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This is like the 4th or 5th exchange that has gone bust, right?

Actually more like 18, but MtGox counts as the first major exchange to fail. The rest of those amount to you or I throwing up an "exchange" as our CompSci101 project and then vanishing when they lost their shirts.

The loss of MtGox definitely counts as a blow to Bitcoin, but as others will no doubt point out, it had already started "failing" months ago (when you have a good 20% price spread vs the next highest exchange and you don't see arbitrage occurring on a massive scale, you know you have a problem). Any fools with either USD or BTC left in Gox since the beginning of the year (and even before that) pretty much stopped paying attention and deserve what they got.

And the effect on the BTC market since then bears that out - The price initially plummeted, but has already stabilized at 2/3rds its previous stable value. If anything, this counted (and still does, IMO) as a great opportunity to get in during a market correction and load up on deeply discounted BTC.

There are no markets in nature

Well, almost no markets in nature. Chimps exchange sex for meat

But what am I playing the most recently? Tabletop games. Pandemic, Illuminati, Fortune & Glory, Lords of Waterdeep, etc. (Though I did buy Space Hulk on Steam after playing it tabletop)

Most of the recently-released PC games have left a sour taste. I loved Skyrim, but after 2 complete playthroughs (1 with all the official DLC expansions), and multiple half-playthrus I'm a little weary of it at 700+ hours. If Elder Scrolls Online was going to be like Skyrim, but with other human-playable characters in the same world, I'd pay all their silly little microtransactions and subscription fees. However, having played the Elder-ay Olls-Scray Online-ay beta, I can see that it's going to be a whopping turd. Not because of bugs or anything; It's just uninteresting cloned drivel. I'm seeing a lot of recommendations for some indie games in this thread and I'll probably be checking them out (Papers Please? FTL?).

I thought the new consoles would open up a lot of possibilities, and they may yet. However, I currently only have a single game for my PS4 (FIFA 14) and nothing else seems worth buying yet. Even FIFA 14 is barely worth it. I still think ProEvo's Master League is better than FIFA's, but I heard the gameplay on FIFA was going to be so much better. Meh. Plus, the leagues and licensing that EA can afford makes it a little better.

The ones that are gambling big time are the ones that are trying to hide that there is a climate change, and investing large sums into that. Atlanta problems are nothing compared with what will come next decade. And we will all (ok, at least the 99% of us) lose.

There's also the fact that Android is starting to look like one massive bait-and-switch. Google has spent a few years now slowly killing their support for open-source components and replacing them with proprietary ones. Personally, I don't really mind yet, and you can always go with Cyanogenmod or something based on true AOSP, but I can certainly understand someone wanting to avoid Android entirely because of it.

See: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...

Secondly it's entirely voluntary. It's not even "opt-out". You have to make an actual choice whether to enable it or not during setup.

Not for long: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...

It runs from embedded small systems to supercomputers, so is generic enough to run in most of their existing computers/cellphones/watches/supercomputers/etc. You can start from zero, but it will take time and won't be as tested to be safe as it is Linux today. And they had already contributed to the linux kernel, and had already their own state sponsored distributions. Open source (if you can compile it, and verify that it is really what is in the source) ensures not only that foreing hands hadn't modified it, but that neither national hands did it, if they really don't want to trust in anyone.

There have been hominids for 5m years, proper humans for only 200k years, civilization for just 20k years, and in 100 years we invented a lot of things (from nukes to biological agents) that could end mankind any day, while going rampant sabotaging the earth ecosystem... and things keeps accelerating. What make you think that will be humans around in not in 1 billon nor 1 millon, but only 10k years in the future being very generous?

Yes, laying eggs somewhere else could improve the chances, self-sustaining space colonies is the way to try it more than generation ships, if any of them is ever possible. But that don't have a chance to happen with current culture where profit in the present is more important than having a future.

To put an example, an asteroid impacted earth 2 days ago that wasn't detected till that moment, how much you think is "invested" on mapping any potential space threats compared with, i.e. spying on ourselves, bailing out banks or even denying climate change? When the federal government had budget problems one of the first victims was the NASA program to detect space debris (a good example of a surveillance system that worth it), while the pentagon wasted 5.5billons the night before the shutdown (if we are talking about our survival, that was a waste), And always will be an "emergency" that will divert efforts and attention to something else, even if we have to create it. Unless we figure out a practical, safe way to travel (far) into the future (yes, we could done it doing a relativistic speed trip, or some suspended animation process could be developed, but nothing practical and for masses yet) we should not worry about what will happen in a millon years, is just too out of the reach of mankind.

You mean the year of the record breaking massive storms in asia? You know, "global" means all the world, even if people like you in US think that there is nothing outside, and that can't tell the difference between weather and climate. How well you get paid to spread this?

Probably some of this money could had made a difference in how well we could do model climates, or even figure out courses of actions. But seems that is better investment to give it to denialist trolls.

The technology has existed for decades

Actually, no.

We can send robots to Mars, but we still don't have the technology to send people there -

- A craft that can support people for the ~200-day journey to Mars through interplanetary space (including protecting them from ionizing radiation) has never been built and we don't know how.

- The creation of a landing craft is a tremendous challenge. Granted, Mars One is 'supposedly' a one-way trip so many of these issues are mitigated, but assuming the astronauts would want to come home you need to launch from the surface of Mars and then return to earth. No craft that has ever landed on Mars has returned to terra firma.

Wired had a good overview of these issues here -

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/31/getting-to-mars

1) Potential for greater liability if the Site Owner tries to moderate but occasionally lets one slip.

2) Potential for greater profit if linked accounts are worth more to advertisers

3) China cracked down on anonymity (article from a year ago http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-12/28/china-internet-registration) and we can't be left behind

Billons were spent between 2003 and 2010 to deny climate change (pdf) and probably even more has been used for that goal in the last 3 years. In any case, is more money that was ever used to measure climate change, to detect dangerous asteroids, and prevent the spreading of pandemic diseases.

Maybe science should stop doing warnings and studies and let things happens with no preparations from our side. We deserve it.

Your characterization of the paper is misleading. They're looking at all the groups that have a denialist position and taking a sum of their income, but those groups aren't exclusively doing climate change. The billions help characterize the influence of the advocates but not the amount of advocating they're doing.

Besides, the biggest denialist advocate in the US is Fox News and the Republican party, I'd say they're worth far more than these advocacy groups to cast doubt on AGW.

Billons were spent between 2003 and 2010 to deny climate change (pdf) and probably even more has been used for that goal in the last 3 years. In any case, is more money that was ever used to measure climate change, to detect dangerous asteroids, and prevent the spreading of pandemic diseases.

Maybe science should stop doing warnings and studies and let things happens with no preparations from our side. We deserve it.

At least denialism is better funded than science. Who needs a future?

>Why would Assange wiretap the Icelandic parliament and how could he? I doubt he has that powerful connections up there.

Actually he had an Icelandic person known here in Iceland as Siggi "the hacker" working for him, and he was actually implicated in a hack attempt at the parliment:

"In January 2011, Thordarson was implicated in a bizarre political scandal in which a mysterious "spy computer" laptop was found running unattended in an empty office in the parliament building. "If you did [it], don't tell me," Assange told Thordarson, according to unauthenticated chat logs provided by Thordarson."

From http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/28/wikileaks-mole

It is possible this was the work of Siggi "the hacker".
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/28/wikileaks-mole
He was fired from Wikileaks after he transferred money from Wikileaks to his personal account. He then contacted FBI and was thought he was to be used as some kind of bait for Wikileaks. He has then been connected to number of other shady deals here in Iceland. I believe he is currently in Prison for a sexual assault.

Do you have a source? According to Business Insider, the mantle is held by World of Warcraft (> $10 billion), but that may be unfair since it is a subscription model at $15 a month, on top of the inital $50-$100 dollar purchase (look at original WoW at $50, then 4 expansions at $40 a piece, worst case). Take a step back to console/pc single purchase, and it's CoD: Black Ops at $1.5 Billion. Or maybe the crown goes to GTA 5, which topped $1 Billion in sales in 3 days.

Or you could mean total sales. I see on wikipedia Wii Sports as the best with almost 83 million copies sold. Unless you look at the numbers released by Amazon.co.uk, which has the CoD franchise taking the cake. Or you could mean fastest selling, which was CoD: Black Ops. Though sales numbers don't really mean a whole lot, since they don't take development cost into account, or the fact that Wii Sports was bundled (i.e. how many were independant purchases? how many could have been?).

'just replicate the damn Android API, piece by piece, it is open is it not? '
The open parts of the API work.

The problem is that increasing parts of the android API are closed, being implemented not by open source code, but by closed source binaries with licences that do not permit redistribution by other manufacturers.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/21/googles-iron-grip-on-android

'Play Services is a closed source app owned by Google and licensed as part of the Google Apps package. Any feature you see move from "normal" Android to Google Play Services is also moving from open source to closed source. This app pulls off the neat trick of not only enticing users with exclusive, closed source features, but locking in third-party developers with Google's proprietary APIs as well.'

This is entirely by (googles) design, and for exactly this reason.
To make it hard for third party vendors to release devices which run android apps because an increasing fraction of them won't work as time and increasing integration into Play Services happens.

I have not investigated, but would suspect that the various APIs were designed around patents google owns or controls, in order to make implementing the backend supporting the API legally impossible in many countries.

It's really not that rosy.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/21/googles-iron-grip-on-android for some context.
'For OEMs, this means they aren't allowed to slowly transition from Google's Android to a fork. The second they ship one device that runs a competing fork, they are given the kiss of death and booted out of the Android family -- it must be a clean break. This, by design, makes switching to forked Android a terrifying prospect to any established Android OEM. You must jump off the Google cliff, and there's no going back.'

There is _NO_ automated process for getting an android device appoved.
Do one thing that google does not like, and you cannot legally ship any of the google apps - which as the above article explains - means many, or most apps on the google store break, even if you try to simply copy them over, as the platform services are not open source.

Cable only comes in at 720p. Blu-rays and game consoles are 1080p. For 4k I'd have to go buy all new movies and a 4k player...and that's not even including how close I'd need to be to the TV to see the difference.

Sony and Panasonic are working on a new physical disc, as is the Blu-ray Disc Association. HDMI 2.0 supports 4k resolution at 60fps, 30 channels of audio, etc. I would wait for these standards to mature - I don't want to suffer the same "HDTV ready" fiasco from yesteryear.

just making sure, tears like in fabric right? not sad emo tears?

Either one could be bad.

i like this new tablet ..... http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/15/argos-mytablet.

They're going to have a BA-330 module on it in 2015. If the whole station was made of those, it'd be a LOT larger.

Ok I remember reading that Virgin Galactic is expecting its first passenger flight this year... Christmas Day...

Here it is:
Virgin Galactic first flight expected in 2013
Richard Branson: first Virgin Galactic flight on Christmas Day
Virgin Galactic to launch on Christmas
And he plans to take his kids:
Our 500th Astronaut

I'm sure it could all fall through, or some regulator will pop their head in, but my bets are with the exuberant billionaire.

The solar cells cost is largely measured in the energy made to create it. Efficiency = output/cost. We just reached parity in 2010- that's pretty pathetic. And that doesn't include the costs of transportation, loss due to damage from hail, etc, and other such issues. Until this ratio becomes really large (10x), solar cells aren't much better than a battery- you put energy in and get it back out later.
There have been many promising technologies 'on the horizon' that are supposed to make solar cells cheap (made with little energy).
This is the most recent article of printable solar cells. I read one just like this 10+ years ago:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/a3-printed-solar-cells
Then you have the "new material" of the hour:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517811/a-material-that-could-make-solar-power-dirt-cheap/
And all the other stuff, such as:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163561-the-key-to-cheap-solar-power-may-have-been-discovered-over-150-years-ago
Until something radically changes, these 'investments' in solar companies are really just there to line to pockets of political cronies, like the 33 companies that made large donations to our president and received even larger 'investments' which were paid out before the company declared bankruptcy
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/

The next step for the NSA is a small file for every human with enough space for a days internet links, chats, text for life.
That can bed expanded as they get politically active :)
The file per person would allow any persons digital life to be tracked back to the first 'connection' of interest.
In the past all that could be done was to track telephone numbers, fax, computer use and voice prints as found or via contact with a past person or group of interest.
The past sorting was very quick and left a very small amount of data to be sent to the US from any distant super computing location (UK, Australia)
ie the NSA is not after http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/24/gchq-tempora-101 long term.
They don't want 'big' content long term, they need space for all your ip's used, ports, apps used keywords, links, times, locations, connections to people - all very tiny amounts of text like info for now ie the "initial filter" will go for your pic, movie, sound, text - not keeping it, but might give a facial recognition code string to everybody in the pic. You only need a good voice print every so often...
Data size has never been the issue, legality, domestic commercial 'help' have been.

My client was a US whistleblower who generated a huge bunch of bitcoins and I need help smuggling him into Kenya?
Add in some https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240657.0 details with a bit of http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/bitcoin-prism

As per the parent post they were referencing a list of usernames and passwords sourced 'elsewhere'. Yahoo jp edition lost pretty much everyone's details about six weeks back - this is more than likely the source.

I have a club nintendo jp account (no notice of hacking yet, though I did receive notice from Yahoo above). From memory the user ID for the club nintendo service needed to be an eight digit number rather than a more usual word based UID. That could easily explain the perceived low success rate of the hack attempts.

Found it http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/25/hitachi-quartz-data-storage

He apparently claimed in 2009 that the NSA planned to infiltrate Wikileaks to identify journalists that were leaking classified information. Then in 2011 the US government recruited Sigurdur Thordarson. I think it would be fair to say Madsen REALLY doesn't like Obama, sadly like most of the world now :-(, but he may have scored a hit with his latest one. Though it was only a semi-secret anyway.

Phillip.

I think this goes beyond a few employees walking out with the occasional thumb drive. If they have a link inside Google* it means a sh*tload of additional traffic to their backbone provider. Or a dedicated fiber link. Someone would notice.

Depends what data they are monitoring, if they are just capturing search queries and IP addresses, it's not that much data. Google gets around 4B queries/day. If each query log entry consumes 256 bytes (should be less with compression?) that's 1TB of data per day, which *would* fit on a thumb drive. Or consume around 100mbit/second of bandwidth, which would be lost in the noise of Google's outbound bandwidth (or served by a single AT&T fiber drop that terminates at the NSA)

*Its more likely this is being monitored in real time at the backbone providers. The same people that were given unconditional amnesty for handing customer data out. Cue the movie scene where the crooked cop has all the local hoods on a short leash when he needs some dirty work done.

Depends on whether or not they want to see SSL encrypted data too. Few believe that the NSA has the compute power to decrypt billions of SSL transactions a day.

many countries want a total moratorium on whaling for cultural reasons. Japan and several other countries with long culture of whaling view this as insanity

I think "about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan" and "younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale" suggest that the majority of the population of Japan doesn't really care about whaling and wouldn't care if there was a total moratorium. Last year, whaling companies failed to sell 908 of the 1,211 tons of whale meat that they brought in and the industry was given over £22 million in subsidies and emergency funds to keep it alive.

While it may be different in other countries, the Japanese people aren't eating most of the whale meat that's being taken and they aren't encouraging their kids to eat any. This is purely a case of a dying industry trying to regain some popularity. Insert your favorite buggy whip manufacturer analogy here.

Join this power-generating capability with Google's recent initiative to provide internet access to sub-Sarahan Africa via blimp: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/26/google-blimps ...and you've got a robust, uninterruptable combination for internet access in the poorest, and the most corrupt nations in the world. Under such circumstances, Google will have great communicative and, perhaps most interestingly, surveillance power over the people under these oppressive governments. It should be interesting how such absolute power, so closely aligned with government interests, affects Google's behavior.

Of course, it could be that Google simply feels these citizens represent a huge market for targeted advertisements for tablet PCs and Lexus vehicles.

Australia's unannounced 'totalitarian' web filter causes alarm http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block Internet chiefs call for checks, balances in censorship battle
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/internet_chiefs_call_for_checks_Ey7wPYhsXUaMqvnZavS1SP

Reckless Oz regulator runs roughshod over rights
http://www.zdnet.com/reckless-oz-regulator-runs-roughshod-over-rights-7000015473/

ASIC request sparks internet censorship
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/asic-request-sparks-internet-censorship/story-e6frgakx-1226644514861

New fears for web censorship in Australia
http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/59872-new-fears-for-web-censorship-in-australia

Just as WhatsApp enabled (free, non-SMS) cross communication between iOS and Android

And by free, you mean "with huge privacy implications", right?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/ibm-movie-atoms

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/ibm-movie-atoms

Vaporizing them isn't going to help much and it takes too much energy. It also has the risk of generating *more* space junk, just smaller. However, there is a proposal to use lasers against the growing cloud of space junk in orbit. This plan, however, isn't to vaporize them. The plan is to use the small momentum generated by photons to cause the junk to deorbit. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/29/laser-space-junk

Not US, nor UK, nor most other countries, TOR are not officially blocked, at the ISP level

You better check out this http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2009/06/features/the-hidden-censors-of-the-internet

Yes, this IS the UK we're talking about, now go cry a river to your representatives.

So far I do not think google has sued anyone, but who knows how long that record will last.

Really? A quick search with Google (ha!) finds:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/15/google-patent-suit-bt
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/08/18/the-empire-strike-back-googles-motorola-files-patent-suit-against-apple-to-block-u-s-imports/

I thought someone was going to reference the turning cells collected from urine into brain cells.

Maybe someone should piss on the faces of the people who designed windows 8?

I... I tried.

If your smartphone runs at about 4 watts then you could try and run it on teh cold fusions

couldn't find an online source in 30 seconds, but i vaguely remember in the papers ages ago there was some stealth plane that was supposedly brought down (maybe the F-117 in 1999 but i can't remember exactly). there was some mention about using cell phone towers or something to look for interference in signal. not saying the papers are always right, but i remember it kinda made sense at the time.

the only link i found that is even remotely related is one about the EADS passive radar network, which seems to be based on a similar concept. have a squiz if you're interested.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/01/radar-detects-stealth-aircraft

also the wiki article on passive radar (but still no mention of the stealth plane brought down unfortunately)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar#Advantages_and_disadvantages

maybe i'm off my tree, but i doubt i could have linked passive radar to bringing down of stealth airplanes on my own (until now i never knew it was called passive radar... i just googled "cell phone stealth shootdown")

by 2015 EVERYTHING will have a touch screen.

I love touchscreen, and most people are very happy with using a touch screen. I would *love* a 27" touch screen monitor, hell little Android windows running all over it. It would be great...just most of us are against sacrificing the current wimp experience + keyboard and mouse, for whole touched experience [including hardware that doesn't support it] , but Microsoft have done it for a mobile market grab.

As for using Apple as a barometer for the future of technology. I think you need to look elsewhere, its kind of depressing seeing that Video http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/20/bill-gates-mobile-phones where Bill wasn't his usual diplomatic self, and let his pride slip in. Most here had an mp3/tablet/smartphone/portable handheld computer before Apple had invented the market...hell want a smart TV, buy an AndroidTV dongle for $40

They are everywhere anyway, and a good number of them are open to be used by anyone. And don't forget your own webcam.And don't forget that now everyone carries cameras at the very least with their cellphones, ready to take a photo or video and getting uploaded to social networks without you noticing.. and getting tagged.

Is not about cameras what i should be worried about, is the interactivity with them in real time, like fact checking about the people and places you have around, that could be a game changer in social relations.

"AI" has always been that which AI can't do. Here are several activities that once were considered sci-fi-level AI but are no longer considered AI in a broad sense because we know how to do them more-or-less:
* Looking stuff up for us (Google);
http://www.google.com/
* Inferring questions from examples and answering questions posed in natural language (IBM's Watson);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)
* Generating hypotheses and doing hands/grippers-on scientific experiments (Adam);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist
* Reading text in multiple fonts reliably and quickly and cheaply;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
* translating one human language to another on the fly;
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.uit.innovation.html/
http://www.gizmag.com/go/1833/
* reading and translating signs;
http://questvisual.com/us/
* Making portraits;
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/11/tresset_robot_artist_artist_engineers_robots_to_make_art_and_save_his_own.single.html
* Playing the piano including from sheet music;
http://www.synthgear.com/2009/music-misc/synth-playing-robot/
http://gizmodo.com/5963137/watch-this-adorable-horde-of-intelligent-swarm-robots-play-piano
* Driving a car in busy traffic (Google, Stanford, CMU, others);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2007_Urban_Challenge
* Winning chess games (IBM's Deep Blue and pretty much any PC now against a mid-level player);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess
* Image recognition for quality control in factories;
http://www.general-vision.com/products/mtvs.php
* Recognizing faces;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
* Figuring out the name of a musical composition from a few notes as well as making new compositions and dynamic accompaniments;
http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_artificial_intelligence
* The diagnostic aspect of being a doctor (Watson again);
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/11/ibm-watson-medical-doctor
* Investing in volatile financial markets;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_trading
* Serving as a sentry with a machine gun;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YftEAbmMQ
* Twirling a cell phone;
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation
* Identifying things by smell;

All this an a sainted device from Google

Except people [including myself have been incredibly impressed with having a high resolution; quad-core; small tablet running latest Android....and so are the reviews. Top searches on Google

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/google-nexus-7-1087040/review 4.5 stars
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/tablets/379261/nexus-7 3x 5 out of 6 and 1x6 out of 6
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/1297408/google-nexus-7 5 out of 5 User 5 out of 5 expert
http://reviews.cnet.com/google-nexus-7/ 4 out 5
http://www.wired.co.uk/reviews/tablets/2012-11/google-nexus-7 9 out of 10
http://www.theverge.com/products/nexus-7/5831 8.8 expert 9.1 User
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/tablets/google-nexus-7.aspx 4 out of 5
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406552,00.asp 4.5 out of 5

I know you love Apple but right now Apple need compelling products, priced competitively not fanatics spreading lies. It simply tarnishes the Apple brand more, and its been damaged enough just lately.

Thermal imaging cameras have been demonstrated to be able to see your ATM code for up to a couple of minutes after you typed it, for example. So it's not entirely infeasible to see residual heat traces from brief contact for some minutes after the event. Note I'm not saying it's possible with current technology; the drone would have to be pretty close, pretty soon after you ran through, be equipped with a pretty good thermal imaging rig, and have very compliant environmental conditions for it to be vaguely possible with today's technology, but it's far from the most outlandish tech you'll see in a movie.

Are you saying Ouya and the Steam Box are just rumours? Because that clearly isn't true.