremel and cut it apart? I want to take the hard drive *out*, for "digital archeology" purposes (probably nothing there, but would be interesting). I have a SCSI HDD from an old external drive I had too - I can find a standard 5/12V power board easy enough. Then get another SE on the cheap and get data off via HD floppy and a USB Superdrive. (Along with a iLamp that will still run the OSX version that still has a Superdrive drive included!) Ah, the joys of trying to get really old data off things. Did people ever have this problem with *really* ancient 8-inch (??) floppies? Or cassette based Apple 1/2? The screen on my *very* old SE/30 ("well, of *course* it's old!") doesn't work (horizontal hold coils failed), and my external color monitor broke too (*vertical* hold coils failed). I think I had an XCeed 8-bit color board, and I can't get the Mac->VGA adapter I bought to work. I either can't find the...

The is ridiculous! Is there any explanation of *why* Apple decided to do this? If they didn't, they might actually *gasp* sell *more* of the "Superdrives" (how many people remember that as a drive that could handle 400K, 800K, *and* 1.4MB disks?)? Okay, probably not, since the Apple one probably costs at least 20% more than a comparable drive.. But still..

When I saw the link for “Shine On”, I thought it was going to link to the clip of the Van Halen song from Twister!

Apple filed the FCC with request for confidentiality on the antenna

So much for “progress of the arts and sciences”.. Only if Apple decides to make such progress, and never in any technological field *other* than what Apple currently uses them (could the technology be useful for antennas attached to pill bottles or as part of some kind of long-distance movement tracker perhaps? Who knows.)

Apple's design uses some fancy engineering and (surprise!) isn't compatible

I know this is just Apple’s usual “Make-Em-Pay-The-Apple-Tax!” strategy.. But I wonder if it’s also because someone else managed to patent a “groove around a fabricated cylinder, and mating circular boss around another fabricated component” (along with 6 or so professional-looking “engineering” diagrams)? If Apple used (“stole”) the same “idea”, they could be sued by some patent troll. I’m guessing they would loose - isn’t that basically a mortise/tenon joint, which has been around forever? But - given our (US, but probably other systems as well) broken patent system, it would probably constitute a not-insignificant legal cost for Apple.

Don’t I remember some iMac that at one point had a nice little RAM-access door on the back? Was that before this model - and then they decided to (more) lock down the machine - or was it after this one in response to complaints?

Zorg: “I am very DISAPPOINTED!”

(Very late, I know..) I wonder if Apple could have fit a movement-based “energy scavenging” device that could have managed to charge the battery enough to run it (almost) indefinitely (say if you only run it an average of 2-3 hours a day, and carry it around everywhere)?

What kind of connector does it have? It doesn’t look like USB-C, which seems surprising, given that that everyone seems to want it to “take off”.

> Why not [tune/modify the woofer] software-side processing before the sound is put out, based on analysis of the soundwave and clear understanding of the internal acoustics during hardware design?

Is that really possible though? The acoustics I presume (might) be affected by whether it's sitting on glass or wood (or hung from the ceiling?!), whether it's next to a wall, maybe air dynamics (pressure, humidity, etc). And then there's maybe a "random factor" - most of us here have probably seen plots of the famous Lorentz Attractor.

But then, what exactly does "tuning the ["sub"]woofer" even *mean*? I would assume identifying whether it's creating some frequency that's making a buzz with relation to the case/table/whatever, and getting rid of it. But is there anything else going on?

It’d be fun to see how it is built!

I wonder if Apple could be “persuaded” to do that - to make “assembly videos” for all to see? Or maybe - given that it’s Apple - for a 1.99 Apple iTunes purchase. $0.99 if you just want to see one, $2.99 gets you six, $9.99 gets you the whole lot. Not sure how many people they could get to pay once the novelty had warn of though.

(For the uninitiated, like me): “thixotropy - the property of becoming less viscous when subjected to an applied stress.”