That's pretty effective, more effective than blasting sections of track. Explosions leave small bits that can be replaced with a bit of work, but that spike could be set down for miles then lifted to continue the journey. It would be fast, easy, and a major pain to repair.

@Wwhat: the military phone systems are designed to survive anything. The original Autovon system was made for surviving a nuclear attack, and the newer DSN system is even more survivable: "The DSN Switching Subsystem consists of multifunction, stand-alone tandem, end office, and remote switching units.... they…

@Lupus_Yonderboy:

This

@Wwhat: Well why not in the US? The internet was basically created here. The only other logical place I can think of Sweden because of its large connectivity and neutral position.

hmm, I find them all a bit odd. Sketch 1 a bit too curved and 3 just looks plain blah, like an ugly rip-off iPhone/Nexus One.

@tineras: it's significant to me. I looked up the Library of Congress's size a while back and it's frigging BIG.

@CandyBacon: wait, just that stupid little controller? That's lame, you could just use the computer that it's connected to for that.

@Mongoose: oh yeah, I forgot about sales and later price reduction. Although by that time there will be 5 new devices to surpass this one :P

The main deciding point of this device will probably be battery life and usability.

@HeroOfTomorrow-the Untied States: actually, it looks the size of a DSi XL. People said that would be too large but it's fine.

@Tim Brady: yes, a bit, but with a multi-thousand dollar computer the least they could do is throw in a $40 PCI USB3.0 card.

@GrantRobertson: That flash card system looks cool. I'll have to see if it works with my style of learning.

@blyan: Never, they just make it better with the next model and make sure to up the price.

Video video! I want to see it tear down the screen and then crash into a mangled mess of steel, severing and skewering people in the process with the long protruding pieces.

@blyan: Apple could easily install a USB3.0 card, companies install expansion cards all the time to boost slightly aging computers. Apple could at least try to get their top-line computers up to snuff.

@ArmoredCavalry: Games are usually better with Flash. Flash is designed to be big and fancy and able to do tons of stuff. HTML5 needs to be limited in some sense otherwise browsers will have too much code, run slower in general, etc. HTML5 just isn't designed for games, whereas Flash is very nice and fairly easy to…

@Gators15: yes, those price are correct and battery hold.

@Salamanderjuice: Ah ok. I've been hearing such a big raucous about USB3.0 vs Firewire S3200 that I figure they were still pushing it.

This kicks the crap out of my image-based Javascript Pacman.