I've got a 15" MacBook Pro, and a freeware called Temperature Monitor so I can keep an eye on how hot things get, and I've seen it get up to 186 F at one time, but that was on a hot day, and I'd been operating it in my Brenthaven laptop case for a while, which pretty much blocks the vent. After I took it out, it cooled to 140-150 F.

With the back end propped up like most notebook manufacturers suggest, and an itty bitty desk fan blowing underneath, I can get it down between 90-110 F usually. But even with regular use on my lap, I've never seen it get much above 150 F.

Uhhh... The VAD.HO is a two-seater. Looks like it might be driveable from both seats too, although I'm not sure. It looks like there's one joystick for the backseat, but there're two for the front.

I remember something like this from when I was a kid. It was a little cartoon flower that reacted to sounds around it. You yelled at it and it jumped. You sang and it danced. It always did the same sequence of motions, which isn't as fancy as this thing is, but the concept's been around at least 20 years.

To get consumer reactions to features included in that concept. If enough people respond well to a certain thing, you can bet you'll see it in a future vehicle.

Eh. Looks and features, as well as safety, will always be selling points for private transportation. Lots of different markets.

Plus, there's a limit to how safe you can make a 1000lb+ inertia ram traveling anywhere from 0-70(legally), hitting another one doing the same thing.

When I was in elementary school, our police department did a fingerprinting program just like this, and for the same reason. All of the fingerprint records were given to CHILD. Permission slips had to be signed and everything. So yeah. I definetly support something like this.

Wii and PS3 once I get my hands on one.

Actually, this is more useful than you think at first. It should actually have one more, easily added feature. Oil-change reminders. That's what the odometer reading's for I'd think. How often do you actually look at your odometer in your car? Not a whole lot of people I know do. Regular maintenance is vital to keep a vehicle running well.

As for tire pressure readouts, 60% or more of blow-outs on the road are caused by people not doing a walk-around of their car before they leave and realizing they have a low tire. Low tire pressure=easy blowout.

And it wouldn't be that hard to put the auto-open gate/door keys back on the thing.


As for the whole American vs foreign car debate, American cars are still damn good cars. Foreign cars are of a really good quality these days. It's actually a pretty even market. It all depends on what you want to do. Diesel's gone to Ford, handling's gone to Honda, etc etc. So, the "best car for you" depends on what you'll be doing with it. Me? I drive an '88 Plymoth Grand Voyager. 210k miles on it. Bought it for $100USD, put another $300USD into it to get it running and it's just been regular maintenance since then.

American cars are shite? Ha.

You're right. The screen in the reflection's a different picture than the one on the actual screen.

A couple of the animatronic dresses were neat, specifically the Victorian one that transformed to a flapper dress(didn't like it as much as a flapper dress), and the long, white one that transformed to a skirt and zipped itself up.

But... I don't really like much of his "normal" clothes, and don't see all that big a deal with a few animatronic pull-string dresses. Just more fabric draped over a body, except that's hugely expensive.

And some of those models were waaaay too thin.