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  • RIM comes onboard with the Wireless Power Consortium

    RIM comes onboard with the Wireless Power Consortium

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Look's like the Wireless Power Consortium can add another one of the big boys onto its list of powerful allies. Research in Motion's come on board as a member of the organization, which now includes 21 manufacturers. The Wireless Power Consortium's noble quest, you'll remember, is to develop a wireless charging standard, which it calls the Qi. The group also announced simultaneously that it's successfully finished the second round of prototype testing. RIM's support is adds further hope to the pursuit of said standard, after Nokia joined the cause in October.

    RIM comes onboard with the Wireless Power Consortium originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    What you are about to see will shock you. Our allies overseas are being given broken Speak&Spells for full interrogation and their techniques are as far from the Geneva Convention laws as you can imagine. After stripping out most of the lower part of the device, these interrogators are forcing the Speak&Spells to perform unnatural acts, some that turn the stomach.
    Touching the word "Speak" turns the unit on. "Spell" triggers a random letter. "&" triggers a random glitch sound. The touch pads to the right trigger a really crazy hold/distortion effect. This is one of the most interesting effects I've found in a Speak&Spell in years. The strip below changes the pitch. This doesn't actually utilize a transistor. I simply wired the pad to the pitch base on the circuit.

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