Maybe if they made it fly 1.5 inches off the ground they could market it as a lawnmower.

I wouldn't want my product to be the Segway of anything.

At least when the platform under your feet gives out the resulting bits of you left after going through the worlds biggest food processor will quickly nourish the earth and hopefully grow enough plant material quickly enough to cover the remnants of the most rediculous idea in human transport since, well, the Segway.

Maybe they could remarket this as an alternative to cremation to the granola-crunchers to avoid leaving that last firm and final carbon footprint on the earth.

The future of power generation is micro-generation at the household level. Let me have one of these on the roof of my house.

And make one small enough to sit on top of my head to power my gadgets while you're at it :) And one to sit on my desk, so I can blow on it every once in a while.

How about micro-generators on every door in your house, in the office where you work too? Everytime someone opens a door it generates a wee bit of electricity (ironically to power the electric doors at the grocery store).

Sure we need these massive high capacity power generation stations, and I like the looks of this and other wind powered ideas, but get me some realistic generating capacity at home and then we're talking.

So, when I'm using this 'laptop' on my lap, what image shows up in the ultrasound?

Actually, Tintin (the character you speak of) is known as quite the detective and logical thinker. So it shouldn't be so suprising.

And I'd rather take on the moniker of a children's comic book character than a dog's chew toy. ;)

No cop is going to dust a $300 or whatever kid's toy for prints. Heck, they could care less if your $1500 mountain bike gets stolen.

Hey, I don't need to win it! I'll bring a couple of my Canadian dollars down to the US and buy one ;)

Even without a credit card (as of course if you're ballsy enough to try this, you're likely smart enough to pay cash at one store and return it to another store, out of state if you can) if they have security footage of the day, which of course they do, they could easily narrow down the hunt to a very small group of people, if not the one person.

How many 360's get returned in a given day? A few? How many refunded in cash? 1 or 2? There's your guy. Correlate the interior security video to the exterior camera video and you likely have the make and model of the idiot's car - possibly the plate.

All good reasons not to bother doing this to save yourself what, a couple hundred bucks? If you're going to commit a crime, go big or go home.

Great! So now I can drive with no headlights, and pretend its 1978 and I'm playing the old driving arcade games.

Perhaps they can equip these with those retina burning lasers so they can burn through the layers of snow and ice.

Are the white buttons intended to remind the user on a daily basis that they should have just bought an iPod?