(Part 3) Top products from r/tech

Twenty Hydrogen Myths by noted environmentalist Amory Lovins:
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E03-05_TwentyHydrogenMyths

>Amory Lovins has received ten honorary doctorates and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1984, of the World Academy of Art and Science in 1988, and of the World Business Academy in 2001. He has received the World Technology Award, the Right Livelihood Award, the Blue Planet Prize, Volvo Environment Prize, the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment in 1998, and the National Design (Design Mind), Jean Meyer, and Lindbergh Awards

>Lovins is also the recipient of the Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, and the Shingo, Nissan, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. He has also received a MacArthur Fellowship and is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. Furthermore he is on the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation.

>In 2009, Time magazine named Lovins as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Hydrogen is not only clean and green when made from renewable energy, it's the fuel of the future.

I agree with you that would be pretty sweet. But you can achieve something pretty similar with a USB header to USB female adapter and putting the unifying receiver inside your case.

I have one of these, one port has my unifying receiver, the other has an Xbox controller dongle. Works great.

The Sansa Clip devices are pretty popular.
The storage is accessed in the same way as a USB drive. With Rockbox it can play pretty much any format, log plays to a scrobble file. It's cheap, sturdy and reliable with good battery life.

> They are universally garbage

Buy a Brother printer. Sturdy printers with cheap ink.

I've had their infamously great Brother HL-2270DW black and white laser printer for two and a half years and it's never skipped a beat.

I haven't own an inkjet of theirs but they all seem well rated at Amazon.

It's pretty easy to add a usb charging port with this and this.

Ehh, it's not like their brief soho routers ran windows, and it's not like they don't pay a shit ton of licensing fees in the cell space anyway, for patents.

I can see why they wouldn't want to feed google, but I'm pretty sure they'd make money faster on the hardware and whatever OneDrive stuff they integrate than whatever google charges for stock android.

Logitech G9X, greatest mouse I have ever used.

you mean amazon reviews are completely unregulated and easy to exploit? you don't say

have you ever tried a rollermouse? that's something sort of inbetween!

Also: do you not have any other devices that plug into your computer? have you never use a usb device before? Just curious and intrigued.

Or you could just spend $15 on MSR Sweet Water Purifier Solution.

Or $40 on a SteriPen, if you don't want to mess up the flavor.

Have you seen the Das Model S Professional For Mac?

Reviews here via the Amazon page.

The The Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard looks like it would be quite good too, although personally, I'm not a fan of curved keyboards - I prefer them on a linear slant. But I prefer white keyboards, and from what I've read the Model S (above) has a slightly different key layout to Apple's current one, so would probably pick the Tactile Pro - it just looks more 'Apple-like' too.

I agree with you about those laser light projector keyboards - they look great but probably feel as stupid as drumming my fingers on my desk without an actual keyboard projected onto it.

No way I'll give up my rally mirror. I suggest everyone get one, they're cheap and really increase visibility.

Because researchers like their budgets and news agencies haven't the foggiest.

PdAg membranes for hydrogen separation are nothing new.

If you want to see something which might borderline work, check out https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Oil-Gas-Methanol-Economy/dp/3527312757/

You're still stuck with water electrolysis and synthesizing methanol from H2 and CO2, which is however at mild conditions and CO2 is abundant. Unlike an ammonia leak, methanol leaks don't kill people. You shouldn't drink it, but then you shouldn't gasoline either. Unlike gasoline, methanol is fully water miscible and highly biodegradable.

Another thing: methanol is C1 feedstock for much of industrial chemistry.

Splitter- $10.99

Or this one that's half the cost.

You could always try buying a 2 male 1 female audio splitter. To make the cords that go into your computers longer you can buy female to male audio extenders for each side.

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Cable-Store-Headphone-Splitter/dp/B001NZVEAQ

http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-13787-Female-Extension/dp/B00007FGU7/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376438079&sr=1-1&keywords=audio+extension+cable


Not sure how the sound quality will be but I would imagine this should work.

One of these then? My point is, it's solvable, and putting two ethernet ports on such a tiny board would be a huge waste of space.

I never found a 3-conductor (TRS) 2.5mm jack I liked much. And not because of the stereo imaging problem (shared return) but because they all seemed to be made poorly and either produced noisy connections (when you move it it makes scratchy noises) on day one or after a bit of use.

Although since Kenwood-style connectors used mono 2.5mms for decades before (used for some radio microphones and for cassette tape recorders with an electret microphone and pause switch), as seen on the side of this recorder perhaps it is possible to make a lasting, reliable 2.5mm jack.

As far as I know there were two reasons for Apple (and others) to switch from 2.5mm to 1/8". First is that 2.5mm jacks usually used their 3 conductors for mono audio out, mono mic in (with mic bias) and shared return. That meant no stereo audio out and since the iPhone was announced as being a music player that simply wouldn't do. So it had to have a 1/8" jack.

Second reason is related, but basically that since 2.5mm jacks were mono that meant there weren't any hi-fi 2.5mm earphones. So if Apple used a 1/8" jack you could use a lot of quality headphones with their phones (but not as many as if the hadn't recessed the jack, idiots!) and if they used a 2.5mm basically there would be only whatever Apple bundled.

Apple also used a 4-conductor (TRRS) 1/8" jack (CTIA config, see here) which meant that headphones made to work on their devices (including microphone) weren't 100% compatible with other 1/8" jacks. Take your iPhone earbuds and plug them in on a plane and you may find you get no audio (or close to it) because the 3-conductor jack on that plane contacts the 1,3,4 conductors on the AHJ (CTIA) jack on that page instead of the 2,3,4 conductors as would be needed to make the earbuds work. Your fancy noise cancelling Bose (or otherwise) headphones may come with a "swapping" adapter to convert between CTIA and OMTP to make your headphones work in places they otherwise wouldn't.

But I guess I digress too much. It's all a bit of a mess.