Ironically they did test the interface, because it's based on Windows 8. It was a heavy handed corporate decision, I'm sure, to model the interface that way because if they objectively looked at the dismal sales numbers for Windows 8 this interface never would have happened.

I am a disappointed owner... there are so many crap things about my console including the very regular crashing that all three of my launch games still exhibit (AC4, BF4, DR3).

Because the image is automatically generated by a morphing program (though I don't know which), and some details didn't make it.

720? Oh wait.. because of the resolution.. and the revolutions... clever.

Not Link, Mario!

I would say that injecting a second chemical into your system could dissolve the foam, but polyurethanes are generally difficult to dissolve. Albeit this is a "we have two minutes to keep you from dying" solution, and would give a lease on life that a soldier would otherwise not have. A duct-tape fix, if you will.