Should we throw iPad/iPhone/Touch guy under the bus too, or does that get special treatment "because it's got so much market share"?

I consider myself a gamer. I wince when the generic name for a controller was "a paddle" and a gaming device was "a nintendo". My seven year old boys correct me every time I make a reference to their "Gameboys". "DAD. They're 3DSes!"

I have a friend that runs a Pizza shop in the Twin Cities, and he uses thes boxes. I saw it for the first time this week, and was floored by how awesome they are.

I work at a large faceless corporation, and this is one of the issues I struggle with, constantly. Not the "how do I get reliable backups", but the reliance of massive functions upon a single person/operator. Procedures that are written as "Please contact Jim Smith" are a personal bugaboo.

I had the pleasure of playing a game of tennis against Mr. Baer on the Brown Box, about 15 years ago. It was an awesome experience for me.

I remember the following link from a few years ago - A turbine shredded itself when the braking system failed.

Movin' on up!

Do I hear 7?!

I still love the sparklemotion strip on the side of the G1 kindle.

I can't translate this to newspapers, exactly- but we've got a press at work that's capable of printing 140 192-page books a minute. That includes the time to cut and fold them into signatures. It's astounding. It can also change plates on the fly.

I still get a fast heartrate just by thinking about having the SS come i.

Would this thing be affected by TV-B-Gone?

@CowLion: 9v batteries lasted quite awhile. It's not really different than wireless controllers today, other than the fact that the receiver was external to the console. (and thus required a power source.)

@pewpewpew: I just lost any cred I have as a game geek. Yes, Matell intellivision. Whoops.

@CowLion: From a 1983 magazine article available at:

@pewpewpew: Third Column, under "mattel"

@Kat Hannaford:

@khetti: I'm guilty of eyeing the knockoffs as well. Part of me wants to, but then I feel that there's benefits to supporting Herman Miller, Vitra, Knoll, etc- customer service is exemplary, for starters. (that's factored into the price- it's not the people making it, it's the infrastructure around the business as…

@Zendax: The initial setup is amortized over the lifetime of those molds, sure- but there's artisans invoolved in the process from beginning to end, even afterwards. It's not totally automated.

That looks like a lot of craftsmanship to me- not sure why this doesn't justify the price?