@Brought_to_you_by_CarlsJr: And how to make a small enough computer that'll fit in the display.

@The Lab: They made drawings, yeah but they're not worthless. The concepts provide a technological goal for the next few years or decades, like airplanes were in the 19th century.

@goodl1fe: I want this stuff embedded in my glasses, my walls, my coffee table, my mirrors, my fine china plates... Augmented reality life.

@Ducttape-Guru: And after that, all we'll need is super-cheap prices so we can use it as wallpaper.

@kake81: What? The Internet isn't futuristic enough?

@genis1: Well, how much would the modern non-flexible iPhone display have cost in 1990?

@The homeless vampire: And for the baristas there's another word: groooaan!

@tucker augie'ben'doggy: Well, jailbroken phones tend to be a bit slower than non-JB phones. Maybe that was one of the problems SJ is talking about?

@markbe: ...If you were only 3 years old when win 98 came out, you're still young- as a matter of fact you're still a bay. Heck so am I, and I was an old man of 7 when win98 was released.

All these childhood memories are from the late 80s and early 90s. Are there no gizmodo writers who remember breaking their spiffing new color tv, scratching their dad's favorite vinyl record or figuring out how to play Pong?

How on earth is motion control gimmicky? A gimmick is like eyecandy- a small extra feature that doesnt really do anything. But motion control is revolutionary. Like it or not, full-body motion control has the potential to profoundly change current gaming conventions, since most current games are not made for it.

According to wikipedia, LA at this time had about 650,000 people.

@jetRink: Looks to me NK is at the level of the 1880, with gaslights and a single tiny dot of light.

@verspasian: What do you mean? There are many high detail photos from the 19th century, though they are, of course, b&w.

@heroineworshipper: Well, in 1908, quite a few buildings already had electric lighting. At the very least they had gaslight, and streetlights (which may have been electrified).

@fratto: A better plan would be to get rid of the boring modern buildings before they become historical.

@devianaut: No, he didn't mean the voices were small(tiny), he meant they were canned, as if they were coming out of a tin(tinny).

@Pursan: Prison has been about rehabilitation since the 19th century... It didn't work.

@SquaIor: But not girls because...?