If Apple endorses it, does that mean I have to hate it?

I have no wishes. With Vista, Microsoft appeared intent on preventing power users from doing what they did best, and subsequent iterations of the OS have not changed that.

Up until three years ago or so, every phone and device I got had a different connector. For that matter, most laptops still have incompatible power cords, even with the same manufacturer. Adding USB 3.1 to my collection of cords is not really a big deal.

If some of these were deployed to underreported areas such as Nigeria, where thousands are being slaughtered almost routinely, then I'm all for it.

Frankly, I'm more excited about the potential of Project Ara than any of these. USB 3.1 is the only one I am actually looking forward to.

So far, I see the "endoskeleton" as being the biggest problem here. Let's see some innovative frame designs, step away from the 'phone' aspect and turn this into a highly flexble, universal connectivity device/instrument/tool.

They blog tech news. They also blog fluff pieces to entertain their audience.

Why do people insist on calling the bloggers on Gizmodo journalists?

dang it! That's supposed to be moonbeams of hate. Stoopid phone wants to autocorrect me even after I tell it "this is what I want".

For something like twenty years I have been blaming cosmic rays for weird, random stuff going wrong in electronics and computers (it seemed a more likely thing than my friend's blaming "monogram of hate").

... and now I regret not talking about how I missed that blind date with a woman who later became a famous television personality because some daydreaming teen driving dad's Ferrari rear-ended me at the traffic light.

Looks like another niche product that will only take off when 'iGlass' hits the market...

It's like the polar opposite of Jack Handy...

What does tampering mean? What I read is that it won't explode if someone picks it up and plays with it.

I have read the entire article, and my objections stand: I see nothing that says these munitions are hack-resistant.

okay, I only got through the first part of the article (in part because I'm reading it on a phone), and I already have a major objection (aside from the rant-bait "new and improved" graphic): say your delivery system drops a bunch of these little explosive devices into a certain area. What percentage of these devices…

That is the awesome...

I'd start with so-called cavemen... there's this ongoing assumption that (with a few notable exceptions) every person who ever lived before the advent of the printing press was mentally deficient compared to 'modern' people.

I wonder about the level of realism experienced by these people: as a family member of someone who suffers voices telling them often nasty things, it is very hard sometimes to convince them that the voice they hear really is only in the head and not someone just out of sight.

whatever you do, don't sneeze...