maybe chuck e. cheese will be interested.

awesome tech demo for his portfolio. but...

-- on wheels, so no stairs or high thresholds
-- sloooooow
-- too big & heavy for consumer market
-- mechanics probably need frequent tweaking
-- looks like lawsuit waiting to happen. could fall on a child or pet, drop a glass, knock over a candle, pinch or snag, etc.
-- having outside interest or securing venture capital doesn't mean a product is (or ever will be) viable.

humanoid robots won't be popular in the home until they can do truly useful things BETTER and FASTER than humans. stuff like:

loading a dishwasher
manually washing & drying dishes
vacuuming & mopping a REAL home full of levels and obstacles
traversing stairs
feeding and changing a baby
making telephone calls
learning to put stuff away
running sex toy hacks
cooking and serving
having intelligent conversations
walking a dog
playing with a cat
self-educating itself about your favorite topics

it would be cool to have this on one side of your computer and a similarly sized 3d scanning sarcophogus (or whatever they are called) on the other. you could scan a real world object to create a basic wireframe to start with, tweak it into what you need, and then print out the new version.

engadget rocks.
kodak camera FTW!
:)

i don't have a watch at the moment, so when i need to know the time and there's no clock display nearby, i turn on my nintendo DS and check the time on it's launch screen. i've learned to live without a watch, but i've always loved them as style objects and i've been a longtime follower of e-ink technology!

now *that's* some heavy bass.

it's a portable champagne room.

yeah, you're right. it does look like they should be lowering fuel rods down through the roof into the living room/reactor core.

let's see. a regular old mirror which offers a superior image quality costs $10. This thing probably costs $1200.00. it's hard to think of a more frivolous, pointless use of outdated technology which offers such inferior performance for such an inflated price. this must be a joke. it would look perfect next to one of those oh-so-trendy 1990's wavy cd racks. and a huge overstuffed couch by bobby trendy with a thigh master laying on it.

i've been eagerly awaiting the switch to flash (or other) memory instead of moving drives, but 1GB just doesn't cut it, imho. memory prices have really come down, so this seems like it could be one of the machine's fatal flaws. i hope the internal flash is at least very expandable. any flash-based consumer laptop (except for the $100 ones, at least for now) should at least have the capability of doing what a video ipod does. if you're going to carry around something this large, it should have the same multimedia capabilities as other laptops. i don't expect that it should be able to have TONS of storage room, but you should have room for some movies, tv shows, music files, etc. by not allowing you enough space to save things, it makes you a slave to a good wi-fi signal. yeah - maybe it has ethernet. but it's supposed to be portable.

it would be great to see a link that would automatically optimize engadget for the nintendo wii's opera browser - with graphics and article, text, etc. all sized to look best and take up the entire view area of the wii browser. it could also convert any audio and video content to flash format and play through a web flash player also optimized to fill the entire wii opera display.