I had a phone with a physical keyboard that small. Surprisingly easy to work with.

So changeable keys on a touchscreen, but with physical buttons on top. Sign me up!

Yeah, I think it’s fun and funny to play with but terrible to try to make money off of it.

Sounds like a kit car or rebuild of a less than sporty classic would be ideal for your commuter car.

Well, I wasn’t interested in Jeep before, now I’m decidedly against buying a new one.

Fixing safety issues would have to include that sharp front end. Maybe just ditch the entire “stainless” exterior and restyling the whole thing would help with that.

Pretty much start with the battery pack and drivetrain, start over after that.

Oh yeah! Good addition

Speaking to those in the U.S., Your local library has a huge collection of DVDs. Your local thrift shop and eBay have blu ray players (most of which will upscale DVDs during playback) for cheap.

That one seems like it would be easy to remake with current day components. Keep the display the same to extend battery life, give it smarter internals and slimmer design. That could be the work phone, the texting phone, the going hiking phone, the daily driver that has several days of battery life.

But the more I think about it, a Bluetooth keyboard paired with a normal smartphone would not need its own phone plan and would provide the physical buttons for typing. It just won’t be as cool as that thing.

Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I’d like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos

Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.

Also, why extend it vertically?

No.

But I would immediately buy a new laptop with a track ball and mouse buttons like this one

I’ve only seen one irl, and they are incredibly intuitive to use, and you don’t accidentally move the mouse while typing

That looks like a 3d printed shell over some sort of scannable chip that pairs with an app on a smart phone to require a physical action to unlock the full phone experience.

A printed QR code paired with an similar app would serve the same function.

Most people don’t think about how things work. I’d guess that most customers thought all the smart features were internal and the Internet connection was just an arbitrary requirement

Aha, occupant fatalities. I was hoping to find out if they were measuring people inside the cars mentioned or people in other cars or pedestrians or all of the above

It’s my understanding that LLM’s are thoroughly unsafe, always reporting everything it does and every input back to whoever made the LLM. So, wouldn’t it be easy for whoever owns the LLM to see what it’s being used for, and to refuse service to scammers?

It seems like an opportunity for vehicle-to-vehicle charging, putting the power gained from gravity into another vehicle.

It would need to happen quickly and at the same time as unloading and it would have to keep enough energy to climb the hill plus a safety margin.

Does it discharge extra energy into anything else? Does it burn off extra energy as heat to maintain regenerative braking?

Saving this for when I have time to watch it. The inner workings of computers are electricity and magic to me

The negotiations must have been brutal! /s