I'm scared to go down the produce aisle now.

Seriously, old MF devices are usually really cheap (inexpensive) and hardly make any margin in sales. There is absolutely NO incentive to keep owners of such devices happy or to try to update drivers to keep a model alive.

"The Name's The Thing"

Bah.

I'm glad that it appears that most Giz readers would agree. Flaming the photographer is more than immature.

My 4-yr-old daughter plays almost everything on a regular basis - leapster, VSmile, GBA, DS, Wii, GameCube, 360, PC and a bunch of those single game joysticks you plug right into the TV - anything that's fun. She can have as much fun on her "educational preschool" games as on the more difficult puzzle, action, party games (she doesn't do FPS yet :-).

Frankly, I think my kid has learned as much from the "right" games as from any other venue. Preschool kind of takes it slow (if you have kids, you know what I mean), but kids can learn some things much faster with the right motivation. My kid loves games, so I'll get her anything that provides good games - ESPECIALLY if they are fun games that will actually help her learn.

Where are the zombie shooting games for the Wii?!?

Sure, lazy parents will "abuse" technology for selfish ends, but that doesn't diminish the value of the technology for its intended purpose. This is going to be a big seller, and I'll bet that it does in fact help many children learn to read quicker - it's all pattern recognition, but some(thing)one has to tell you what the pattern means.

This year I will finally build my next PC like I've been threatening to do for years. Maybe it won't be obsolete in 2 months. Maybe.

Problem is that facial recognition of cooperative subjects is not that useful... They will have to change the typical 2-shot arrest photo record to 30 shots from several angles.

However, I don't think it would take much to boil you in your skin which of course would result in blood everywhere (not at all sure about that blood-to-water thing).

Oh, and exactly what sort of omniscience do you have to claim that Jesus could not have changed blood to water? Since blood is about 83% water, it seems like quite an easy feat frankly (certainly for the one who created it in the first place or don't you read your bible)?

Where's the fun? I want to build something awesome. Maybe I can mount this on my Mindstorms 'bot to give it mobility and purpose ?

A bit dark, too, even for a snow scene. I think the RED is an awesome device - I don't think this footage shows that (but it's the Interweb's fault for not being able to handle the raw data).

As much as I like to carry a cool laptop, I will never get past the issues of non-user-replaceable critical components (e.g., memory - which can go bad; battery - which is just plain stupid I always carry an extra battery "just in case" I don't care if it claims 10 hours of uptime; HD - these go bad, too, plus it's always nice to be able to take advantage of faster, bigger or solid state at my discretion).

BTW, I currently use one of the small AlienWare laptops (don't remember the model) - it has kept me happy for quite awhile and it's looks are still "cool". Oh, and I did my own memory upgrade of course.

Nothing new here at all... why is this here? I'd even say that giving this guy credit for "design" is a stretch.

I posted my original response and then 20 "new" posts showed up... geez. Honestly, I try not to be too redundant.

This is a funny thread. Seriously, though, I see huge potential for this and YES I would try it now if they would let me (consider the value of spotting cop radar vehicles from several miles away).

(Swedish girlfriends, that is)

I read all the time - everything from Sci-Fi to technical reference manuals. It's still easier for me to scan my (personal) library shelves for a trusted reference book than it is for me to surf around and hope that what I'm getting tid-bits of isn't total crap.

Case in point: all the stuff we post on this darned site - how much of it is truly useful?