Vlad Savov
On The Verge since Sep 06, 2011
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About Vlad Savov
I'm a Bulgarian who moved to London at the age of 12. My passions include watertight grammatical structures, rigorous research, and awesome photography. The greatest single piece of technology I've yet come across is the 2010 MacBook Air.
Vlad Savov
On The Verge since Sep 06, 2011
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Recommended Five reasons to give the new Top Gear a chanceArticle
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I imagine this was an instance where the company was toying with a rotating crown right up until the end, and eventually called it off. All the units we saw in London today were prototypes and the Montblanc people were discovering bugs on them as we went through the demos. So yeah, a rotating mechanical element probably would’ve taken too long to implement properly, on top of the other software work they have to do.
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Yes, it’d probably make me look quite Trumpian.
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Yes. This is from the author of that article and these photographs.
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She is so right.
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There’s always someone who’s convinced he knows better. As it happens, I have this game downloaded to my phone too, but I’ve never touched it because Egg Inc. is so engrossing.
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And the physics, don’t neglect how effective the physics of this game are in immersing you in its cartoony world. The drone knockdowns are utterly satisfying, and you can mess around with the chicken crowd dynamics.
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I’ve maxed out that hold-to-churn-chickens ability and I regret it. It’s never the sort of overwhelming deluge that I can generate with four-fingers taps. And the trick to keeping your multiplier maxed without running out of supply is to create big bursts of chickens that clamp up and struggle to decouple, thus taking longer to enter the hen house (and thereby allowing your hatchery more time to refill). Trust me, I’ve thought this through.
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Your Samsung joke is a few years late.
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Xiaomi Mi Mix. LG G6. Samsung Galaxy S8. Those are just the three we know of so far that have shown bezels melting away. The beautiful thing about tech is that the extremes and absurdities of the past (not always, but often) grow into the realities of the present. Look at the OLED TVs we have today and tell me they weren’t absurd a few years ago.
Also, loosen the hell up!
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Not at all. The sound from this speaker is amazing. You can daisy-chain them too, and though you won’t get stereo sound, two of them are even more impressive. Trust me, I hate most Bluetooth speakers, and I’ve certainly never loved one of this size. It was a revelation listening to these.
(That said, I’m pretty sure you’re talking about the styling and the gaudy 3D-printed parts, which I will offer no defense for).
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True. Though our expectations are at least a little inflated by the excellence of smartphones.
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A5 Sportback:
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Thank you for having my back. I thought I was just seeing avocados in everything!
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Rolls-Royce has flirted with the idea, including with the ridiculous Vision 100 concept:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/16/11952304/rolls-royce-vision-100-concept-car-photos
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Good point. They look as cheap and tacky in person as in the pictures. I guess I kinda glossed over them in my mind, owing to the beauty of the rest of the car.
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Sitting inside it was nice. Slightly more spacious than my London apartment.
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I’m not criticising anyone here. It’s just a particularly red year in Geneva this year, and I felt like illustrating the trend.
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Not pictured: the red debuts from Mitsubishi, Mazda, Honda, Suzuki, Hyundai… Nissan mixed it up by going burgundy.
On reflection, I’m conscious I haven’t spent enough time with the Japanese companies, but it seems like Geneva is a big showcase for European companies primarily, with US and JP competitors putting in an appearance but not much news. That being said, I did very much like the Lexus LS 500 (in yellow!).
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