@triptych

2050 is also the year the all-man-made robot soccer team is supposed to beat the best humans. At this point I don't even think the robots are gaining on humans in ability. Look at how far human athletics have come in the past 40 years. Of course we have to leave out anomalies like Nadia Comaneci and the 1982 Brazil World Cup team, but I am pretty sure they were alien robots anyway.

@bjs
You are nicer than I am.
@RedWingsFan
You really should consider the number of derogatory combinations there are of "hockey fan" and unkind words for "unimaginative and statistically likely to have incurred repeated head trauma" before attempting to detract from your betters.

@"what's next for your futuristic replicant menagerie?"

Menagerie, meet menage-a-trois.

The recession is even impacting the quality of our robotic toys! Disappointing given what Wowee has brought in the past.

Weened on? Dinning room? Deep-base?

Editor?

With the same lack of attention to user experience as ever. There is more screen space spent on toolbars and titles than the actual web content you're trying to view.

The offspring of a drunken hookup between an industrial designer and a thermal engineer. The ergonomics expert just likes to watch.

Your sarcasm module obviously sits closer to your brain's comment center than your ability for critical thought does.

They are for air-cooling the four wheel motors that each put out more than your mother.

Unlike our incredibly useful 160-foot stadium video displays that cost a few hundred times as much as this one-off prototype. With our incredible useful American invention you can pay for tickets to a live game in order to watch the television feed in HD, just like you do at home.

I'm not saying this to troll, but I'm willing to bet that if Steve Jobs hadn't survived his health problems we wouldn't be reading this article.

That is to say, Apple in its current form will not be around forever. Apple realizes this, which is why it tried like hell to get out from under DRM. When the company goes under or transforms, the brilliant new business model that DRM will spawn will be that of carrier-companies (likely owned by the rights-holders) that will operate servers that make iTunes appear to function as it did before Apple's fall. For a modest fee, of course. Such innovation.

I think it says it all that your shining example of functional DRM is the one that was used by a company before they went to great expense and PR lengths to leave it behind.