Posts by Jim Peters 1

Duracell MyGrid cable-free gadget charger

Not inductive charging

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it has four contacts, and they seem to touch the bars on the charger. I'd guess that they are alternately +/- and the contacts have a bunch of diodes to sort out +/- so no induction is necessary.

Google hugs Adobe harder with Chrome-PDF merge

I'll tell you why ...

They want to get everything built-in because they're trying to turn

the browser into the OS. So on their browser-OS (which even has

separate processes now) they can now run a PDF reader and a Flash

reader. They need these things running *in* their browser-OS, not

outside of it. They want everything layered on top of their browser

and completely under its control. Then they have the reliability they

need to make a browser that will never need to be killed from the host

OS, i.e. you no longer need host OS access.

Makes sense?