They drive some miles just to get delivered, off the line, off the boat, etc. Doesn't necessarily mean someone test drove or joyrided.

we've all seen people taking photos with their iPads in public, so they're already lugging them around.

Great review. I'd love to see more writing like this on Giz.

Stormlight Archive. So gooooood....

Not trying to fight, but, once I went LTE I could never go back. It's SO much faster. Even if you don't have it at home, when you travel it's amazing. Plus, who loads mobile sites any more?

What exactly does "official" mean? When I go check iCloud storage plans on my phone it has the old rates. Is this iOS 8 only? Is it not fully rolled out? Gizmodo, do some research and let us know!

Any breaks if we already paid for an upgrade? Or do we have to wait a year until renewal?

it shouldn't be a surprise. the iPod Touch is usually a good indicator for thickness of the next iPhone gen, and it has a protruding lens. I hate it too, but it's not a dealbreaker. I'll get it and if it really sucks then I'll put a case on it. I don't often use my phone while it's flat on a table, so I think it will…

I've taught a few friends/girlfriends to drive stick. It's never easy on the car, but I think if you teach them to be too light on the gas instead of heavy you'll just stall a lot instead of burn the clutch. Easiest method I've had is just have them slowly let the clutch out from a stop with no gas, to find that…

Why the Baja hate? You could get a turbo manual, not that expensive ($22k?), the bed is a decent size...

They should have an option to orient the controls to you. So when you push on the top of the screen it goes away from you and bottom of the screen it comes towards you. They have enough sensors to do inertial navigation, and it would be far more intuitive since it's so symmetrical.

Any of the badass cars in Ronin. S8, 6.9, or E34 M5

they could rename to "kick the bucket list"

do=>due

Seems like a really bad idea to have the wrong plates on your car. Not something you want to mess around with.

If you want to do it as a hobby project I'd start with an FPGA. A board with a micro (ARM) and an FPGA on it would be ideal for prototyping, and you wouldn't need an ASIC until you really want to do mass production to keep costs down.

I only read the abstract, but it sounds like they're not using a laser and are looking at a known star. I would guess this has the limitation of needing the reference star in your FOV, or at least nearby, so that the atmospheric changes are similar to the actual thing you want to look at, right?

You'd think it would trickle down, but I doubt you're going to have a high power sodium laser in your backyard, so that's probably an issue. Perhaps there are ways to use AO without a reference laser though?

I went to a talk on AO wrt terrestial telescopes a few months ago and it was really cool. The speaker was working on adaptive optics for the outgoing laser beam, which sounded like the next logical step. What will be after that?

I think Clarkson said something similar in the recent special.