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India is actually one place tablet computers have persisted to be popular (and way before the iPad too), this one just got attention because of what it was and what its mission was at the time. And it is a dissapointment that it failed, but getting tablets at sub $50 price points in India is easy. If you want some yourself you can find them on alibaba.com, but don't count on finding many that are actually -made- in India.

Samples so nobody bitches:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/425363981/2012_PC_Tablet_7_inch_Android.html
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/586506340/7_inch_android_4_0_Rockchip.html

Flip the burgers: Burger King designed one quite a while ago, there are others http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/534610484/Automatic_burger_making_machine.html , keep in mind that "taste" is a creative field, so anything produced this way is likely to be fast-food, not restaurants.

I think that coming up with the recipes is creative, but once you have the recipe, that can easily be automated.

- Plumbing/Gas, machines don't work well with water, we can invent tools and robots to help, but it's a lot easier for a human to solve a plumbing problem by seeing where things are leaking/clogged and engineer a solution on the spot with available materials. Again, this is a creative angle.

It's a "creative" angle now but easily solvable. If we were to add sensors to plumbing/gas lines, then leaks and other problems could be identified fairly quickly. Just add sensors for moisture detection, pressure, etc... Place them along the plumbing, and you would not only know when there was a problem but what section was faulty.

- Customer Service. We don't as yet have a way for robots to do anything other than say NO. Can you imagine not being able to return anything, even unopened?

That's the easiest one to solve, and could probably be solved fairly quickly. Just scan the product and scan your receipt. Somehow come up with a way to determine if a package has been opened, if it hasn't then issue a store credit.

At $2.50 each, you are correct that bundling the controller in with the game is the correct answer.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/378595050/USB_Game_joystick_controller_for_PC.html

The lack of gamepad for the PC is an easy fix. Just include the gamepad in the box or mail it on registration. At $2.50 a piece, it solves the problem.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/378595050/USB_Game_joystick_controller_for_PC.html

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/smartphone-1ghz-cpu.html

any of those manufacturers will tailor design for you.

Contract MANUFACTURING is not R&D.

BIG difference!

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/smartphone-1ghz-cpu.html

any of those manufacturers will tailor design for you.

Not too terribly expensive. You don't exactly have to have a high capacity stick to do this- looks like you can pick up 32MB sticks for approximately 89 cents each in bulk and that's enough to put a "phone home and FTP up a hard drive" application on autorun under a cute cat video.

You're being trolled.

There was a time when Microsoft/Waggener Edstrom/Burson Marsteller shills would place posts praising their own products and slagging Google at the top of every story. I suspect this is intended to be a parody of them.

Having said that, Microsoft must be terrified of these things. They're available for as little as $20 in volume http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/561407182/Ider_Exclusive_Dongle_design_hdmi_dongle.html, and are easily capable enough for browsing the web, email, Facebook, basic office work etc. With HDMI to a decent screen and USB for keyboard and mouse, these dongles could easily replace 90% of home and small office desktops today, if it wasn't for MS Office format lockin.

They wholesale on Alibaba for $50. I assume you could probably obtain them for even less shopping around that site. In some respects these are more attractive than Raspberry PI since they have 512MB or 1GB ram and 4 GB storage and come with case and cables. On the flip side I doubt they're ever going to be as well supported by the community or manufacturer and it may be the hardware codecs remain locked up.

Just spec up a bog-standard set of components with a Chinese manufacturer like Molo http://www.molo-electronics.com/product/Pro158.Html or Elijah http://elijahindustrial.en.alibaba.com/product/539115573-200670129/13_3_inch_wide_screen1_8GHz_DVD_ROM_Bluetooth_Camera_laptop.html.

It'll cost you a fraction of the price of the Lenovo or any other branded equivalent, look prettier for the kids and work fine with whatever distro you specify.

These things are commodities now, especially in an elementary school setting. Why pay a premium?

As I see you're already at +5 I'll just reply to say thanks for the links, the molo site looks very interesting indeed...

It'll cost you a fraction of the price of the Lenovo or any other branded equivalent, look prettier for the kids and work fine with whatever distro you specify.

These things are commodities now, especially in an elementary school setting. Why pay a premium?

FDA.

FDA and other forms of government intervention, that's the only reason.

Look, the first cellphones cost thousands of dollars, today a comparable cellphone is under 20 bucks, if you can find one without camera and various other features, and even at that price they have dual SIMs.

The advances in minituarisation of electronics and battery tech is ridiculous, but what is more ridiculous is that hearing aids still are that expensive.

The reason is lack of competition, government intervention, government money, FDA.

Searching google patents for "hearing aid" returns 29,600 results. There is no way for anyone to invent a hearing aid that would not infringe on one of the thousands of active patents. That is, unless you buy from a country that doesn't give a rip about US patents.. I would check Alibaba http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/china-hearing-aids.html .

Wake me up when it actually exists.

Wake up, you sarcastic bastard.

I'm confident they will find a way

I'd say they already have, which is why they're trashing the DataWind deal.

You can buy similarly specced tablets dropshipped from China for less than $40 (in volumes) now. http://kingpai.en.alibaba.com/productlist.html

First off, there's no place Apple can park that cash that provides a return anything like what their own operations generate. So a dividend is appropriate.

Second, the big threat to Apple is lower prices. Apple has great margins, but that only lasts if the competition can be fended off. Hence the litigation.

The computer industry in general had this problem. For a while, it looked like the future of personal computing was $99 netbooks, sold in bubble-packs in the stationery section of drugstores. This had the industry terrified. The mobile industry saved them, by creating a direct connection between the customer's wallet and the cell phone network operator. Apple saved them by offering a premium product at a higher price point. Microsoft saved them by crushing the Linux netbook industry. What we have now are mobile personal computers that cost $3000 over the 3 years of the phone contract.

Most of the components in my cellular are produced in China. I don't care to dig into the origins of the invention of these components, but I doubt any of them are Israeli. And sharing of military technology is one-sided at best. Especially considering the first item listed under Israeli military equipment in USA use is, in fact, American. I'm not saying the Israelis don't have valuable technology, but we certainly wouldn't be defenseless and in the stone-age without Israeli innovation.

China?
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/designer-replica-handbags.html
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/quality-replica-handbags.html

China?
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/designer-replica-handbags.html
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/quality-replica-handbags.html

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=optical+microscope&Country=&IndexArea=product_en&fsb=y

Cheap optical microscope, $28-$29

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/407358404/XSP_51_Biological_microscope_optical_microscope.html

A USB reflective optical microscope, $10

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/464883671/USB_130x200_usb_optical_microscope.html

Seriously, if this is not cheap, I don't know what is. The expensive part is the *physician* that can actually use this stuff properly. With USB microscope, that can even be done remotely provided you have some cheap laptop with it. But then you'll need that for their "hologram microscope" too!!

Sure, do research on new imaging techniques, but stop, for the love of God, trying to tell us this is "cheap for Africa research". Come on!!

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=optical+microscope&Country=&IndexArea=product_en&fsb=y

Cheap optical microscope, $28-$29

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/407358404/XSP_51_Biological_microscope_optical_microscope.html

A USB reflective optical microscope, $10

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/464883671/USB_130x200_usb_optical_microscope.html

Seriously, if this is not cheap, I don't know what is. The expensive part is the *physician* that can actually use this stuff properly. With USB microscope, that can even be done remotely provided you have some cheap laptop with it. But then you'll need that for their "hologram microscope" too!!

Sure, do research on new imaging techniques, but stop, for the love of God, trying to tell us this is "cheap for Africa research". Come on!!

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=optical+microscope&Country=&IndexArea=product_en&fsb=y

Cheap optical microscope, $28-$29

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/407358404/XSP_51_Biological_microscope_optical_microscope.html

A USB reflective optical microscope, $10

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/464883671/USB_130x200_usb_optical_microscope.html

Seriously, if this is not cheap, I don't know what is. The expensive part is the *physician* that can actually use this stuff properly. With USB microscope, that can even be done remotely provided you have some cheap laptop with it. But then you'll need that for their "hologram microscope" too!!

Sure, do research on new imaging techniques, but stop, for the love of God, trying to tell us this is "cheap for Africa research". Come on!!

The huge sales at $99 as HP liquidated their inventory of tablets indicates that the only problem is price. Generic Android tablets are now available in quantity for $50 to $109., FOB Shenzen, China. (Yes, some people who look at that will whine about the processor and memory specs. So?) Price won't be a problem for much longer.

Which also happens in the US.

Apple are the heavyweight in cheap consumer electronics, and American owned. We should be asking why they aren't building in the US, especially as most of what they "build" is putting together other companies' components.

And we should be defining what "make (or made)" and "build (or built)" mean. If I buy a motherboard from taiwan and build a computer from it in the US, is it "Made in America"? What if the motherboard is from taiwan, CPU from Arizona, hard drive and case from China, power supply from California and I build the computer in Dallas, is it "Made in America"? What if the parts are mostly from the US but they're assembled in Mexico, what is that? And we can take it further, what if the parts are made in the US but the rare earth elements used in those parts are from China, where is it "made"?

Car manufactures have been playing this game for years, buying parts from overseas but assembling the car in the US and calling them "American made". It's so bad that there's a American-Made Index where they rate cars based on how many of their parts come from the US and vehicles like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord are more "American made" than the Chevy Traverse or Ford Explorer and American icons like the F-150 and Silverado don't even make the list, so people buying trucks from Ford or GM thinking they're supporting America really aren't, they'd be better off buying a Toyota Tundra.

Obviously if the metal, chemicals and other rare materials were mined in the US to make the parts in the US used to assemble the device in the US then it's 100% American made, but that's almost never going to happen so we need to clear this up before we can call something "Made in America".

Many if not all video recording technology using CCDs is susceptible to being blinded by IR light. I'm frankly surprised that theaters don't already use a powerful strobbing, patterned IR lamp on their projectors or next to the screen to make sure that boolegers get a really screwed up images. Not something like an over-elaborate over-engineered in-video encoding but something as simple as some remote control LEDs taped to the walls. Might not work on expensive, shielded stuff but el cheapo cameras more likely to get snuck in by are certainly screwed up by it.

In the end though, I guess we'll just have to go back to bribing the projector operators with free beer for a really clean copy of whatever the movie house is playing that week.

I assume that this is the last *manual* typewriter factory.

No.

Well, they may "mean" that, but it's not true either. There are several of those in China at least.

http://chinatypewriter.en.alibaba.com/

Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company is one of the leading manufacturers of manual typewriter in China. Weilv is located in Lvxiang Industrial Zone, Southwest of Shanghai City. We own a factory covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters and about 70 professional workers.

We have a history of making typewriters of more than 10 years. For all the key parts, we imported from foreign countries to ensure the quality and endurance of our products. That is why we are one of the top 3 suppliers of manual/mechanical typewriters in China.

However as far as I know you just can't put a HID bulb into a standard incandescent fixture b/c you need a ballast to start and maintain the arc. What kind of setup are you using?

I meant that many people already have this kind of fixtures installed, and it's not difficult to retrofit them to use an external ballast. We're talking outdoors... there's always room for a big bad ballast. I prefer the transformer kind, those last forever. But High CRI (90+, say, Philips 70 or 150W/940 -- 90+ CRI 4000K) lamps need electronics ballasts... they're not designed for outdoors anyways, they're specifically designed for window displays.

No, but I did have a cleaning lady who used to move my keyboard to clean under it, and placed it upon the wireless keyboard/mouse dongle sitting under my monitor (It was plugged into this so it was sticking out at an angle). I didn't realise until i came in one day to find my keyboard didn't work and when I checked the dongle it was bent to about 30 degrees.

Not entirely sure if I should blame the cleaner for not just putting my keyboard back on the desk, or logitech for making such a stupidly shaped USB extension.

Yes, throw away that old inhaler! Just inhale this LEMON or this sour bomb and breathe your worries away!

Would you want an iPad if it was thicker, heavier easier to break?

As for your car analogy, More like you're comparing one of these to a car, and saying it was intentionally crippled (no fourth wheel, no spare etc).

I just see things differently than most ;) (and I don't own any apple products)

In other news the sales of swimming pool sized military style camouflage meshes is up in the New York area...

Here's the bottom of the apparel food chain. "Bulk Bale Clothing". $0.25/lb. Minimum order 55,000 pounds. Supply availability 1,000,000 pounds per month. Bulk in 1000 pound bales.

That's just one of a hundred similar suppliers. "We currently have 28 containers of brand name clothing acquired in a bank deal." "250,000 lbs baled used clothing. 25% coats,sweaters, heavy clothing. $0.84/lb."

That's life in the no-IP world of apparel. The wastage is enormous.

Everybody I know keeps their keys and trinkets around their neck on a lanyard along with their badges.

I prefer to use two keyrings: one with the bare essentials(1 key for car, 2 keys for house) and a big one for the more obscure keys that I could go pick up from home if I had to do something special. I also make backup duplicates of all my keys.

Hollow rocks and magnetic key holders are also good places to store backup keys in case you lock yourself out of the car or house.

Try here: http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=melamine+foam

You may need to order it by the container load, but that's where I'd start.

Only it isn't cheap, these are some of the most expensive minerals on the planet.

Not cheap, but not among the most expensive. Seems to run from about $75 to $500 per kg of the refined metal, depending on exactly which rare earth you want.

I can speak from experience that Chinese no-name dual-SIM touchscreen phones are way better than their price point and reputation would suggest.

600RMB (~60 EUR) would get you a touchscreen phone from ChangHong with integrated stylus and character recognition (Chinese and Latin, but it's error prone), high resolution display (480*x?), two SIMs, music player, straight mini USB interface, driverless USB mass storage interface, 8GB integrated, up to 32gb via SDHC micro and a 2.5Mpixel camera. And the phone can be set to English (with some Engrish in the mix of course). Bluetooth yes, but no 3G, no WiFi.

It looks like this (I don't know if that is the model I played with, it looks only vaguely similar)
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/263983686/ChangHong-F8-mobile-phone.jpg

An interesting feature is text-to-speech for names stored in the address book: it actually read the name of a caller in understandable English. Caller not in the adressbook with CLIP enabled had their numbers spelled aloud. In Chinese only of course :)

One feature I was very content with is the battery time: it has a 4000mAh battery - NiMH, not Li-Ion but still. A solid two weeks of battery power with medium amounts of talking time in between is more than impressive. Within the 600 RMB package was a second identical battery, a charging station, a 5V USB charger that could be substituted with any other 5V USB charger that exists. That way, you could always keep one battery charged and switch as soon as the other battery got low. Memory effect shmemory effect - you'll get a brandnew original battery for 5 EUR, so it's no problem charging the thing whenever you need to. Maybe Li-Ion is overrated and the situation where a memory effect would be noticeable isn't that common. I mean, who recharges their phone daily?

Measured in value-per-dollar, this thing was great. Downsides and eventual deal-breakers were some Engrish remains in the menu but the worst was some menus that were in Chinese only, no translation available. The games for example, but also some SMS sub-menus.

When (not if!) ChangHong gets around to translate the firmware with all submenus and iron out the last kinks, this will devastate the lower end cellphone market.

They were thick because in a CRT the limitations of the focusing and bending magnets prevent you from pointing the electron beam in an arbitrary direction. With a laser and a mirror this isn't as true.

Except it isn't true with a CRT either. SONY makes (or at least made) CRTs where the electron gun is pointing up from below the screen. Tosho Electronics makes them as well.

Looking at the issue of generating power, there are several choices available, and coal is one of those, but so also is nuclear, wind and solar. They're more expensive, and any tiny amount more expensive than oil means they wont be used right now, but they're not *massively* more expensive, its not like ten times or even a hundred times, it's like, well here is one view of coal vs nuclear which evalutes it as 30 dollars per megawatt hour instead of 29.1 ...

Next, you discussed distribution of power, specifically I felt you feel that using coal to generate power means that it's no longer possible to power machinery on farms, or to power transport.

Even today, we have electric powered:

• trains
• subways
• cars
• bicyles
• ... I'm going to stop this list, because it looks like spam ;-)

It seems reasonable to suppose that if we wished to, we could make electrically powered farm machinery too. Sure, there may be issues, like disposing of old batteries, but they are not I feel insurmountable issues, and I feel they are not issues that will push our civilisation back to the dawn of the 1900s are you are proposing...

Outside Europe, the name "Parmesan" is treated as generic. The European Union campaigns against the use of protected European food labels by producers outside the designated region of origin, which might eventually lead to dropping the word "Parmesan" from cheese products originating outside the designated production region of Parmigiano-Reggiano.

It appears that Argentina also produces something called Parmesan Cheese:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-tp/11688233/Parmesan_Cheese.html

I know it's cool to hate the US, but from what I gather, people in the US don't like cheese as flavorful as other places, on average. It's also kind of regional. Maybe that's why this "award winning" Parmesan from Wisconsin is aged 10 months instead of 12?

http://www.widmerscheese.com/products/Parmesan_Cheese_12oz-76-24.html

I'm just kind of rambling here, but is Argentinian Parmesan like Ralph Laurem?

Why do you have such a chip on your shoulder?

I have a chip on my shoulder do I? And you don't? If I have one, it's because big businesses get government subsidies. And government is bigger than the limits put on it by the Constitution of the USA. Yes, I'm one of those people who still believe the Constitution still means something, even if it's not followed. After my dad retired from the military I followed an older sister in joining the US Army to protect it. Another sister's son is a Marine stationed in Iraq.

Wind and solar are proven.

Then where are they? If wind and solar are as cheap as you say (and your friends say), then where are they?

Notice I said "proven" not cheaper. Many people have solar panels installed on their roofs. Solar farms are operating in Spain with more being planned and built. In the US there is more than 52 terawatts of wind capacity installed. And more capacity can be added readily. During the rolling blackouts in CA years ago there were wind farms that sat idle when they could have contributed 240 megawatts a day. Why were they idle? Because the powerlines to carry the power were not installed. Those lines would have been needed whether for wind or nuclear power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_united_states#Resurgence

As of March 9, 2009, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission had received applications for permission to construct 26 new nuclear power reactors with applications for another 7 expected.

Ah I see you left out an important part of that article, "In recent years,there has been a renewed interest in nuclear power in the US. This has been facilitated in part by the federal government with the Nuclear Power 2010 Program, which coordinates efforts for building new nuclear power plants, and the Energy Policy Act which makes provisions for nuclear and oil industries."

Let's investigate more:

• "The "Nuclear Power 2010 Program" was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on February 14, 2002"
• "The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-58) is a bill passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005"

The president then was Bush and he's a big supporter of nuclear power but wasn't one for alternative energy sources. Bush excluded alternative energy, citizen's, and consumer groups from his Energy Task Force but Enron and big oil were invited.

OH! You asked for citation regarding the "Megaton to Megawatts" program. (though I don't understand why you are so snappy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program

No, I didn't ask for citation of the Megaton to Megawatts program, I don't recall having heard of it before. I did ask for citation "that the majority of Uranium for Commercial Nuclear Power now comes from deactivated Nuclear Warheads", cut and paste is wonderful.

You believe in the theories of nuclear power

I'm afraid you don't understand the difference between theory and fact.

Generation IV reactors only work in theory, there are none operating and supplying power to the grid now. Meanwhile current plants are having problems.

• "Owners of Oyster Creek nuclear plant may not release leak information"
• After 16 years in service Trojan Nucle

I want to live in your magical world where handheld RFID scanners just need to be pointed in the general direction of the tags and can be depended on to catch 100% of the tags without human supervision.

You're already in it. Hand-held readers for active tags have a range of 150 feet.

From the product blurb:

Savi's tags and readers include large data capacity, choke point location capabilities (door, gate, etc.), programmability as long as the reader-tag link is "solid", and 3-7 year battery life, depending on tag type, usage, and environment.

Read range can exceed 300 feet though our guaranteed range is 300 feet for most applications. Readers are omni-directional so that this should be interpreted as 300 feet radius which provides a coverage circle of 600 feet diameter.

We also provide handheld readers with range capability up to 150 feet.

Our EchoPoint tags can be used at a door (including dock doors) or at a 15-20 foot wide access gate with passing speeds up to 40 MPH with multiple tags in the field and at higher speed when only a few tags are present on a vehicle and or trailer or shipping containe

So unless the cattle is moving at more than 40MPH when they're being running up the ramp into the back of the truck, they can be read by a handheld unit.

Or if you want passive hand-helds - this one is good for 3'.

Other portables: This one does 3' to 10' (adjustable), and another one that does 6', so what's your beef?

I want to live in your magical world where handheld RFID scanners just need to be pointed in the general direction of the tags and can be depended on to catch 100% of the tags without human supervision.

You're already in it. Hand-held readers for active tags have a range of 150 feet.

From the product blurb:

Savi's tags and readers include large data capacity, choke point location capabilities (door, gate, etc.), programmability as long as the reader-tag link is "solid", and 3-7 year battery life, depending on tag type, usage, and environment.

Read range can exceed 300 feet though our guaranteed range is 300 feet for most applications. Readers are omni-directional so that this should be interpreted as 300 feet radius which provides a coverage circle of 600 feet diameter.

We also provide handheld readers with range capability up to 150 feet.

Our EchoPoint tags can be used at a door (including dock doors) or at a 15-20 foot wide access gate with passing speeds up to 40 MPH with multiple tags in the field and at higher speed when only a few tags are present on a vehicle and or trailer or shipping containe

So unless the cattle is moving at more than 40MPH when they're being running up the ramp into the back of the truck, they can be read by a handheld unit.

Or if you want passive hand-helds - this one is good for 3'.

Other portables: This one does 3' to 10' (adjustable), and another one that does 6', so what's your beef?

I want to live in your magical world where handheld RFID scanners just need to be pointed in the general direction of the tags and can be depended on to catch 100% of the tags without human supervision.

You're already in it. Hand-held readers for active tags have a range of 150 feet.

From the product blurb:

Savi's tags and readers include large data capacity, choke point location capabilities (door, gate, etc.), programmability as long as the reader-tag link is "solid", and 3-7 year battery life, depending on tag type, usage, and environment.

Read range can exceed 300 feet though our guaranteed range is 300 feet for most applications. Readers are omni-directional so that this should be interpreted as 300 feet radius which provides a coverage circle of 600 feet diameter.

We also provide handheld readers with range capability up to 150 feet.

Our EchoPoint tags can be used at a door (including dock doors) or at a 15-20 foot wide access gate with passing speeds up to 40 MPH with multiple tags in the field and at higher speed when only a few tags are present on a vehicle and or trailer or shipping containe

So unless the cattle is moving at more than 40MPH when they're being running up the ramp into the back of the truck, they can be read by a handheld unit.

Or if you want passive hand-helds - this one is good for 3'.

Other portables: This one does 3' to 10' (adjustable), and another one that does 6', so what's your beef?

they are not selling netbooks with 2GB of ram

umm, you sure about that?

Can you even boot Vista in under 512 Meg?

Yes.

Sure. I tend to buy the 200g value pack. Maybe that's why I get it a little cheaper?

Microsoft kiosks might supply you a free chair? ;)

Seriously though, what makes it expensive and complicated is the DRM and "flow of money control". Because you have to make sure everyone gets their cut, and decide what is a fair cut for the near infinite combinations you are proposing to provide, and ensure that stuff is not printed for free that shouldn't be etc etc. Think of all the logging, auditing, checking, protocols etc.

It's just like the difference between a shop providing you "free" internet access as long as you buy their expensive coffee and a hotel charging you for internet access. Once you start charging, things get more complicated. The hotel needs a system to make sure that you can't get access unless you agree to pay, and then handle payment and all sorts of options (like do you still get access in the lobby after you checkout).

Seems easier to make money from those photo kiosks/booth in malls.

e.g. http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/Photo_Sticker_Machine.html

With results like:

http://www.roler.cc/purikura.html :)

"How soon until homeland security shows up accusing him of terrorism?"

Only if he criticizes Israel and starts to wear a keffiyeh, no it's not a teatowel. Is this more interesting than The web browser is a dead end

That's AMAZING NEW TECH!!! Zero watts, ha? I can't believe we finally figured this shit out!

Problem is that it relies on OLD technology to 'work well'.

That's a dumb argument. I still slice bread with knife, a technology which has been around for thousands of years

Pros do it with a multi-bladed automated bread cutting machine, you philistine!