I'm pretty sure you don't need to pay after a year for the (third-party based) TV guide - you can just sign up again.

More fundamentally, how can they stick a sheet of GLASS in front of the screen and still make the lid so thin? In the second picture the lid is clearly no thicker than the current MBP. That couldn't happen. It's either a sheet of plastic (based on the "warping" of the reflection in the first photo it might be), which would probably look cheap/awful in the flesh, or it's fake, based on an imac.

I don't understand the lighting in this photo. The screen is angled back and it's brightly lit from above as shown in the reflection, so why is there such a clear "shadow" on one half of the keyboard?

Again, that appears to be a standard absorption refrigerator, not an Einstein refrigerator - it's a different refrigeration cycle. What you linked to actually sounds very similar to a modern-day more compact version of a 1920's "Icy ball":

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

Much like Grosser's device, it's intermittent - you heat it up in the morning, it cools all day.

This research is looking at a different type of refrigeration cycle, which nobody seems to have developed further. Also, the mention of solar for heating implies they're looking at developing a more continuous device, which doesn't require daily user intervention.

DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. From the article:

"But McCulloch thinks that by tweaking the design and replacing the types of gases used it will be possible to quadruple the efficiency."

That one sentence deals with all the "problems" you point out. They intend to replace the gases, and they intend to improve the efficiency; that's the whole point of the research.

This is different to an absorption refrigerator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

Actually, this is not an absorption refrigerator, but an Einstein refrigerator, a similar but nevertheless different design. Electrolux bought up the patents to protect their own technology from the competition, but to the best of my knowledge it was never developed further or commercialised.

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

Way to completely miss the point. Improving the design such as to use different gases is the whole point of the research.

Apart from the isight and logo, this does look VERY similar to a mockup I just found on google images:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5280608&postcount=318

I'm going with fake too.

Brian, if you're reading this, please stop now! What you've come up with is a Sinclair C5, only 30 years later, probably even heavier, and even more impractical (How do you get in it? Crawl through a hole in the back?).

The C5 was a spectacular failure, and this is even worse. Battery-assisted conventional bikes and trikes are available, and all this does is pointlessly add weight and ruin the handling, for sake of little more weather protection than can be got from a set of mudguards and a jacket (in actually bad weather a high-sided three-wheeler is the last place I'd want to be - even if it didn't tip over, the front end would never stay put unless you weigh it down, making the thing even more impractically heavy!)