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• Charlie Stross commented on Gadget patrol: Bigger is better?
  Trust me, if presented with a choice between permanently losing the sight in one eye, and having to put up with a week in hospital and a sensation like having a dead fly under your eyelid for the next week, I strongly suspect you'd do what I did and take the hospital and the dead fly. (Especially if you only had half the vision in your other eye to start with -- we're talking white stick territory here.)...
• brucecohenpdx commented on Gadget patrol: Bigger is better?
  There's some work been done on making corrective lenses using volume holograms, which have several nice optical properties, including that in form factor they're just flat pieces of glass or plastic with the same thickness and flatness no matter what the correction. It should also be possible to create the hologram using interference between a reference beam of light and one sent through the lens of the eye and reflected back off the retina, which means the prescription is no longer dependent on the subjective responses of the patient to different corrections. The research problems there involve guaranteeing that the...
• mark.dennehy commented on Gadget patrol: Bigger is better?
  @Dave And yet, the B&N Nook Touch (my current eReader) has the same screen, same approximate size and weight as the Kindle, and most of the same hardware inside, but a touch-screen interface. It's no iPhone/Android/tablet PC, but for reading a book, it's all you need and more, and it means that the buttons you do find on the outside are all single-function ones (there's two page forward and two page back buttons, one set on either side of the frame because you have lefties and righties in the world, a power button on the back and a general-purpose button...
• Moderator Alan commented on Gadget patrol: Bigger is better?
  The Galaxy Nexus looks interesting. 1280 x 720 screen, on a phone. Yes, that's a 720p HD screen, with a 4.65" diagonal. I'm wondering whether it's going to be sensible to go higher resolution than that. (Also at Google.) Other nice features - panoramic pictures by dint of panning the phone while taking the picture. Unlock it by smiling at it. And that screen - it's not flat any more, it's very slightly curved to better fit the face as a phone....
• Moderator Alan commented on Gadget patrol: Bigger is better?
  And if that's too small a screen, you've got the Galaxy Tab 7", though you're beginning to need a poacher's coat for one of those....