@Duane: I salute you - You always know where your towel is.

Eh. They can cheat, as long as it keeps bringing faster and fancier products to market. Especially if it reaches the point where I can buy a chassis, screen, CPU separately and swap, upgrade, etc. Probably wishful thinking, but maybe one day. For the enthusiast market at least.

I love how minimal these things are getting. When I think back to the multiple layers of boards in old dumbphones I opened up, then look at the few tiny little boards with so few discrete components. Much longer and we'll just be looking at one fat SoC wired to a battery, screen and antenna. Could do wonders for…

I see lots of messages jumping to the defense of AshleyMadison and challenging the "ban" on the grounds of personal responsibility. They all seem to be missing the point — Google and Facebook are making a decision not to associate their products and image with the services that AshleyMadison proudly advertise. That's…

Title exaggeration. Samsung played this "world's thinnest" game with themselves back in 07-08 and rolled out model after model that kept shaving off a bit more thickness. I had one of the earlier models, and I'm fairly certain it was 7mm. Later ones got as thin as 5.9mm. They were very nice phones, as far as…

@Decio: I still don't get this one (which I hear often). The URL bar is the search box, in Chrome. Which is also why I've got an emphatic NO towards any suggestion of eliminating my wonderful all-in-one box.

I missed that implication, but it's a fair point. I was picturing it more as a home-garage tool - I certainly remove more wheels at home than on the road, for patching tires or working on the car.

Simple solution has a simple problem, too (according to the video) - battery drain from the high-torque usage. Now, I suspect that might have something to do with using a cheap or tired drill because the task really isn't long enough to drain a good one. But a simple solution to that for anyone, good drill or not —-…

Pressing my tongue to the roof of my mouth usually cures it for me. Of course, if my tongue is very cold too, it doesn't cut it. Sometimes curling it so the underside touches the roof is better. Avoiding getting too much ice cream / frozen drink directly on the roof of my mouth almost always prevents them too.

As everyone else said, well handled all around. Also, need to say it — This is what comes from using HootSuite as a casual Twitter app. I understand it has some perks for the corporate user, but ugh.. Typical corporate app, its a complete train wreck for anyone who doesn't need the bells and whistles. Haven't seen…

I'm hard pressed to read 2" tall digits 2' from my head without my glasses, so unfortunately my wife's alarm across the bed wasn't helping me. As for brightness - that is a definite perk of the SAMOLED screen. The illuminated parts don't get very dim, but the background is definitely black. And Bedside lets you mix…

AJ Jacobs is not a techie, obviously. I can't think of the last time I *listened* to a voice mail. I do enjoy fairly accurate transcriptions sent to my phone within moments of receiving the message though.

My solution? Bedside app on my phone. It's fairly dim on the lowest levels (even on my Galaxy S, which doesn't go nearly as dim as any of my older phones). Plus it goes blank after 60s. All it takes is the slightest tap or nudge on the nightstand though, and it wakes back up briefly. Keeps the room real dark.

@Kaelri: Well, I agree with the last line there. Mad props for for what you do, the Rainmaker stuff generally looks awesome, just shared my thoughts on it.. :)

Pretty, but I still sorta fail to understand the point. On my PC, visible desktop area is wasted space. I sometimes reboot after updates to be surprised at my wallpaper - I sometimes set one when I see a cool pic and promptly forget it exists because my monitors (three now) are all covered in fullscreen or tiled…

So what NASA needs is a Kickstarter.

The mother-in-law has this on her HP. I can't stand it. It isn't any more sensitive than a regular trackpad, and you have absolutely no feedback about whether you're on the pad or not. Utter piece of shit.

@GeicoCaveman: Oh yeah, I generally like vent mounts over windshield, just wanted to make the battery point. You've got an effective counterpoint too. :) I'm running a few cheap ebay batteries, charge them external and swap when needed. Only way to keep the smartphone addiction going. :D

@pintowgn73: I've got a Contour, an Impreza and a few Jetta's on the "close the slats" side. Funny, I like the idea of a separate knob. But I've always admired the engineering smarts of the slats - one part, vectors and blocks the air stream - clever bit of work.

@pintowgn73: I haven't ever seen a car that would let you turn off the vent while keeping the slats horizontal so the clip could grab them. Cool if you've got it, just a bit fancier than I'm used to — all of mine have turned off a vent by turning the vent slats vertical. Seals it shut and gives you no spot to clip…