If you had told me a week ago that Vizio would be the most interesting CES story this year, I would have probably thought you were on acid. Surprises can happen!

With Kodak more or less about to go the way of the dodo, how hard would it be for Apple to buy them and end up getting around the lawsuit while also gaining the patents that are being sued over?

Exactly. At worst I was out fifty bucks but had a couple of nanos to dink around with.

Well, everything eventually gets replaced with something else. It's kind of the inevitable march of technology. But I'm fairly certain that Dragon is a growing product that we're going to be seing more and more of. Besides, I'm willing to bet that these voice controlled TVs will still come with a remote of some kind.

If I were to buy one of these, it would be for a home theatre with cool theatre chairs and black walls and build in speakers and such. If/when that becomes a reality, I fully plan to install a motorized/remote controlled curtain that adjusts itself inward over the sides of the screen for 16:9 formatted movies.

I'll be holding on to my 16:9 TV, but I certainly plan on buying something like this when I build my real home theatre. Only movies. All the time. Of course, I suppose if I want to watch something in 16:9 I could rig up a motorized (and remote controlled of course) curtain that would slide over the edges.

I was actually contemplating rigging something like this up myself upon reading that Vizio was bringing these to market.

I'm thinking that the application will either need a specific interaction from the user (hold down a specific button on the remote), or it will monitor the audio signal from the TV and compare it against the incoming audio data.

Because Dragon is going to disappear?

I dunno that the cell phone part is dumber. Laptops tend to go in bags that get handled pretty rough. My cell phone gets carried in my pocket near parts of mybody that I treat more cautiously than most others. And the larger a sheet of glass, the more likely it seems it would shatter with mishandling.

My toddler yanked my MacBook Pro off the table and on to the floor. It got a dent in the aluminum, but it continued (and continues 3 years later) to work just fine.

"Sharp looking." Yeah... I see what you did there. ;)

Somewhere there's a boardroom full of Sharp (the company, not a descriptor of their mental prowess) sitting around talking about how they love their 150" TVs, but what they really need is something their man servant can haul out to the jacuzzi when they're entertaining.

Well, I'm pretty sure they've been calling one drive or another the SuperDrive since 1988. There was a point in time where the SuperDrive was for reading every 3.5 floppy disk. They just carried the name over when they switched to CD/DVD RW drives as a standard on all Macs in 2001.

My reason for buying an iMac (all-in-one of my personal choice): a 27" LED backlit IPS display with an included computer for just a little more than I would have paid for the monitor by itself.

I agree. The all-in-one is nice looking, but it isn't exactly Mac like. Which is fine. I'm glad it isn't.

When did Steve Jobs claim to have invented the mouse? Never. He made it pretty clear in his narration of the events in his biography that he didn't invent the mouse.

The iMac's tilt (and I believe height, I'll have to check when I get a chance) can be adjusted.

There's nothing wrong with wanting something to look nice, just like there's nothing wrong with not being concerned about how something looks. Some people place a high value on asthetics because it brings them enjoyment. That doesn't make them anymore a bad person or worthy of your contempt.

Okay... Now I feel like a brainiac. ;)