@njgreenwood: Powerpoint is a horrible tool, even the best looking powerpoint 'presentations' are dull and muddled.

@Yarrr: whatever slide-show tool is convenient, usually just arrange my images in a folder and open 'em in windows photo viewer thingy, it's actually a fairly powerful tool once you get the hang of it, but there are also tons of free and simple tools out there if you need to do anything more complex.

@Gravity: C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

@mchex: If you have text in your presentation slides that isn't part of a graph or other visual component, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

By using powerpoint, you've already decided to produce a boring, terrible, more often than not confusing presentation.

Even if it's completely impossible for the machine itself to save images.

Timed traffic lights are terrible enough without being confusing. What we need are traffic lights able to sense the actual flow of traffic and change accordingly. Or maybe we just need traffic circles.

I doubt this will go any further than the various planes to make breathalyzers required to start all cars

I can't believe I want to play a game based solely on its character creator now, but 90 seconds in and I'm already sold.

@mouche: MST3K reference fail

How does she breathe?

It seems like you could buy essentially the same thing a lot cheaper from Ikea.

Isn't this kind of 'hype' the entire reason for the 'Disney Vault'?

That's nice, Gmail already does this and more with google voice.

meh, it's a black-hole, not sexy green chicks, Good for them I suppose, but not terribly interesting.

Crashing it into a field just means it doesn't have a chance to burst into flame on the street.

can I still email with people that have facebook email from my gmail account? Then why the fuck does size matter?

@Sidetalker: The gamblers ruin is a well known statistical thingy (technical term thar) which is basically a set of mathematical proofs of why you can't beat the house over any arbitrarily long series of probabilistic games, even if the games are statistically 'fair' (such as flipping an evenly weighted coin) because…

obviously this doesn't include shipping, or an amortization of R&D costs, marketing or software...

@Dan-Forever: eh, it's a fair point, I thought about including that but I was already getting a bit long winded :P.