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I was referring to the demo, which is seven-segment. The actual watch is 15 pixels per digit, but the point is that the watch is displaying the arabic numerals "0" and "1". My point is that I only need one pixel per bit.

Did anyone watch the promotional video?

It's got the production quality of a middle-school extra credit assignment--though, maybe it's because the designers are just better engineers than they are video producers.

- Leigh

From the looks of their video, they definitely need to hang out with some marketing folks, if only for a couple hours over a few beers. Still, the video has an enduring, ineffable charm. All the qualities of amateur pr0n. Without the pr0n. (Be sure to turn up the volume in order to hear the dialogue in the live-action scene -- unlike pr0n, the dialogue makes the magic.)

this page tells about their next project: a watch that can transmit viruses to other watches! I want one!

You can find it here .

The promotional video is pretty funny too (in an MST3K, bad movie kinda way...).

You can find a real shot here.

Plain 'ol LCD stuff. Still pretty cool for the price though.

The product shots are CG renders! I doubt this product really exists...

Communism is where you must share what you have produced, with a gun to your head. If you refuse, you are thrown into jail or killed.

It's amazing how ignorant Americans are about politics. The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics never claimed to be a Communist state; it claimed to be a state which aspired to, and sought to work towards, Communism. The particular flavour of Communism which it sought to work towards was Marxist, but Marx didn't invent Communism as an idea; it had wide currency in his period (see e.g the Paris Commune, and comtemporary papers by Anarchist theorist, Peter Kropotkin).

In Marx's time Communism was already over a thousand years old, and had been a feature of many of the heretical groups of the middle ages, and of extreme factions during the English Civil War

So, in summary, 'Communism' does not mean the Soviet system; 'Communism' does not mean Marxism-Leninism; and 'Communism' does not mean having a gun held to your head.

Is Open Source a communist idea? Yes, I'm perfectly sure it is. But it is most certainly not a Soviet idea or a Marxist idea.

clones, schmones, who cares?
All the stories on the subject I've seen suggest the clone still has to be grown in the womb. That means it comes out as a baby.

That means if I wanted to clone myself right now, the clone comes out 0 years old, and I'm 28 years old. The world is very different now than 28 years ago. I would be a different parent than my parents were, the clone would have different friends, etc. etc. The clone would be in a different environment, and hence turn out different. (Except he'd still love Night Ranger, of course.) ;-)

So except for some Hitler-esque plot of cloning 1000 "super soldiers" for an army all at once, I see no problem with this technology. Plus, I think few, if any countries, have the infrastructure for such a plot.

One version of the story is online here.

Hiya,
Theres already a host of such brilliant sites around, probably the best i've ever come across was run by Fravia who unfortunately has decided to close it down, if you are very lucky you may be able to find one of the mirrors still alive. In its place he has created a great site which deals largely with search engines and searching the web as well as many other interesting topics. He still has a few links to reverse engineering stuff however. You can find his site here .
Some other sites which are up there with Fravia's site include:
Mammon's Site
Crackz r.e site here and here
The Sandman's code reversing for newbies.
Greythorne the Technomancer's
These are just a few of the many out there however imho they are the best i have come across.
Cheers, VI

Trolltech certainly did an early mockup to show Opera what could be done but I don't know if they are still doing the work. I'd imagine that using the gui toolkit is probably ridiculously easy compared to the browser code itself. At least one of the people working on Opera (and working on the gui bits too), Espen Sand has an Opera email address.