How in the /hell/ does a TV pull 1kW?

It must blend smoothies.

DO WANT

SNACKS ON SNACKS

@Dan, Squiggleslash:

I think you guys bring up a very important subject. If I were either very wealthy or of keen business sense, I might be a proponent of the current evolution of the patent system. Unfortunately I'm just a guy who wants to bring a cool idea to the world - I could feasibly pay for one round on a full patent filing, but I certainly couldn't bear the legal costs of a lawsuit where the bigger fish has a team of the best lawyers that can talk my case out of a courtroom.

In my particular case, there are patents already existing for just about every aspect of the system, and from many years ago. However, there are less than a handful or companies that have done anything with them to any appreciable result. I've already made working models of my idea, to great fanfare by whomever sees it, but if I were to invest my life-savings or get investment capital I'm afraid I would lose it immediately.

How is anyone expected to innovate when the big, lazy extremely-broad-patent holders are just waiting for someone else to prove that a market exists before yanking power away from them?

Haha!

And I jizzed in my pants.

Whoa, that's actually an awesome idea!

JABBA NO BAAATHA

Are you kidding me? Subscription based GPS?

Wasn't the reason behind declassifying the use of GPS satellites to give the people free use of a far-less accurate (as compared to the military's use) but still usable guidance platform?

It seems to me that this will create a surge in open-source GPS hardware and take sales away from Nokia and other fee-based receivers. Not that I'm complaining, GPS is kinda easy to work with and I don't like recurring expenses. =]

Looks like all those developers will now be able to give BACK to the pr0n industry!

I just hope the first prototype is electrically isolated... =D

To clarify SuperQ's reply:

Any generation of energy in one form takes an expenditure of energy in another form. If you wanted to generate energy from the car's movement the only way that would be useful would be to do regenerative braking. Otherwise, the energy you pump into the wheels will be immediately reabsorbed by this axle-mounted generator resulting in little movement.

If any of these electric car companies can provide a perpetual-motion machine option in their cars I'll take it, though. =P