127 grams is amazingly lightweight for a 5MP, WVGA touchscreen Qwerty slider with a 1,500mAh battery!. If it's built well then I for one would be all for it!

Just to clarify, the reason there are only 3 community games is because XNA 3.0 final isn't available to the public yet (XNA 3.0 Beta is the current version, which does not allow community games submissions).

So...

better quality for the same file size (pretty much equal to jpeg2000), a lossless option, *much* faster encoding (than jpeg2000 and png afaik), very fast decoding, support for multiple channels and colour spaces in the same image, transparency, differing compression per channel, high dynamic range (up to 32bit including floating point), no requirement for divide/multiply by the encoding/decoding hardware, constant work per-pixel decoding (I think), ability to decode rectangular sub-regions of the image without decoding the rest of the image, mipmaps.....

If I were a camera manufacturer I think I would like to support this format.

Now we just need HDR monitors.
:-)

This is sometimes known as a multi-resolution display. There are a number of products and research projects out there already.

I personally have seen this done twice, it's a smart thing to do with maps and other large image sets. An example I've tried was an LCD monitor in the middle of a projection screen (rear projection), this was in ~2005 I believe.

A very quick google brings up the following project as another example:
http://140.112.28.144/Excellence/Proposal%20Results/Sub_Project_3/OutComes2/2005/system/document_view
You can see a multires table display about halfway down.

I liked the bit with the charging rhino thingy :P

My sundials, let me show you them.

It's a relief all right. You no longer have to worry about it.

However, to be honest I don't buy the 30% failure rate. At least over here, maybe the US is different (high current power? :), but the stores I've talked to suggest the failure rate *is* actually more like 5%. It's certainly anecdotally no where near 1 in 3.
A few months ago, one store even told me they'd only had one returned system - and that was due to a faulty power cord. This wasn't a small store either, it was the local equivalent of walmart.
Only one of my friends has had to return his unit, and that was due to a damaged video port (4 red lights!).

At work we recently starting using a Nikon d40x, but unfortunatly it died the next day. Had only taken around 150k photos too. :-(

The Wifi addon for the 360 is a/b/g. The PS3 is b/g. b/g is significantly cheaper to produce. Hence it's an addon for the 360 - not standard. 802.11a is more reliable for things that require consistent bandwidth, such as streaming content at higher resolutions. It is less susceptible to interference.
At the time of the 360 launch, the cheapest addin PCI 802.11a wifi card that I could find was the same price as the wifi addon for the 360 (over here at least, I actually looked it up - thinking it was overpriced). Of course now they are probably cheaper.
I don't feel it's overpriced. It's reasonably priced for it's capability.

2004:
http://www.engadget.com/2004/03/04/the-devil-duckie/
Devil duck! I have one... but it doesn't have the USB protrustion.. :-(

2005:
http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/23/new-nintendo-revolution-specs/
Bwahahahaha! Ohh hindsight

2006:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/03/million-dollar-bed-floats-on-magnets/
Simply... Awesome..


You guys are great