On pictures and video alone, my vote would be for the AL13 Aluminum Bumper. However at $80 it's way too expensive for me to seriously consider!

Pick up a cheap USB IR receiver from eBay and a Logitech Harmony 650 for $80. Yes, you could find an IR receiver which comes with a remote (indeed, I have one) but it'll be cheap and nasty. Plus the Harmony will control your TV too.

To be fair, every industry has a number of manufacturers who go from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous. For every insane watch there is, I can show you a insane car, insane computer case, insane mobile phone and so on...

I can't tell for sure without knowing the exact model, but I'd hazard a guess that it's battery powered and uses a microchip to calculate the date, month and year - which is why it's significantly cheaper. True mechanical perpetual calendars are hideously complicated to make, hence the higher price tag.

You should package these up into a Windows 7 theme pack for people to download. There are quite a few websites out there that explain how to do this (like this one) and Microsoft have a good description of the theme file format.

Just found this: "C.O.S.C. is Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres, the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute, which is the institute responsible for certifying the accuracy and precision of wristwatches in Switzerland. The COSC standard for mechanical chronometers (i.e., precision timepieces) is -4/+6…

I've got a Maurice Lacroix "Les Classiques Chronographe Automatique" and it loses about a 2 minutes a month. This isn't a big deal for me, especially since I need to update it at the end of every month that isn't 31 days long (so 5 out of the 12). No mechanical watch will be as accurate as one that is battery powered.…

Those lowest paid workers (at Foxconn) also work on products by Acer, Cisco, Dell, HP, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and Visio.

It's not like they are being rewarded for failure ... unlike some other industries ...