Just don't nick the ds lite design. Bloody 'ell that was awful. :blink: granted mine would never break... .even when I tried too.. I wanted to case the mod the sucker and I couldn't without the hinge being broken ahahha
Here's a handy hint, hope it helpsJust don't nick the ds lite design. Bloody 'ell that was awful. :blink: granted mine would never break... .even when I tried too.. I wanted to case the mod the sucker and I couldn't without the hinge being broken ahahha
You don't need to COPY it, you just need to officialy BUY it, you know, even patented products can just be BUYED usualy, most stuff is patented anyways.
So that'll be a no from ED.
I'm normally not a stickler for spelling or grammar, but this one really irks me... <.< The word is bought.
My little translation tool says "buyed" is a valid word (buyed= Gekauft am, bought= gekauft) but of course it's only a google translation which never was that great when translating content releated stuff instead of single words. ^^"
I'm just going by what ED said when he was deciding what hinge to use for the Pandora, no sliding mechanisms or rotating hinges because they're patented.You don't need to COPY it, you just need to officialy BUY it, you know, even patented products can just be BUYED usualy, most stuff is patented anyways.
By all means, I hope you took no offense from what I said. I realize that these things can happen. It's just... that was really bothering me... <.<Sorry, for the fact that english is not my native language and 90% of my todays english was learned through Internet and not at school, I'm always surprised that people here understand me at all.
I'm preeeety sure it was a joke.Isn't a heating element going to have some costs associated with it as far as battery life goes? Would it be worth it? Maybe there are some regenerative cooling technologies we could tap into to reduce the energy expenditure associated with the heating element.what about a small sealed pneumatic cylinder, wrapped with a small software controlled heating element. you could software control the temperature and have a reset angle for when you opened the lid and different profiles for different applications
Just my two cents. I'm not an expert on these things.
Wouldn't that weaken over time?
I wasn't aware the sliding screen design was patented by any one manufacturer, as multiple manufacturers use the same sort of concept for smartphones with a keyboard beneath it, including HTC (Touch Pro, Touch Pro 2), Samsung (Samsung Intercept), Sony (Various phones and the PSP Go) I can't imagine ALL of them either don't have an agreement or somehow got around the patent...
IIRC he said that they were patented AND nobody was willing to sell these original hinges as the production was reserved for certain other devices. Like the recent problem for Canonical(?) to get saphire glass: They reported that Apple has bought all available glass produced in the next three years!I'm just going by what ED said when he was deciding what hinge to use for the Pandora, no sliding mechanisms or rotating hinges because they're patented.You don't need to COPY it, you just need to officialy BUY it, you know, even patented products can just be BUYED usualy, most stuff is patented anyways.
