@szrimaging: If you need to ask this question, then you need to quit using FB and Twitter. At least for a while.

As I wrote when this showed up on Kotaku, this looks very much like just a depth threshold, not any actual visual recognition.

@Ejia: "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components…

Doesn't look like 'hand recognition' so much as just a distance threshold. Neat demo, but rather limited and impractical for anything else.

@architectureplusone001: Obviously there are disadvantages to any introduction of mass-production (which is what we're really talking about). I'm not denying that. I'm wondering if those disadvantages really outweigh the benefits in the vast majority of circumstances.

@architectureplusone001: Then the obvious question is:

She forgot to mention the most important measure: how much advertising is the publisher buying?

Looks like they underestimated the compressive strength of the concrete in the stack. Oops.

@EljhHck: Send you something on the conversion list cheaper than the original price and give you a gift certificate for the difference. "Magic"

@Canoehead: Yes, I can.

@Canoehead: You can't do voice recognition on a "simple audio sensor".

What a beautiful wavelet, captured in time. That's not just a 'weak point,' there's some fairly beautiful mathematics behind that crinkle.

@dsprehe89: Are you asking that question in earnest, or are you attempting to criticise the device with rhetorical questions? I don't really know, so I'm having a hard time deciding how to reply.

I'm sorry, this is retarded. Cocoa grows on trees.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: No. It's not a terribly new technology; it's an adaptation of heat pipes, which have been in use for over 50 years. The kinks have been worked out already.

@masterofTHUMBS: HP used to be one of the greatest engineering companies around. They made high quality, specialized equipment that was better than anything else in the world... and more expensive too. In many ways, the American high-tech industry was built on a foundation built by HP.

@Anaphylaxor: Comment of the day.

@wild7s: Check the highway between Camp Searchlight and Novac.

@davidmeans: Talk about a tough audience. You must be incredibly bored all the time.

So it's a heat pipe.