@Lucalain: I remember when our school went from TV carts to having a big-screen video projector. That was frickin' sweet. Except for that darn stuck magenta pixel.

At least it wasn't Nickelback. The wolves probably would have died.

Wow, sounds like Slacker, sharing features and all.

Guess the Blue Marble and the other shot I have from the ISS looking down count as a place off in the distance...

Another flood-related disaster from a few years ago... over 230 pinball machines and other arcade games, some rare and one of a kind, destroyed.

Hey, I'm due for a new phone, and I'm gonna spend $199 anyway, so I'm not out anything. My contract's up now and my phone is on the blink, so I need a phone anyway. My 2 year deal will be out before VZW offers LTE here, so I'm out nothing if the iPhone 5 in June has LTE. So I'm buying the damn phone.

The $1 cables from 1SaleaDay are working great for me and my parents. No dropouts, and they handle 1080p perfectly fine.

Only problem I would see with the 24-hour tryouts is that there would be a lot of abuse in certain categories. Stuck in line at the DMV? 'Rent' a game for free...

@Nitesh2: Try shooting handheld for three hours straight with a DSLR, then tell me that a dedicated camcorder is obsolete.

@xennex: Yeah, really. I figured SOMEONE would notice that, but everyone's too busy kvteching about whether or not it looked like a TIE fighter or the Death Star.

Now they just need to get one that can clean the back/underside of the toilet too. Hate having to hug it to get those hard-to-reach spots.

@PathRifter: Unless it was a Michael Bay movie, of course. Then it would have exploded like a gasoline tanker.

I don't use one much. The first time I drove to Vegas (by myself to boot) I did the whole 6 hour trip by memory from Google Maps. Same for every time I ever drove with the then-wife to Oregon (16+hours). I really only used the routing on the GPS to know how much longer I'm stuck in the god-forsaken car.

@fastactingrelief: I'm shocked there aren't more posts with that tag.

@Evning Kirk: Yeah, so is Spiderman. It's like the actors fall right in your lap.

Wow, now you can be pretentious AND shoot video while maintaining focus.

@pjc: Yeah, it's not like the thing's waterproof or anything.

I miss FoxTrot. Our paper won't carry the Sunday version. Apparently they find Prince Valiant and Ziggy more interesting.

At my last job directing the local TV news, we actually did that live on air with one of our photogs in fire gear in the burn room. Our fire department was pretty cool with us on demos. The live watermelon detonations in our parking lot (4th of July safety) were a hit too.