I remember the pre-802.11 day sitting out on the back patio with my laptop connected to the Internet. It was through one of those giant battery packs that clipped onto the back of your monitor, worked like a cordless phone, and transmitted at 14.4kbps. I remember how excited I was when 802.11b arrived on the scene. I gladly forked out $300 for a wireless access point (without a router) and $200 for each wireless PCMCIA card. Back then Linksys customer service reps actually answered the phones right away when you called.

I remember scoring as a kid on about 10 years of Cracked magazines at a neighbor's yard sale for a couple of bucks. I use to love reading those.

I'm not understanding fully...you mean I wouldn't be able to just go up and touch the wall or ceiling to make selections? Does that mean I wouldn't be able to make multi-finger gestures on the wall either? When I was in elementary school I use to make gestures on the classroom wall all the time with the projector.

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Hulu will now be limited to just 500MB of streamed content per IP address per month.

I use to use a couple of projectors around the home a few years back. The biggest reason I moved away from them and in a different direction was the cost of bulb replacement. What can we expect from the lamps on units like these? How many lumens are they? Does anyone know what the resolution of this guy is? Finally, I'm digging the folding design but wondering just how loud this runs because the ideal location for a bedroom application would be right above our heads on the headboard.

I've had Windows Mobile devices with IR ports dating back to the Windows CE 1.92 days. Long before bluetooth was a household word. Certainly long before the iPhone, iPod Touch, and even the iPod Classic was around. Those Windows Mobile devices that didn't have an IR port could just have an IR piece added that plugged right into the headphone jack. Heck, even Palm had a decent IR remote control solution. But now for a minimum of $180 an iPhone or iPod Touch can now control my devices in just one room? The only thing innovative here is how apple lovers are bent over a second time while smiling.

I would buy it for around $30. I'm still trying to understand how the IR signal actually gets sent to each device. Are there IR cables that plug into this thing and run to your devices similar to how a SlingBox controls your devices? I'm assuming you'll need one of these in each room where you'll want to control devices.

I had the ProMedia 5.1 setup that was bought for around $400 back in the day at CompUSA. They sounded great and they looked great. The problem came when the amp in the sub box overheated and died. So before fixing it I first went to do a search online to try and find a solution and was surprised to find just how many other users had a similar issue with the amp getting fried because it wasn't properly ventilated. The only solution would have been to send the unit back to Klipsch for an out-of-warranty repair that would cost well over half of what I originally paid for the set. The problem and reason I didn't do the fix was that while Klipsch admitted there was a problem they hadn't taken any steps to address the issue other than replacing the amps. I wasn't going to blow another $200+ on a sub that I had learned first hand was still sub par.

If you want to see a much slicker tool to run video from a computer to a TV then consider getting a SlingCatcher and running the SlingProjector software on any computer you have connected to the network. All of this can be checked out at SlingMedia.com. The SlingCatcher that started started out at $299 and now retails for $199 can be found for sale every now and then for as little as $99.

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I've got an old 5MP Sony F505. At the time it was a steal at around $800. I don't use it much anymore but when I do pull it down off the shelf I do enjoy the way the lens can rotate.