A Leslie Wong Blog

Bruno Senna, in a visceral driving demonstration in a 2010 Formula One Renault R30, advises against using your iPhone while driving, especially going through Eau Rouge at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The drive (and doughnuts) took place at the World Series by Renault last week.  Read More →

Download the file, rename it update.zip and copy it to the root directory of the sdcard storage Reboot the phone into the bootloader by holding the volume up button while pushing the power button Use the volume down button to highlight recovery and push the power button to select You’ll see a triangle with an exclamation mark in the center. Hold the power button and then press volume up and use the volume key to select “apply update from /sdcard” and press the power button.  Read More →

When I bought a Samsung Nexus S in December, I had problems using the Android keyboard because I have big fingers. They aren’t the sausages I remember when I shook George Duvivier‘s hand, but they’re big. Inevitably, when I used the keyboard in the portrait mode, a key press would often result in a mistyped letter. I thought a Bluetooth keyboard would help with this problem and I miraculously received one for Christmas. The Apple Wireless Keyboard follows Apple’s design aesthetic,... Read the rest of this entry »

Nico Rosberg, Mercedes Grand Prix Petronas Formula One Team driver, explains all the buttons and dials on Michael Schumacher’s 2011 steering wheel. I saw this video originally on Wired.com and I was going to embed their video but they just took it from the Official Youtube channel of the Mercedes Grand Prix Petronas Formula One Team and stuck the Wired brand on it.  Read More →

The site re35.net says, “The RE-35 cartridge replaces the film in your classic analog 35-mm camera. Set the ISO to 400 and your done – your camera will now take high quality digital pictures.” This would be great, if it’s true, though a search for “Flexisensor” and patent turned up only a device from 1998 for monitoring blood oxygen saturation. UPDATE: The site re35.net posts this disclaimer: “THE BAD NEWS: Some things are too good to be true! Re-35 does... Read the rest of this entry »

  I was reading Robert Scoble’s post about the AT&T-T-Mobile deal (One bad company buying another: AT&T buys TMobile) and he mentioned, “Devil’s Slide (cell service) is non-existent for AT&T and TMobile, but works the entire way on Verizon for me.” Devil’s Slide is an area of steep cliffs along the Pacific Ocean about five miles south of San Francisco, California. This stretch of Highway 1 can induce acrophobia if you start thinking about driving your... Read the rest of this entry »

It’ll be over for us soon. by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.  Read More →

The Petersen Automotive Museum show, Supercars: When Too Much Is Almost Enough opens March 5, 2011. The first supercar I remember was the Lamborghini Miura. In the ’60′s, I read a road test in Car and Driver or Road and Track, where the author (Brock Yates? P. J. O’Rourke?, David E. Davis?) recalled driving at a sedate 100 mph in Nevada when a Porsche came up from behind flashing it’s headlights. He said they’d normally be polite and move over, but in the Miura, they... Read the rest of this entry »

Why do I still have this computer? Why am I still able to find the DOS 3.2 boot disk? Why does it still boot? Why did I carry this computer around 25 years ago? The NEC Multispeed EL wasn’t my first computer, but IIRC, it may have been my first portable computer. Portable in that the computer and case with the shoulder strap weighed 12 pounds (5.4 kg). I don’t remember what I was doing with it. I just powered it on and wondered if the makers of Microsoft DOS thought anyone would ever... Read the rest of this entry »