I think it lives up to the name Stylistic quite well. At least I'm certain it's supposed to be a frankenword cobbled together from stylus and plastic.

I'd like to see a full spec tablet from a company like Asus, who've lately managed to produce a stylish gem or two among their selection of more standard slabs.

Neat idea, but for those that don't mind a bit more handling there should be plenty of used Minolta Dimage scanners and similar with twice the resolution and up to get for the same price.

Something else I've thought about is the option to use a slide duplicator on a dSLR. I've seen pretty nice ones with zoom/crop function for $100 or so, and with my EOS 5D that might be a nice option to get quick digitization at a pretty decent resolution.

@Dondelny: Maybe the Japanese acrylic contraptions Joel posted yesterday would be something to extend the baseplate idea? :)

Can't remember any brand names off the top of my head, but if you look around a bit you should be able to find cases where the whole plate that holds the motherboard can be slid out through the back to give easier access to the board. Lian-Li has some nice and roomy cases as well, but they have a price tag that requires a bit of consideration.

To tie this post together with the one about Open Tech: http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11770144/Smart_Mobile_Phone.html

Apparently it runs Mac OS X v10.4.8...

This feels a bit like reviewing a novel after reading the dedications and the epilogue... 30 minutes isn't much of any game, and less so of one that's said to have over 100 hours of gameplay.

One thing that's worried me from the screenshots and videos is the lack of NPC allies, something that was a key element in the original games. Of course Bethesda could have skipped that, but maybe it's more likely that they are holding that as long as possible since finding out who you can recruit is a part of the experience.

When will we see the Gillette equivalent with it's ridiculously overpriced top-ups but incredibly smooth five-band system...?

I think that if you can afford €2000 (and up) carafes you can afford to hire the pixies needed to clean them as well.

I think I need to get one of those and wear it when I play Fallout 3 by the end of the year.

So... excuse the ignorant Swede... but is this FCC the Federal Church of Christ and, if so, why do you have them in charge of regulating communications?

I've had a glance at Le Corbusier's work, and it seems a lot of his ingenuity is found on the inside as well, with efficient use of daylight and so on. It's something I didn't get to see when I was in Paris and someone had overlooked the fact that tours were by appointment only when we visited his Villa la Roche-Jeanneret...

Oh, and I think I have to monitor the comments here for rollerball mentions. A while ago I found a Bic Exact-Tip in a drawer, and realized it was an excellent sketching/doodling pen thanks to its flow that gave lines character and an ability to cover larger areas.

But while it had gathered dust in a drawer Bic had discontinued the model, and I'm looking for a new liquid ink roller pen to replace it. I think I'll check out Proto's UniBall next time I pass a stationery store.

I'm not sure what my first gadget was. I remember getting a Zippo lighter when I was quite young and was quite fascinated by it (even though it was quite some years before I had my first smoke). I think it was something about the genuineness compared to disposable lighters.

I did have a thing for a writing instrument in my late teens. It was a Rotring Multipen that managed to combine the functions of a gel pen, a mechanical pencil and a highlighter in an actually functional package. It had a very nice weight, and you selected the function you wanted by rotating the pen so that the appropriate part fell into place before pushing down.

I wonder when they'll slap a camera onto that to emulate their now discontinued analog direct imaging system...

Obviously the onion is hiding something. Why would it otherwise wear pants when the pickles and the other veggies aren't?

Bandwidth is cheap (my web host as well as others give 5TB/month and more on $9.95 plans), so as I see it the only reason for capping subscribers is to cram more of them onto the ISPs local infrastructure without having to spend anything upgrading its capacity.

I jumped straight into the post without reading the title, and your key slip had me scratching my head for a moment – trying to conjure up a vision of how a steam powered photograph would work. But then I realized that any steampunk aficionado would have referred to that as a daguerreotype and mentally corrected the error before watching the video.

I like the idea of an easily reached mute switch, but that sounds horrible. A firm slider switch would probably be the best thing.

And yes, the KOSS Sparkplugs (as well as the regular The Plug) are horrible. Or, they are rather low-fidelity, designed to give an impression of heavy bass and appeal to techno kids and similar.

I've been using cheapish (€25-30) Cresyn phones. While I won't claim they compete with Bose or Shure phones costing three times that much, they sound great without being so expensive that you'd curl up in the fetal position for a good cry on the street if they should snag on something.

Thanks, Xeni. I really needed that one.

Is that key printed leather stretched over the keyboard...? Can't really work that out.

And the images makes the bottom half look like a fiberglass part straight out of the mold...

I once imagined keeping myself very fit with a workstation built around a recumbent exercise bike. At least I imagine it would be more comfortable to integrate training that way rather than with the Walkstation's treadmill.

I'm on 20Mbps DSL (16Mbps or so according to benchmarks), and I can't say I wouldn't want to be without it for long. In fact, I'm eagerly awaiting the day when the housing company's decision to hook all their buildings up to the town WAN reaches me and I can get a 100Mbps connection that way.

It might be true that there are few areas where you have any actual use for all that bandwidth – but it still has benefits even in areas that don't include the download of large, mostly illicit media files. It's for example pretty neat to have a 20 minute embedded video buffered in no time so you are free to skip as you need. And of course, it enables multitasking.

So yes, I'm probably addicted to bandwidth.

That does it. I'm never going to get a real job in a real company – I'm sure any hint of this kind of corporate culture would indeed motivate me, though... motivate all the way through the door and down the street, the disbelief turned into a hysterical laughter as I throw away whatever little scrap of belief in the human kind that I previously had and start reenacting the actions of Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

I guess the adaptation was inevitable. Would have been great if James Cameron could have had a go at it, or maybe even the Wachowskis who made a whole trilogy inspired by/ripped off from it.

But I guess Spielberg is acceptable. Minority Reports wasn't half bad, and the mid part of AI had a bit of the appropriate cyberpunkish mood.

At least it's not Uwe Boll...

I suggest anyone to get a couple of buddies, a decent amount of alcohol and the Total Balalaika Show DVD, which features the 1993 performance with the full 160 strong choir in front of a crowd of 70,000 in Helsinki. The resulting combination of humor and booming magnificence is brilliant.

As rezmason said in #7 it's done with MotionPortrait. I've seen the kind of images before, and when I looked at the MotionPortrait about page they have the same woman as one of their product examples.

But I have to admit it's gorgeous. Unless you see yourself or someone you know animated that way, maybe... I used a similar program to animate and lip sync a photo of a friend, and she admitted being a bit creeped out after she stopped laughing.

It isn't time for April Fools until Monday...

The Daily Mail article mentions plans for a device that used an R/C car to fire a toy gun.

I wonder how close to the article's illustration the result was...

Looks really neat... but I think I'll have to wait for the matching headboard that extends storage for those of us who have 4-5 books by the bed.

Only contact info besides mail is a cell phone, domain was registered three weeks ago... so I think it does have a hoaxy smell to it.

If it hadn't been for the whole Vulcan/elf-thing, I could actually imagining having a pair of those.

I've never gotten into the whole surround sound thing – with a combined living room/workplace that would mean too much wires to get tangled in, but this looks nifty. I wonder what could be done if the concept was extended to a front and rear unit. Even with a separate subwoofer that would still be much easier to place than a 5.1 setup.

I believe the "guard" actually is the Integrierter Edelstahl-Brötchenaufsatz, or "integrated high-grade steel bread roll attachment", mentioned in the product page. Germans eat a lot of bread rolls, and in my experience it seems all toasters in Germany come with some sort of mechanism to allow rolls to be toasted on top of them.

This selection made me wonder why I didn't get a Mac again, but before going to craigslist looking for someone in the market for a kidney/MacBook Pro trade, I hit Google and found Dark Room for Windows. I really like the concept, and that might work until I have a good excuse for buying more hardware.

It would be possible to build a DSLR that fast by using a "non-flapping" mirror. Canon's EOS-1n RS SLR used a fixed mirror that reflected some light to the viewfinder and the rest to the film. Gave the camera 10fps and extremely fast shutter response at the cost of 2/3 f-stop and a darker viewfinder (but with the benefit of not having the blackout of a closing mirror).