The danger, of course, is that LED technology itself – which I think we can all agree is a very good, power-efficient thing – will become associated in the public mind with consequences such as these, resulting from bad practice. Time for a poll!
Our attention was drawn to this one by David Manners, on his Mannerisms blog – Dell Up Against It For Dodgy PCs. It involves some evidence in a case against Dell that it sold faulty PCs, which was highlighted by the New York Times. It seems the problem involved bulging Nichicon capacitors…
The study by SquareTrade covered 16,000 consoles and found the Xbox eight times more likely to hit problems than the Nintendo Wii, and twice the Sony PS3, reports Information week.
Let’s bring your collective experience and kbnowledge to bear on a particular case brought before Made By Monkeys.
I live in a part of the world where I used to dread the frigid days when I had to deal with the nasty inconvenience of frozen car door locks on my 1995 VW Jetta. Solution: Hair dryer and a long extension cord. That is until the lock barrel finally…
In a twist of real irony, here’s the latest fortune my husband pulled out of a cookie. Rather than a full size stirp of paper with an actual fortune printed on it, the cookie contained what appears to be the trim that would normally be thrown away as scrap…
Over two million pets in the UK have an idENTICHIP RF tag in the scruff of their neck that works as a kind of electronic ID tag. So what are the chances that two new devices based on the same technology — which has had a good track record up until…
View entire comic strip.Graphic artist Doug MacLaughlin and I created this pilot for a comic strip last year. Called “Hell’s Factory,” it’s a reality-based comic strip inspired by design engineers’ tales of insanity on the shop floor. Had a hellish experience yourself? Share your best “from…