The $50 price point per unit is for two reasons... first, you have to figure on tech infrastructure costs associated with the transition, so unit price represents only a fraction of the total cost.

It's a great idea, but also a simultaneously bad one.

Lutron makes a remote dimmer you can plug any lamp you like into. I have one in my bedroom and it's awesome.

Back yard? This thing belongs in the front yard!

Jonah Goldberg wrote a really good article about Groundhog Day for National Review today:

Oh dear lord I certainly hope not. Yuck.

Right... and end up with a healthy company that can operate within it's means and won't require a taxpayer bailout. Win/win the way I see it.

Oh lordy, this again.

Patricide always makes for good jokes. Pretty much rule number one of comedy.

No, you have it slightly wrong. He had access to the time machine all along, and said he was going to do it... and as soon as he decided to do it, he disappeared because that timeline had been put into motion and his existence ceased. Apparently the time machine had just been in the shop the whole time.

You know, it wasn't too long ago that we'd have been proud of her for knowing all those logos.

I've literally never seen worse drivers than in LA. Every time I go there I witness at least two accidents.

Why does Sam Biddle write about military technology? Not only does he have obvious disdain for anything at all related to the military, he also has zero technical understanding... or at least he tries very hard to make it sound that way.

A car on fire is not a car exploding. I'd like to see a car explode at 1000fps.

I'm too much of a control freak to ever trust autocorrect enough to use it, and I have fairly large fingers. I can use the touchscreen on my iPad well enough, but small devices are almost impossible for me to use efficiently. I just want buttons. That's all.

Cops aren't allowed to actually engage in physical intimacy while on the job.

Ugh.

That's not an ad. That looks like a slide from an internal marketing/development presentation.

Yeah that's not engrish. That's how internal presentations generally sound.

"Imagine how many transgendered homeless kids could have been fed with what they spent on that stupid four-wheeled penis extension. That man should be castrated."