I've been thinking about this - we "see" in widescreen (i.e. without moving our eye we see more side-to-side than we do top-to-bottom) so it's no coincidence that this is the way things are going - the cinema industry had just led the way on providing this immersive experience of using a good amount of our visual field.
What I think there should be agreement on, though, is the fairly narrow gap between 16:9 and 16:10 for screen sizes so that my laptop and TV have the same res. And I'd also like to see a TV manufacturers produce a 2.35:1 TV so that movies can be played full screen without the big black bars. Unfortunately, 2.35:1 would make for stupid sized laptops so it's not going to work as a universal standard.
Any energy conversion process is going to less than 100% efficient, so for each watt you get out of your car-mounted turbines, you're going to sap more than a watt of power. Therefore, the net result is ALWAYS going to be a loss of power and reduce the distance the EV can travel on a charge. If I were you, I'd spend the money you were going to pay for the turbines on a basic physics textbook.
Or let's give someone enormous stilts so they can do the 100m in one stride and set a world record time of about 1 second... It's not about his condition, it's about competing fairly against other people on an equal basis in the same way that we ban performance-enhancing drugs.
...and bounces the sound off walls to simulate surround sound speakers. This is clever, I'll grant you, but it's still faux surround sound and highly dependent on the room you're in having good surfaces (curtains don't work, and you can't have anything in the way like other chairs, etc) to bounce off in good places, in particular for the rear speakers, which rely on bouncing off two walls - if you move, you can hear the sound as it comes off the first wall and the illusion is lost.
No, it doesn't - it only creates sound from the speakers in the bar, unless you break the unit up into pieces, wire them up and position them around the room.
That's all well and good, but he did also say "I don't see any SSDs" which makes the rest of his comments look more like he really thought they were regular SATA HDDs...
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
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