Well...my name does have 5 letters, so you're close there! :P

It'll still be very difficult to get it to recognize all kinds of finger positions in different orientations from a distance. Something strapped to your wrist that moves with it will always have an easier time processing it (and thus, will be cheaper to make).

...am I the only one who thinks that sentence should only be spoken by Sheldon Cooper or Amy Farrah Fowler?

Lucky mammoth.

True. Manipulative people suck.

So...you're scolding sampling bias while pointing to this one website as evidence for your accusations of sampling bias? Hmm....

Or Jeff is just bad at choosing anonymizing usernames :P

Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on this one. The only thing complicated is his premeditated cheating. He had to know what he was doing if he lied about his girlfriend to this other girl, and now he's trying to cover it all up? Pathetic. Guys like this give the rest of us a bad image.

My girlfriend and I do the long-distance thing, and although it's hard, it's not impossible to convey what you think, feel, and mean over a text. You just have to be descriptive and not worry about sending 3-or-4-page texts if need be.

Ah, okay. I was about to mention the 100km line as well. So it's not really a space jump, just a stratosphere jump. I am disappoint :( .

So Kinect + Digits = Full motion sensing including fingers? Cool.

That meme...it's preventing kids from learning about virtual photons and the explanation for magnetism that's been around a loooongggg time now. You're depriving children of their education. SHAME ON YOU, SIR.

Finally, the hover text is included! That should be mandatory WHENEVER an XKCD comic is posted!

Let's see...what do I use handwriting for?...

Then they are a douche. Simple question, simple answer.

I'm not sure you understand the concept of cost-effectiveness...

Three wavelengths that together span the entire visible spectrum. If you block red, green, and violet light, that's a huge chunk of the eye's visible information gone.

Again, there were two other links in this comments thread alone. Look at those as well.

What the...Who the hell are you? XD

I wouldn't want a pilot flying blind. Sorry, I don't trust instruments as much as eyesight.