24th July 2006, 7:05 PM
They stuck Linux on an XBox, so why not?
Personally though, I'd rather avoid the hassle of that. Very small hard drive (compaired to my current needs) and the fact that my computer... exists... negates the need for something like that.
What I do eventually intend on getting is wireless rechargeble awesome. So far there are only a few methods of doing that. The first is a metal place you sit your wireless devices (designed for the device) on. The problem is that the metal plate now has to be wired to something. They are perfectly safe by the way, contrary to what you might think, because of the fact that a digital signal needs to be sent through the plate before an actual connection can take place and that higher level electricty ONLY can connect to the device in question. Spilling ocean water all over it and rolling around nude is perfectly safe (too many connection points = cutoff). Again though, there are the downsides. The other is a device emitting a magnetic field so it can use the standard induction method of recharging it. The field is small though, and so it has the same issues as the metal pad (it has to be hooked up). Either one would be fine if you were setting up a table far away from your TV though. Neither one would do for real-time recharging of a controller though. At any rate, I'll say right now that if someone was dumb enough to make a powerful 50 foot magnetic field for recharging devices, I think I'd have to hurt them. Not even our most powerful magnetic fields could stop The Human, but they sure could erase all my hard disks and screw up my CRT screens (as well as cause major interference).
Personally though, I'd rather avoid the hassle of that. Very small hard drive (compaired to my current needs) and the fact that my computer... exists... negates the need for something like that.
What I do eventually intend on getting is wireless rechargeble awesome. So far there are only a few methods of doing that. The first is a metal place you sit your wireless devices (designed for the device) on. The problem is that the metal plate now has to be wired to something. They are perfectly safe by the way, contrary to what you might think, because of the fact that a digital signal needs to be sent through the plate before an actual connection can take place and that higher level electricty ONLY can connect to the device in question. Spilling ocean water all over it and rolling around nude is perfectly safe (too many connection points = cutoff). Again though, there are the downsides. The other is a device emitting a magnetic field so it can use the standard induction method of recharging it. The field is small though, and so it has the same issues as the metal pad (it has to be hooked up). Either one would be fine if you were setting up a table far away from your TV though. Neither one would do for real-time recharging of a controller though. At any rate, I'll say right now that if someone was dumb enough to make a powerful 50 foot magnetic field for recharging devices, I think I'd have to hurt them. Not even our most powerful magnetic fields could stop The Human, but they sure could erase all my hard disks and screw up my CRT screens (as well as cause major interference).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)