While I'm sure the original price tag will be steep, this product could actually have some pretty sweet applications.
Imagine a singular device, the size of a cell phone, that could be a wholly working portable computer. You set it down and it projects a screen wherever you need it. Imagine that projector with something like this, and some sort of mouse replacement, and you'd have all your IO needs on the go. Instead of being restricted to tiny screens and keyboards, your portable device could be competition for your main desktop (which seems to be the route that consumer electronics are heading).
I know I can't wait for the day when I carry around one wallet sized (or smaller) device that is an audio player, a cell phone, and feature complete computer, capable of being used for the same applications my laptop is for, but with far less weight and size. Hopefully with devices like this, I won't have to wait until I'm near dead to enjoy such luxuries.
The store mentioned in TFA looks pretty shady to begin with, with products like "iPod Nano Alike" and such [Quote from site; "Why pay more for iPod Nano where you can get this better funtioned MP3 player for just 1/5 of the price?"].
Usually it's a question whether the consumers should wise up, or whether cheap knockoffs should be removed due to copyright infringement. But in this case where one company is blatantly putting another company's label on their inferior product, that's undoubtedly when the law needs to fix things.
It's good that Big blue is doing something to stop this, but part of me doesn't have much sympathy for someone who would order parts from a site like that.
What TFA fails to realize is that spam comes in many more forms than simply emails.
My local lan group runs a PHPBB forum, which kept getting rather mysterious "people" registering with advertising in their "web site" profile field. Granted, we've ramped up our security, but from time to time bots still register.
Likewise, if you look at many youtube videos nowadays, tons of comments are just obvious spam and other automated messages. Not as directly targeted as email per se, but still spam nonetheless.
Spam isn't dead, the spammers have simply realized that there is a whole demographic of people (generally in their teens to early 20's), who use less email and more social networking style (or dare I say "Web 2.0") services like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Gaia, etc.
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While I'm sure the original price tag will be steep, this product could actually have some pretty sweet applications.
Imagine a singular device, the size of a cell phone, that could be a wholly working portable computer. You set it down and it projects a screen wherever you need it. Imagine that projector with something like this, and some sort of mouse replacement, and you'd have all your IO needs on the go. Instead of being restricted to tiny screens and keyboards, your portable device could be competition for your main desktop (which seems to be the route that consumer electronics are heading).
I know I can't wait for the day when I carry around one wallet sized (or smaller) device that is an audio player, a cell phone, and feature complete computer, capable of being used for the same applications my laptop is for, but with far less weight and size. Hopefully with devices like this, I won't have to wait until I'm near dead to enjoy such luxuries.
The store mentioned in TFA looks pretty shady to begin with, with products like "iPod Nano Alike" and such [Quote from site; "Why pay more for iPod Nano where you can get this better funtioned MP3 player for just 1/5 of the price?"].
Usually it's a question whether the consumers should wise up, or whether cheap knockoffs should be removed due to copyright infringement. But in this case where one company is blatantly putting another company's label on their inferior product, that's undoubtedly when the law needs to fix things.
It's good that Big blue is doing something to stop this, but part of me doesn't have much sympathy for someone who would order parts from a site like that.
What TFA fails to realize is that spam comes in many more forms than simply emails. My local lan group runs a PHPBB forum, which kept getting rather mysterious "people" registering with advertising in their "web site" profile field. Granted, we've ramped up our security, but from time to time bots still register. Likewise, if you look at many youtube videos nowadays, tons of comments are just obvious spam and other automated messages. Not as directly targeted as email per se, but still spam nonetheless. Spam isn't dead, the spammers have simply realized that there is a whole demographic of people (generally in their teens to early 20's), who use less email and more social networking style (or dare I say "Web 2.0") services like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Gaia, etc.