A company I used to have dealings with obviously read the course notes to this subject!

At trade shows, they'd have an unreleased new version of their main product with a 'preliminary' datasheet and not-plugged-in prototype. The boss would quiz punters who seemed interested in exactly which of the new features had grabbed their attention.

After the trade show, the poor engineers would get a list of the most desired features and be told that orders were in hand, now quickly implement this list!

I don't need backside illumination, my backside has sunshine coming out of it already!

Don't forget that B&N bought fictionwise/ereader a few months ago, who were the leaders in ebook publishing.

So, they've already got themselves into the game and can probably leverage that back-catalogue to sell hardware if they're sensible about making it easy to read ebooks in lots of formats on this device.

One of those movies where the discussion with friends over coffee later is interesting.

Where did the torture-induced dream sequence start? Just how much of the surreality was the 'real world' and how much was only in the protagonist's mind?

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A commercial-sized version of this was recently demonstrated in Perth, Western Australia and seemed to have much thought put into it.

The moving parts are large and simple and all the complicated turbines, etc are on the shore, where it's easy to work on them.
Desalination is possible using high-pressure seawater (reverse osmosis), so it can be used for fresh-water generation as well as power.

As others have said, why limit ourselves to only one method of generating electricity? Use wind where it's windy, solar where it's sunny, wave/tidal where it's wet, and geothermal where it's shaky!

I use PalmVNC on my Palm TX (same screen size) and it's great for seeing what's been happening on my PC overnight before getting out my warm bed on a cold morning (it's winter in Oz, y'see.)
Not a replacement for sitting at the PC, but still useful to have.

I see it as somewhat like those people who sell classic novels in various e-book formats. They can all be downloaded from Gutenburg for free (which is where the paid-for ones came from), but it's worth a couple of bucks to many people to be able to treat it like any other e-book from their seller of choice.

If you look at the map, there's fewer than a hundred Nigerians signed up. Now, that's strange, since I've received emails from thousands of Nigerians, so I know they're all on the Net!

My Nikon Coolpix has wi-fi, which I originally thought was a gimmick (which is, of course, why I bought it!)

However, it's become most useful.

I used to bring the camera in, download the photos, then forget to take the camera with me next time I went out. Photo opp; no camera.

Now, I can set a transfer going from the car because our wireless router covers the garage and the camera stays in the car where I'm likely to need it. (And, being built-in to the camera, there's menu options to make it more flexible)

You can always move/delete/resize your images on your PC once they've transferred. Wi-Fi bandwidth at home is free!