So it costs 12 dollars and requires plenty of tools and work?

I bought a little speaker unit very similar in execution at a store called Five Below. It has a standard audio plug, two speakers on the outside, and a place for 2 AA batteries that power it's amplifier. It zips up to keep your phone or mp3 player secure.…

It's a generalization, but it's not inaccurate. People, in general, are very ignorant. Not only in this case, but in all cases.

...if you think the look and feel of the iPhone is "mores betterers", that can be easily mimicked in Android using launchers, unlock screen apps, icon packs, custom keyboards, etc.

I hate how cheap Android devices are brought up as a bad thing. They're a GOOD THING. It means options for the consumer. If I want a cheap device with a 3 inch screen and a physical keyboard, I can get it. If I want an expensive device with a 6 inch screen, I can get that too. But people like to pick up a current…

How is iOS "more intuitive" than Android? They're basically the same. Nothing truly needs to be customized on either platform, but iOS's features that may need to be adjusted are all easily located by clicking the "settings" button... EXACTLY the same as Android. The only difference is that Android hides the app list…

This is a flawed argument. Usability on Android apps is there just as much as Apple. There is poorly made software on either platform, but most apps you'd want to use on both are entirely usable. The only place where iOS really beats Android with regard to apps is in games; iOS still gets a lot of good exclusive…

The video is silly and it looks like the presenter doesn't really know technology (one of the modules is "speed"...?), but the idea of modular computing works in other areas and I don't think it's unreasonable to wish for it in the computers we keep in our pockets. Certainly, phones should be able to be about as…

In reality, such a modular design wouldn't be wholly open like that. It'd be more like a notebook or desktop PC: the expensive guts would be inside a case.

I was speaking of the console platform. By selling a version of a portable console as a home console for the TV, they can hit both markets with one platform. The Playstation Vita brand can be both a portable device and a home console. That's what I meant.

You were being closed-minded about consoles. Some consoles are portable, some are not. But some can be BOTH and having the option for the consumer can work in the manufacturer's favor as well as the buyer. I know I spent probably hundreds of hours playing on my Super Gameboy and I loved being able to play Pokemon…

So Nintendo was stupid when they made the Super Gameboy? The N64 controller pack for gameboy games? The GBA player for GameCube? Giving people an inexpensive choice to play portable games on a TV is not inherently stupid. It gives consumers the chance to try out games they'd otherwise maybe not buy, it expands the…

I don't know why the Wii U doesn't have this baked in already. I mean, with the tablet controller being a second screen, it's basically like a not-portable DS already, why can't it play DS/3DS games?

The WiiU tablet controller is semi-portable. Wasn't that part of the point of using that different design for a controller: to play some games in the tablet apart from using up the TV.

I can't think of a single case wherein I would need a semi-permanent way of forcing a door to stay open when I just as much wouldn't want the door to be there at all in the first place. If the door is never shut, and should never be shut, why is there a door at all? Why not pop the hinges off and have an open doorway?…

Batgirl won't be playable, nor did I see any female characters for the thugs.

I'm still a little disappointed at the reveal of Amon's identity. I was hoping they'd play it straight and (spoilers?) he really would have been an Anti-Avatar chosen by the spirits. It would have fit well with Korra's failure as a spiritual Avatar and it would have done well to set up the "Spirits" book that we all…

Did they? It was taken away in the book 2 finale when Aang took too long to finish things and Azula struck him down. Only when he got it back in the end of book 3 and used it to trounce the super-powered Firelord did it seem like an "instant win", except that for the conflict, winning the fight wasn't the question.…

I do this with a phone charger that I sometimes need to use while at work. It ensures I don't leave my phone or my personal charging cable at work. Everyone who I ever talk to about it says something like "oh, that's smart", but I'm still the only person I've ever seen do it.

The idea is more of a "hey that's neat" idea than one which is meant to be better.

I took my obsolete Motorola Droid and repurposed it for music while I shower. I also gave it a new launcher that only had buttons for various music apps, picked a live wallpaper that changed according to local weather, and made the face of the thing always show the time. The light of the screen even worked well as a…