@rolsenrob: Oh, don't get me wrong, I love my DS too and appreciate really well integrated and well developed use of the touch screen. The games that are good for it are fantastic, but I have a hard time finding the good ones among so many bad ones. I've got somewhere between 25 and 30 DS games and a good 10 or 15…

@comodidit: I actually use a SW629 for camping/backpacking. Never had to shoot anything with it but came close three times and was happy I had it.

@Arken:

For about $800 new you can get a ruger alaskan in .454 casull.

I think it would be cool if we kept improving graphics and did new things, but at the same time still continued to make games from other genres whose gameplay may have been limited by technology. I pine for a good sidescroller, click quest, hell... even some modern Interactive Fiction would be cool.

I do like my regular DS lite quite a bit.

@uu_ugene: HAHA! indeed.

I can't wait to drink this at breakfast with my morning after-bender bacon-in-a-can:

I tested my mother by emailing her this link:

Oh man, I had this game! It was actually half decent.

It's not working for me. I can still see them changing when they move. :(

yep:

@Antubis is nominal: it's probably a PIC programmed as a clock which outputs the hour and minutes on two ladder network D/A converters as scaled voltage which controls those two gauges.

I could quite literally build something like that from parts I have on my desk right at this very moment...

This has a beautiful aesthetic. If I had an iphone I would consider one in spite of the expense.

@aak7268: i think you just won the internet with that.

eh... not so sexy.

@TheLostVikings: just looked up that article. If you can keep people comfortable up to 10 rpm as they show you could totally build something with a reasonable radius to get 1G. that's pretty exciting!

@corpore-metal: Oh I agree completely that it is impossible without massive amounts of energy.