Reminds me of that story a while back where Elmo ostensibly asked "Who wants to die?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av1HN5Vea7g

He was actually saying "Who wants to GO" but, you know, people want to hear evil things coming out of their innocent toys, so...

In psychology I believe this is referred to as projection.

"How do I share my smartphone connection" is actually a common question. There was a news item a few weeks ago about a free app for WM6 that shares the cellular data connection over WiFi:

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2007/12/use-a-3g-window.html

http://www.jongma.org/WMWifiRouter/

As for the iPhone, I understand one can do the same thing, if you don't mind jailbreaking your iPhone:

http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/tether-your-iphone

The question is WHY. :-) The EDGE connection is already painfully slow, and you want to share it with "friends?" Are these friends you want to KEEP? LOL

The "Penfield Mood Organ" was actually invented.

It's called an iPod. ;-)

You just dial through your playlists and songs until you find a song that matches the mood you want to attain. Need to perk up? Pick something fast. Need to chill? Pick something slow. Want to have a good cry? Pick something sad. Want to cheer up? Pick something happy.

Like the Penfield Mood Organ, the iPod is a common home appliance that can be used to easily change emotional states from "self-accusatory depression" to "awareness of the manifold possibilities open to me in the future" to a "businesslike, professional attitude."

The novel even opens with Deckard being awakened by "a merry little surge of electricity from the mood organ beside his bed," which sounds like one of those clock radio iPod docks.

Sweet!

No, it's what Marty McFly would look like after traveling from 2015 back to 1985 in order to have his hair lightened.

Your "blue" aunt...?

Hmmm. "Pattern Recognition" was published in 2003, but press releases for BlueAnt (Australia) only go back to 2004. Possibly a case of Gibson living in an unequally distributed future again.

The headset company is called "BlueAnt" or "Blueant," but I think the fictional version is two words, "Blue Ant."

Or maybe that's what Hubertus Bigend wants us to think...

They didn't give it a low rating because it was a car that couldn't *fly.* Cars don't fly. They gave it a low rating because it was a small, cramped, noisy, ugly, unreliable, underpowered car that would only hit 55 miles per hour while being driven off a cliff.

It's the Yugo of the PC world.

Lord only knows why Google let their name get plastered all over this product, with its "Google conceptual OS." (Is that like a beta?) Perhaps the future is like Terry Gilliam's "Brazil?"

I guess it can be said a Yugo beats not having a car at all, but it seems like there might be better choices out there (e.g. factory refurbished PC, ASUS Eee). Consumer Reports told people that a nice used car was better than a new Yugo; perhaps the same advice applies here.

FORD PREFECT: This must be one of those Lazlar Lyricon custom jobs! Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, shifts like a cow.

This was cute. All it needed was Santa riding a wireless Mighty Mouse through the snow a la the Norelco electric razor.

Those of you who find Rankin-Bass parodies nostalgic should also check out the AFLAC commercial featuring Rudolph:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJbX0oPWyxQ