I suspect there is a reason they don't actually show it functioning in the rain like you would expect an umbrella to be demonstrated. You would get soaked unless you happened to be riding the exact right speed to make the rain come down at the perfect angle. Also I can imagine the wind whipping that thing around like…

I think that your assumption about Cable not using data is probably incorrect. If a single HD datastream is roughly 1GB/hr, and they are broadcasting all 400 channels into my house, then that is 400GB/hr which I think is very unlikely, and a tremendous waste of bandwidth if they are, since I am watching a maximum of…

It would be more impressive if Kinect had actually been invented by MS instead of just bought by them.

You would probably have to digest a dumpster full of flies to get the power of a 9v battery like the one powering the device in the picture.

I wish that my Mac had an IOS emulator that let me run iPad apps on it.

I am pretty sure the reason they shred them is that to run a book through a sheet feed scanner you need to cut off the binding.

A defense from warheads from where? The 1980's? It really irks me that we are still spending billions building weapons to fight last century's battles.

That is just stupid. The whole point of smartphones is that they do more than just talk to people, and siri lets you use a voice interface to access those other features.

And the Galaxy Sii has the feature of getting about half the battery life of the iPhone.

Which approach is better? Which stores have lines going around the block in every major city?

Part of the reason that the Macbook Air is so fast with 4GB of ram is because the swap file is accessed so much faster than a regular hd.

go to the apple.com site and put recycle in the search box.

if the battery is dead no number of brake presses is going to stop you.

Is this even a problem that needs solving? Why make something that is mechanical simplicity at it's best into an expensive electronic kluge that needs a separate power supply? If you want to tweak brakes, then make them self adjusting.

Free tech support at any apple store.

if you get Applecare for the ipad for $79 you get the same "battery replacement" for 2 years for $20 less.

A microscope that can take stills and movies and perform image analysis as well as send the images via wifi and 3g for $100? Really? Tell me where I can buy one.

This guy has the best job ever.

"I hate being behind a bicycle, because their real-world performance (for the purpose of traveling on a road designed for cars) is so extremely low that it causes not only frustration, but a constant road hazard. "

They should come out with a watchface maker app. You choose any graphic, and you choose one of 10 types of hands and then itunes installs the face on your nano.