The TrapTap is a legal radar detector (sort of)

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As awesome as driving can be, it can also be annoying—there’s heavy traffic, rude or ignorant motorists, and sky-high insurance premiums and gas prices, to name just a few irritations.
But one of these annoyances is about to become a thing of the past, if a group of enterprising Winnipeggers have anything to say about it. The company is called TrapTap, and its crowd-funded product is designed to warn you of police radar traps, red-light cameras, and school zones before you’re close enough to them to get into trouble.
This should sound familiar—lots of smartphone apps offer the same functionality with battery such as Philips VS2+ Battery, Philips 863266 Battery, Philips 989803166291 Battery, Welch Allyn 4500-84 Battery, Welch Allyn 450EO Battery, Welch Allyn 450TO Battery, Welch Allyn 45MTO Battery, Welch Allyn 45NTO Battery, Kaden Yasen WP-YHD-3160 Battery, Kaden Yasen ECG-901 Battery, Kaden Yasen HYHB-1270 Battery. Like Waze, Trapster and other products, you use TrapTap by installing its free app, which uses your phone’s GPS and data connection. But unlike those other services, TrapTap’s app speaks to a hardware companion, a Bluetooth-connected “button” that lights up red, green or blue.
“It’s a not-so-annoying backseat driver,” TrapTap founder Bryce North told Autofocus, but the reality is TrapTap is very much a front-seat device.
The button, which is about twice the diameter of a toonie, mounts to your dashboard somewhere you can easily see it – and touch it – while driving. Being able to touch it is key: “If you’re driving down the road and you see a speed trap and the light doesn’t come on,” explains North, “just tap the button to inform the rest of the community… We’re the hands-free version of Waze.”
This one aspect – being able to use TrapTap without interacting directly with your smartphone – could make a big difference to drivers. Distracted driving is very much illegal, and using an app with your hands while driving is not just against the law, it’s really dangerous.
Pressing the TrapTap button is no more distracting than pressing the power button on your stereo. Compare that to the multi-step sequence required to report a police presence using the Waze app, which is so complicated the Google-owned company suggests you pull over to do it.
Powered by a replaceable two-year battery, the button can be moved from one vehicle to another and paired with multiple smartphones. Cleverly, thanks to its embedded sensors, there’s no need to access the TrapTap app yourself as long as it’s running in the background. As soon as the button detects motion, it connects to the app for you.
Unfortunately, TrapTap is kind of a one-trick pony. While it does a great job of offering alerts and providing a one-tap method of informing other drivers, it doesn’t do much else. You’ll still need a GPS app if you want directions or to be informed of hazards like road debris, construction or heavy traffic, sapping your phone of even more power and consuming more data while you’re on the road.
But what about the legality of using TrapTap for its intended purpose? It turns out being informed of a speed trap location is perfectly legal in both the U.S. and Canada, unless you’re using a radar detector. The act of informing others is legal, too, notwithstanding some police forces’ belief it shouldn’t be. In fact, some police forces are totally OK with it.
“Our position is that the more people who know that the cops are out, the better,” says Sergeant Kerry Schmidt of the highway safety division of the Ontario Provincial Police. However, Schmidt is quick to caution drivers that just because TrapTap’s blue light doesn’t come on doesn’t mean they should ignore posted speed limits. “We’ve got airplanes in the sky, police on the ground, unmarked vehicles—we’re always fluid,” Schmidt points out.
Mark McBride, a criminal law specialist practicing in California, doesn’t see any reason drivers should worry about using the TrapTap – or any similar app – so long as it isn’t a distraction. “The conservative, veiled concern about them is they are allowing people to get the drop on cops,” McBride says.
“People have a right to communicate, to free speech, and to assemble peaceably,” he notes, pointing out that those who get ticketed for flashing their high-beams as a speed trap warning are likely being fined for distracting other drivers, not for alerting them to a police presence.

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Acer this week introduced its new family of Chromebooks that wed performance with portability. The new laptops feature multi-core x86 microprocessors, 14” displays as well as aluminum chassis. Even in its most advanced configuration, the Chromebook 14 costs only $299. Acer traditionally positions its Chromebooks as solutions for students as well as customers on a budget, who need basic computing and do not want to invest a lot.
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The Acer Chromebook 14 (CB3-431) features, as the name suggests, a 14” IPS display with 1920×1080 or 1366×768 resolution as well as 170-degree viewing angles and an anti-glare coating. Unlike the Chromebook Pixel, Acer’s new laptops have 16:9 aspect ratio with all of its advantages for video viewing and disadvantages for Internet surfing. The model with higher resolution can work on one battery charge for 12 hours, whereas the Chromebook 14 with 1366×768 resolution boasts with up to 14-hour battery life on a single charge.
The Chromebook 14 laptops are based on Intel Celeron “Braswell” processors with two (Celeron N3060) or four (Celeron N3160/N3150) cores featuring the Airmont micro-architecture and up to 1.60 GHz clock-rate, Intel’s Intel Gen 9 graphics core with 12 execution units as well as up to 6 W TDP. Unlike Google’s Chromebook Pixel as well as Acer’s Chromebook 15, the Chromebook 14 cannot integrate a high-performance CPU featuring Broadwell micro-architecture, but that was certainly a trade-off between the price and portability.
Acer equips its Chromebook 14 laptops with 2 GB or 4 GB of LPDDR3 RAM (which is a good news for battery life), 16 GB or 32 GB of eMMC solid-state storage as well as a dual-band 2x2 MIMO 802.11ac Wi-Fi module with Bluetooth 4.2. The systems also feature a 720p webcam, a 3.5-mm mini jack, a microphone, stereo speakers, two USB 3.0 ports as well as an HDMI output.
The Chromebook 14 from Acer is 17 mm thick and weighs 1.55 kilograms, which is in line with many portable laptops. Acer claims that its fanless cooling system is enough to cool-down Intel’s Celeron CPU with a 6 W TDP, which is why the Chromebook 14 has no fans at all.
Acer did not say much about the price of its Chromebook 14. The launch model will be available next month with a Full HD display, 32 GB storage and 4 GB RAM starting at $299.99 in the U.S. and $399.99 (CAD) in Canada. Other Chromebook 14 models will sport lower amount of storage and RAM as well as a lower-resolution screen, but also a longer battery life. Their prices are unknown, but will clearly be different in different countries.

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The required PIV rating could be resolved by initially substituting a test diode with a high voltage rating, and scoping later.

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Texas’ most recent big deal was Toyota Motor Corp.’s decision to relocate its North American headquarters in Plano, generating roughly 4,000 jobs and $350 million in investments. Vranich estimates 3,000 of those jobs will come from California.

“This report echoes what businesses that relocate to Texas continue to say – they are sick and tired of being over-taxed and over-regulated and are making the economically sensible choice to move to Texas,” said John Wittman, deputy press secretary for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Office.

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“Gov. Abbott will go anywhere, including California, to bring businesses and jobs to the Lone Star State," Wittman said.

Texas state and city officials for years have touted the state’s more business-friendly environment, citing its fewer business regulations and lower labor costs, partly because Texas is a right to work state.

California, on the other hand, is one of the costliest states in which to do business, with expenses 20 percent to 35 percent higher than other states, Vranich says.

California’s corporate losses peaked at 302 in 2011, the same year that Texas’ gains from that state peaked at 47, or about 16 percent. In 2014, California lost 218 companies and Texas gained 41, or nearly 19 percent.

Vranich didn’t have estimates for this year, but said the trend continues.

California has lost more corporate headquarters, engineering firms and support services/call centers in the seven-year period. The state also lost more manufacturers; pharmaceutical and health care companies, and e-commerce, digital and online security firms than other industries.

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