I'm looking forward to 2015 or so, when 3GPP Release 10 should be rocking (AKA LTE Advanced), and delivering, oh, up to a GIGABIT to your mobile device through the thin air. Uh, YEAH. *GRIN*

This is not a silly camera, it is the bomb and is actually pretty revolutionary. But if you don't know why, you are probably not even close to the intended audience.

Shipping, has been for a while.

You're off-base methinks. SATA II is 3Gbit/s, so if you have a RAID of several drives, having Firewire "S3200" would be pretty useful -- more akin to eSATA in speed, and pretty close to 4Gbit fibre channel. This kind of thing is pretty pointless for consumers, and pretty useful for video folks. A single stream of uncompressed HD video (4:2:2 10-bit 720p60 or 1080i60) is about 160MB/s (that's bytes, not bits.) This S3200 standard would allow you to pull two of those streams at once off an external RAID device, which, for instance, would allow you to do a realtime cross-dissolve on uncompressed HD in Final Cut Pro without having to render the effect just to see what it looks like. Some devices and connection interfaces already allow for this, such as this guy: http://www.dulcesystems.com/html/pro_dq.html

Eff that! I feel bad for folks who can't take anesthetics. I can't imagine having a dental procedure like a tooth extraction without it. Uhg.

DIE NTSC DIE DIE DIE!!!! BRING ON ATSC!!!! GIMME MY DTV!!!!

1.5Mbps? I get about a Megabit, little more a lot of the time, using my Sprint EV-DO Rev A card. I thought WiMax was going to be a significant improvement over 3G? What gives?

I want this thing so bad -- anyone know who is likely to import these to the USA?

Is Uncle Sam covering the full cost of the converter? The article isn't super clear as to whether the $40 coupon covers the entire cost.

• This girl was a moron, nobody with common sense would do this -- either she was looking for a reaction, or is a spacey MIT student (def. a possibility -- people can be nerds and lack many real-world common-sense skills -- as this forum demonstrates constantly.)

• Logan was one of the main points of departure for the 9/11 terrorists, let's not forget. They have every right to be jumpy.

• Who int he hell is stupid enough to wear ANYTHING that resembles ANY kind of circuit to the airport? I mean come on -- wires sticking out, battery, gooey stuff/play-doh. It DOES kind of look like a bomb, and if I saw someone at an airport fronting a getup like that, _I_ would report them to security -- and I'm pretty progressive.

• I love seeing non-Americans go on and on about how "gestapo" the USA is -- when the UK, Australia, Canada, etc. etc. have MUCH tighter controls on many personal freedoms than in the USA. I mean come on, the UK tracks every single license plate on every major road in realtime! That's infinitely more "Big Brother" than anything we have going on in the States. Glass houses, stones...? Oh, I give up.