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Show a picture of the side or rear of the device and it ceases to look anything like an iPad. Samsung has a long history of ripping off designs from other companies. RIM previously sued Samsung over a BlackBerry knockoff that Samsung endearingly called the BlackJack. Whether or not you agree such copying is wrong, legally or morally, there's no denying that Samsung borrows quite heavily from the designs of other companies and has done so for quite some time.

They say the new carbon could conduct electricity like a metal. Heck, whadda I know.. :)

I saw an article a while back on a really neat little portable gadget that does on-the-fly speech translation, albeit imperfectly. I couldn't find the one I read, but here's a link to a similar one: http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/digital_tokyo/articles/us_military_to_use_ibm_arabic_translation_gear_in_iraq/

So we're at least close to a good working model. I call that a relatively successful prediction. Here's the section (right above the one I linked previously) that talks about the accuracy of his previous predictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil#Accuracy_of_predictions

I'm sure shielding would be required, of course. There are also heat issues and numerous other problems.

It is possible on a small scale near computers, like this mouse pad.

Did you see the USB humping dogs? Those really blew me away.

First game is You are Gundam I love gundam, but it's quite a lol

A whole new batch of devices and stores support FLAC: for portables there are the iAUDIO T2 and iAUDIO F2, TrekStor's Vibez, the Onda VX737, and the AP3000 from Green Apple. For the home stereo, Slim Devices' Transporter and Ziova's CS510 and CS505. For music in FLAC format check out digital-tunes for electronic and underground, or FestivaLink.net for live shows.

Bluedot's BMP-1430 portable supports FLAC.

AudioReQuest's new S.Series music servers support FLAC.

Cowon's A2 now supports FLAC with the latest firmware, and Olive's new Opus both plays and records to FLAC.

The new Iwod G10 portable supports FLAC.

Want some FLAC with your Volvo? Volvo's Digital Jukebox, developed with PhatNoise, is fully integrated with the car's audio system and available for the S60, V70, XC70, and S80. PhatNoise's PhatBox in 2002 was the first device to support FLAC natively and has gained a loyal following.

Sony has been backing away from claiming compatibility. "It's hard to say the PlayStation 3 will be 100 percent backwards compatible but as we said earlier this year we aim to make it so as much as possible."

Sony will probably try software emulation, but there's no guarantee it will be fast enough to play all PS2 games. Tetris, no problem. Call of Duty, maybe not. "Compatible" might have to be an upgrade deal; turn in your PS2 game disk and get a discount on a PS3 version.

One approach to nanotube quality control is to make them cheap and dirty, then separate them chemically or mechanically (centrifuge, phoresis etc). Especially with different electromagnetic properties by which to separate them. Doping nanotubes for different chirality, especially heterogenous chirality in a single tube surface, is one of the more compelling avenues for nanocomputing research. Tubes a few dozen nanometers in diameter and dozens of centimeters long (10K:1 ratio), which is a pretty long wire. Solution processing is yielding plenty of results for nanotubes, and the "fundamental production" problems you predict don't even prohibit Si/DNA coupling techniques (another nanotechnique).

I don't know why you're so pessimistic. Even if those avenues were hitting real obstacles, or faced implicit physical contradictions, the field is extremely young. Especially in shrinking engineering, even small gains create new tools which enable breakthroughs. The actual limits to microengineering we now face, heat dissipation, parallelization, silicon featuresize and others, are the reason nanoengineering is seeing so much investment. We are already seeing nanoRAM announcements even here on Slashdot, and even today we saw buckyball films announced for PEM-type electronics. I see no "sound barrier" for nanotech yet - to the contrary, I see nanotech slipping past the micro "barrier" ever more quickly.