If your wristwatch is seeing hard vacuum, its survival is indeed unlikely to be your number one priority at that moment.

And I don't know of any reason why a $5 quartz watch from the supermarket wouldn't be A-OK in microgravity and vacuum, anyway. If you freeze it cold enough then the battery will stop working, but lithium coin cells actually have about ten degrees C more operating temperature range than the Seiko watch - a bit less at the hot end, but considerably more at the cold end. And even a $5 quartz watch will keep much better time than any mechanical watch.

If men were allowed to wear ordinary jewellery, there'd be less of this nonsense around.

> both units are aimed squarely at the affluent sect

Scientology?

Photon Light Boards, eh?

That's a... courageous... choice of product name.

(Photon Micro-Lights, http://www.photonlight.com/ , have been the premiere brand of keyring LED lights pretty much since the invention of the keyring LED light. Looks like an open and shut trademark case to me.)

There was no "FDA trial".

The AP piece clearly states that the manufacturers (say they) did a trial, which means nothing unless someone else replicates the results (don't hold your breath for that to happen...). And, separately, the FDA have approved the device, which just means they've verified that it seems unlikely to blind people, catch fire, cause botulism, et cetera.

Regulatory authority approval for oddball medical devices usually only means they've been tested for basic safety. Sometimes all it means is that the manufacturers have paid to be put on a list.

...and there's a review of it on my site :-):
http://www.dansdata.com/csspot.htm

A very similar product is sold under the Cyber Snipa brand, too.

I hope they can work George Takei in there somewhere.

I was all set to believe this, until I actually got around to looking at the site.

The video you've embedded above looks suspiciously-nicely-done enough, but the Rocky homage video is way too nice to be plausible. It's got multiple fixed camera positions, which one regular dude could indeed do, but only if he had a buddy to mind the camera while he ran past it. Otherwise, though, I'll only believe video like that if the person running is Les Stroud.

Why would you do that, if you were genuine? Why? Unless, of course, you wanted to make a funny promotional Wii video, because someone was paying you to do it.

In this debased modern age, the above makes me 90% sure that this is Fake Viral Bullshit Example #12734.

"Honest and accurate", huh?

I want to believe. I really do. But, as yet, I am unable to.

I agree that this does not look like a very exciting product, but NiMH is not that bad ( http://www.dansdata.com/gz011.htm ) - in brief, it does not have "memory effect", and neither did NiCd; voltage depression is not the same thing. And the only alternative is not that good ( http://www.dansdata.com/gz042.htm ).

That keyboard design's got some serious longevity. Whoever actually makes them has just been putting new connectors (or wireless adapters) on the same basic mechanism for more than six years now.

When I reviewed one, the top-of-the-range Palm was the Vx:
http://www.dansdata.com/portkey.htm

This isn't a bad thing, though; the folding keyboard is still a nifty device.