While we've got a Time Capsule rather than an Airport Extreme, they seem pretty similar (the built-in HD obviously excluded), and I've been pleasantly surprised by it. It's rock-solid, has decent range, looks nice, Airport Utility works great, and it's NAT-PMP implementation works especially well (I like poking ports open easily). I also find wireless printing oddly liberating as someone who rarely uses his computer on his desk.

The only real issue I have with it is that the Xbox 360 completely refuses to connect wirelessly to it, regardless of what I've tried, though the Wii and everything else I've tried works fine.

One thing I do recommend if you're planning to have any kind of even vaguely complicated network is that you have a read of the Designing Airport Networks doc, since it explains the various ways they can integrate into/create networks.

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Airport_Extreme_Gigabit_Setup_Guide.pdf

In terms of the video, it doesn't really change my mind as to hydrogen fuel cells to power vehicles being perhaps one of the stupidest possible ways to do so:

1. They're not much better environmentally since we tend to either make hydrogen from natural gas (thus emissions), or water, which uses more electricity than the hydrogen produced will ever give us.

2. They're not practical, as we'd need to build a huge number of expensive new filling stations (the inherent chicken & egg problem) and use more energy shipping the hydrogen to them.

3. At every stage of getting the energy originally in the form of natural gas or electricity to actually move a vehicle forward, we lose even more energy, and there are a number of steps.

4. Finally, both the hydrogen itself, as well as the vehicles, are very expensive. I'll leave you with the words of Takeo Fukui, the president of Honda, who are arguably the leaders in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles:

"Mr. Fukui said the cars cost several hundred thousand dollars each to produce, though he said that should drop below $100,000 in less than a decade as production volumes increase."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/business/worldbusiness/17fuelcell.html

Again, GM with the fuel cell vaporware. It's been years now. How about the real pure-electric cars they recalled and crushed?

@MAF

Although I certainly didn't like what they did with the EV1, I really think the Chevy Volt (not a concept car) is probably the most exciting vehicle I've seen in recent years since it goes around 40 miles using nothing but electricity (enough for the vast majority of trips).

What really sets it apart from ordinary electric vehicles is that for longer journeys it has a small, highly efficient internal-combustion engine to recharge the battery and extend the range by another 320 miles (at around 50MPG). If you need to go further than 360 miles, just fill it up.

While I seriously doubt it would get anywhere near to providing 60% of a typical home's electricity use with what I've read about the real world performance of small wind turbines, I'd really like to be proved wrong, especially assuming that price point is accurate.

Though as Technogeek notes, there are a number of extra things you need to actually get the DC it'll produce into home-usable and grid-exportable AC, with those things likely costing a few times more than it does (a decent inverter for it could be $2k on it's own etc.).

I'm not entirely sure why they only seem to be available with said packaging from Amazon UK, but regardless, they're still great headphones. Comfortable, great sounding, with surprisingly decent sound blocking, especially since they (albeit silently...) revised them a little while ago to give them an iPhone-friendly jack.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-CX300-Eco-Headphones-Black/dp/B000S8EUNM

Presuming recycling of products should be a manufacturer's responsibility in the first place, will it take government regulation to enact these sort of initiatives?

A number of companies have already done this to an extent, though I think it really will take government intervention to make it a much wider reality. Although it's still reasonably early days in terms of the WEEE directive in Europe, it's going to be interesting to see the degree to which companies actually comply with it in terms of how difficult/easy it is to get the tech we're buying today taken back in a few years.

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