@1: I had one of those! I also had a lame one like that that had a plastic grenade on top of the striking point, making it unwieldy to fire the cap in any manner but "stabbing" the grenade against a surface. Mmmm...... I can smell the caps now....

#1 & #2: Just don't mistake a real stapler for this vibe.

Knowing how the Dynabee/Powerball works(I love mine - they're fun), I'd be afraid of accidentally dropping this thing and having it go apeshit on the floor.

#7: That's funny - it makes me want to be rich.

#22: Some amount of truth and a convincing amount of truth are very different, unless American culture(there's only one?) has indeed claimed my mind. There's a huge difference between shooting at known empty cars and at other people at school that you know, let alone "friends". As for needing people to fight in Iraq, well, "needing to send more people to Iraq" is in itself questionable. Without any additional context, your friend's comment sounds flippant and thoughtless.

I think that the event is a fun and really cool idea; go and fire guns that you're not supposed to ever own. The bad part is that I know that a lot of attendees have a very different mindset about this kind of event, especially considering that they'll have dealers there. Ugh. It's very appropriate that the website has "Pray for America" at the top left.

I totally agree that 7 year old + machine gun = WTF. At least get some double-digits on that kid first.

Don't try to bite them off!

Have someone else do that for you.

#16: No, he's already done it right, which is why he thought of that.

I think the redeeming feature is the coal lighter. For the vacuum thing, couldn't you just make a house vacuum attachment or a handheld pump thing to cycle air or water through it? Hell, this is Boing Boing; where's the penis pump shisha cleaning attachment?

Wow - if you lift the fish out of the water, they *will* choke... how appropriate.

Though not as elegant, I thought you could use those talking watches for this purpose.

I like the irony of the Color tab.

Awesome - thanks for putting it all up here so I don't have to give them hits - the Wii is total flame/hit-bait.

#3: I see nothing wrong with wanting GPS on a phone to get around and let you know where you are. If you believe that maps are not there to help you find out where you are, then perhaps you've never been lost in a city you're not familiar with. Besides, you need to know where you are to get to where you're going.

I definitely consider this to be a weakness with the iPhone, which is irritating because I like other things about it, and I'm hoping there'll be a way to use an actual GPS receiver with it, particularly for something like geotagging photos somehow.

On the other hand, from the demo in the video, Sprint's "you are here" map is a bad example, as it's zooooooooooomed in too far, and makes the map look difficult to use, whereas the Google map looks way more functional. They should show routing if they want to show how it might be better.

Ohhhhhhhh.... it's a big strap that you place over the keyboard and close the laptop over. That degrades it from "cool" to "retarded and potentially catastrophic", especially as many laptops don't have latching covers. I was under the previous impression that it attached to hinge points or theft prevention holes, which would be cool.

Also, #3 is right - Flash has its place, but not as the entire webpage. Ugh.

Um, FYI - I also have one, but I would not use this as a replacement for a personal trainer + gym. Nintendo labels it as WiiFit, but they've already admitted that it's less about exercise and more about "body awareness", where the main "test" is a balance test in terms of "when you stand, is your weight centered?".

I haven't tried the skiing or DecaSports games yet though, and I do think that it will be a platform for more serious fitness games in the future. *ahem*

In regards to #14, it's so that you call them to move it, because they'd rather have you do that than to get a ticket. Some shop owners will watch your car and yell for you when a cop is coming by so you can move your car too. I take photos here 'n there, and I had a shop owner get nervous once because they thought I was a cop taking pictures for traffic tickets when I was just taking a picture of a funny sticker.

#4 - sounds like the same system they use in the US with heels and faces, as well as the variety in characters with the exception of Furries.

Maasai runners were on last Friday's BBC Global News podcast, FYI.

Ugh - Metamonk182 beat me to it.

#2: you do realize though, that most baby toys, including teething rings, are likely to come from China too? Also, chances are you may have cups, spoons, and/or other objects also from China that go into your mouth. Hooray for cheap (and often questionable) factories!

wait, so if you let this thing touch say, a piece of poo, it becomes clean poo then? Get to work, nanosilvers!

Could be awesome for crackin' in bulk, like for a restaurant or bakery. Hell, it'd be even better if you could have an egg loader or clip for it.

.....and yet Sony's designs are still badass.

It's all fun and games until we bring in the trebuchets.

#3 Although it's redundant, I think that it's totally fine to "sign" your name at the end of an e-mail or post. If you want to think of it another way, you still sign your name after writing a letter on stationary with your name in the letterhead.

I had this happen semi-recently in January on a trip out of the US at LAX - I heard sudden loud yelling from a guy, something like "BOMB!" or something, and everybody was very much WTF and scared. We assumed it was a drill, since nobody was being moved or restrained, and no object was being inspected. Cute.

Reminds me of me and my friend's idea of naked runners that wear nothing and try to map the entire WoW world by running(scared) everywhere and never fighting, occasionally leveling up by the XP gained from just finding new areas.

I still proclaim love for one trackball only - the old Kensington Expert Mouse, which had a huge trackball that could be replaced with a billiard/pool ball if you wanted. They have a modern version which is slightly smaller I think, and $100. Expert Mouse + Quake 2 = Fond memories of making my brother mad.

I also agree that it's really useful for times when you don't really have a good mousing surface - I don't consider my leg to be a proper mousing surface either, and trackballs are WAY nicer to use than gyro mice.

@Rob

eaddict said "no safety instructions", not "no safety glasses" when referring to the loaded gun, which matches your "The point is..." comment, making your response kind of redundant.

Overall, I think the idea is simply let your kids experiment, and keep an eye on them like responsible parent is supposed to.

3 cups 1 lamp?

Sorry, it just came to mind.

"Do they not have sinks, baths or buckets already in Britain?"

Yeah, but you can't plug them in.

I dunno if it's necessarily a blender though, since it looks like there's space underneath for a sterno can, which can only mean one thing: Baby Fondue.

@Halloween Jack: "And I always did wonder what was on the side of the building that they didn't show. Probably the Rooms of Awesome Shit That They're Going To Show Next Month, Honest."

Bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, quarry.

In such a serious conversation, I'm almost embarrassed to say that I LOLed at "A speaker blasted him with continuous white noise, or rap music, 24 hours a day."

Almost.

Is it fully edible? If not, it is fail.

2 feet 1 cup

Sorry, it had to be said.

Agreed with the "it's only $3 really" comment - these are a cultural staple here in Taiwan, and you can find them easily for less than $3 at any department store, and in much bigger sizes too. As for "no toxic fumes", that doesn't include that you aerosolize the bug a bit on electrosplosion contact, though I really don't think it's enough of a big deal unless you're the sort who carries around Lysol wipes to open doors with. The racquet works wonders when simply waving them around windows to get rid of mosquitoes.

I'm sold.

I saw one on open display here in Taiwan, and while the unit looked nice, was a really good ultra-portable size, and was a cheap notebook(about 3K USD), I don't know how capable it will be for some users; the display was running its custom OS(some kinda Linux maybe?) that was very simple, and had Firefox open and looking at one webpage.

This would be fine if the unit wasn't insanely unresponsive - using the touchpad was rather difficult in that it wouldn't respond very well, the left click button felt like crap and didn't really register, and moving the Firefox window took a long time. It felt the same as a normal PC responds when given too much to work on with not enough memory; stuttered, delayed, and only responsive in periodic bursts. The thing that really made me wonder is that Firefox was the only program running, and it wasn't loaded up with pages or anything.

For potential buyers, I'd recommend trying to get a hands-on before buying it, or at least seeing video of it being used by a normal person(not a salesperson). I still recognize the fact that while the price is approaching that of normal, Windows, non-gimped laptop computers, those computers aren't nearly as fucking tiny nor light as this thing, which is a huge plus.

They've had announcements reiterating the "no mobile phones" thing here, as well as a mention about no flight authority recognizing claims that in-flight modes don't have any effect in a article here: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/10/10/2003382477.

Here, I'd say it's asshats on both sides. Both people were trying to show dominance over each other when they both had clear signs that they were being retarded. Kind of an idiot pissing match in my opinion.