Could this be the troy duffy of the tech world?

all he needs now is a pixelqi screen.

"probably not worth the pricetag"

It's a Bose. That's a given.

You notice this is always with a cable provider.

Never seen this with DSL.

Funny that the Cable 'DSL sucks' ads never seem to mention how they like to limit the bandwidth they claim to provide.

That's why such an app is needed. There has to be some kind of sensor to detect when a person falls asleep. This is the perfect ap for that.

Would also be helpful for people driving while listening to NPR. An alarm could sound or switch NPR over to some Slayer when sleep is detected.

Is it capable of resuming at the point that you fell asleep listening to NPR?

Next step:
Amazon buys spring design, provides backing for major suit against B&N.

Amazon / spring wins, nook disappears.

$549 for windows 7 non-starter edition and a bunch of crap I don't need and without the stuff I do need.

Hopefully nohrtec can get their $300 tablet out the door soon.

"Maybe this technology isn't efficient enough to be as green as it sounds, but with scaled-up production and a high enough adoption rate, it could become a green energy source."

No, it won't. It would be much, much easier and more efficient to throw in some high efficiency LED bulbs into existing infrastructure and result in greater savings over the long haul.

Remember, not only does this thing need to be built, shipped, transported and installed, it also needs to be maintained. Plus someone has to rip out an existing concrete block and dispose of that. Not exactly a 'green' activity.

On the other hand, all someone has to do with an LED bulb (or other future hi efficiency bulb technologies) is to wait for an existing bulb non 'green' bulb to burn out and replace it with a better bulb. Energy is saved and manpower (and the related energy) is saved because of the longevity of LED lighting.

The only way something like this even comes to close to making sense is if there is and never will be an electrical infrastructure in place. However, that would only happen in out of the way places that doesn't have electricity. Which means it won't have sufficient foot traffic to power anything. So it still wouldn't make sense.

In short, this is a rather ridiculous idea that doesn't solve any problem at all except gaining publicity for the mere promise that they are "doing something for the environment". It's designed to appeal to those who feel instead of think.

Because there's no free lunch. Most times these turn out to be feel-good efforts more for publicity than for any real benefit. If you do a long term cost-benefit analysis that include the design, manufacturing, transportation, installation, and maintenance, almost all the time it's much more environmentally friendly just to rely on plain old grid power. However, there are no photo ops for politicians and green advocates with the more effective status quo.