Can't you just blend the fruit in a regular blender then freeze it...?

Wow.

O' Canada!

Perfect.

All he's pointing out is that it's a difficult engineering problem - it's not a matter of just spraying a film on any old screen and calling it a day. And he said it as someone who obviously knows his materials science.. For this he gets skewered by sarcastic comments? How fucking old are you people, seriously?

Agree.

It is interesting to think about what constitutes "non-lethal" in this case. If this weapon were deployed in a battlefield scenario, its logical application would be to neutralize command and control equipment and data — communications systems, maps, etc. — toward the end of eliminating an enemy's situational…

There would be no NO, because there's no oxidation involved - these engines just vaporize the liquid N. And LN isn't as dangerous as you think, unless you immerse yourself in it. Your body is so hot in comparison that any LN that comes into contact with it vaporizes instantly, creating an envelope of gaseous nitrogen…

No oxidation, no NO2.

Definitely Kim Stanley Robinson. Also, I'd put forward Frederik Pohl and most of Arthur Clarke's work.

Actually, with current gyroscopic and display technology, yes, I do think VR has a chance of catching on, and I'd really, really like it to. Oculus Rift is one of the most exciting things to come down the gaming pipe in a long time... This particular product may or may not prove to be useful, but I hope needlessly…

I don't usually Giz-bash in the comments, but I agree. Suggestible people read snarky, dismissive articles like this — the next thing you know, Occulus Rift is going down the toilet.

Me too! Make the text small enough in Stanza or something, and you can fit a perfectly comfortably-sized page on an iPhone 4+ screen. Oddly enough, I'm the only person I know who can stand to do this...

Honestly, the main reason I own a smart phone is to have something to kill time with. I don't think I've been bored since 2008. I don't even mind going to the RMV anymore...

His point is that, regardless of the light's source (remember, even though you're not looking directly at the laser's aperture when you're looking at a laser beam in air, your eyes are still detecting the same light via reflections off dust particles), you don't *see* actual photons. You're only perceiving their…

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Exactly what I was thinking. You can give a kid 1 (or more, considering how many will inevitably get broken) of these instead of 6 or 7 expensive, heavy books...

Sure looks like electricity to me...

Ha!