"Electrified Gel"? You mean Liquid Crystal. This is, in essence, one big, single pixel, LCD display.

"...captain of a mining ship, with no-one but his computer to talk to..." Sounds to me like someone's been watching too much Red Dwarf. Or perhaps Silent Running.

Why does this device even exist? If you want good coffee, you don't want it perked (Which is what the K-Cup machine does), and if you want to use your own coffee, why not buy one of the many single-cup coffeemakers out there? And, what's more, what the heck is the deal with the COST of these things! It's…

Winter is much better. If you're cold, you can always put on more clothes. But there's no physical way you can take off your skin and lay in your bones, at least not and stay alive that is.

Rotting in a hole where it belongs, along with emacs. gedit is there if you need text editing, and if you need to do so on the command line, then it's nano forever!

I believe the regular term for it would be "Anodising"

VOTE: Google Docs Spreadsheet

VOTE: Google Docs Spreadsheets

What is he being arrested for? He legitimately bought those machines, which then made them his property. At that point, he is then legally allowed to do anything he likes with it, as he has signed no contract or agreed to no license. He then reverse engineered the system to make it compatible with newer games (Which…

Something like this, then: [www.homedepot.ca]

[www.asseenontv.com]

As mentioned earlier, the armour pictured is for jousting, so your man parts would be covered by 3/4 tons of steel and horseflesh. That good enough for you?

Arrows which just bounce off the heavy metal armour. If he was using a crossbow, then perhaps, but arrows from a shortbow like that don't go through plate armour, which is why they wore it over the earlier chainmail. Now the English Longbow (With 180lbs pull strength), that would go through plate, but you couldn't…

The HD movies that are stored on your hard-drive are compressed, so USB2.0's 420MBit/s (52 MByte/s) bandwidth isn't too much of an issue. But for raw, uncompressed video, you have 1920x1080x32x60 = 3,981,312,000bits/s or 3,796MBit/s. *9* *times* USB2.0's maximum theoretical bandwidth. And even then, you're going to…

From what I understood, it was pretty much stated that all the great advances in technology since the Roswell crash came from reverse-engineering the crashed ship, including Velcro and the IC. With that in mind, it's not that much of a leap to think that they'd developed tools (with the technology they reverse…

Except that the "Flying" interface was a real thing. It's called "Fsn" (Pronounced "Fusion"), and was made by SGI for IRIX systems as a experimental app. [en.wikipedia.org]

Don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it...

Or the lack of oxygen/air pressure at altitude. Methinks someone's been watching too much "Fifth Element"

Probably because Greenbox (the patent holders) most likely won't license their patents (at a reasonable rate), and thus it is cheaper to produce the (un-patent-encumbered) "Traditional" pizza box design.

Behold: THE FUTURE!