Definitely looking forward to this.

As big of a breakthrough the original Palm was, and to a lesser extent the Treo, Hawkins and Dubinsky have been left behind in the PDA/Smartphone realm. Their company was driven practically to the brink of death until Elevation Partners comes along and the Pre is developed. Hawkins seemed to think that the Foleo was a good idea when he presented it a couple of years ago. At this point, its probably the best thing for them to move on.

Someone is going to bash India because someone of Indian background filling a board seat at Palm. Take the chip off your shoulder.

When what have been the most reliable and best selling cars can't sell, we're really in trouble.

"Kahn Noonien Singh" and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn"

Sorry to be pedantic, but this is a mistake that people often make. They juxtapose Kahn and Khan when they are different and unrelated names. Kahn is the Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen. Khan is a Central Asian surname from the title Khan, a title for a sovereign or military rulers. And seeing as the character is supposed to be a Sikh, I'm pretty sure he was Khan. Though it might have been interesting to have a Jewish space tyrant villain in Star Trek...

Dual used to be a German turntable manufacturer, they started in 1927 actually. Until the 90s they made turntables, DVD players, VCRs, etc... Then in 2001 the parent company went bankrupt and the brand wound up under a Korean electronics company making most the junk you see today.

Well, to most people who aren't used to anything faster than a 7200RPM HD, ~1MB/s would be more than fine. It's the .1MB/s transfer rate and incredibly high latency of most MLC drives that are the problem. Intel's MLC architecture is a breakthrough when it comes to random writes. But if SanDisk could give at least ~1MB/s and decent latency on random writes at less than half the price of Intel, it will be more than good enough for most people.

The keyboard cover is a zCover TypeOn zPrinted Language Keyboard Skin in Clone Black. They don't list them anymore on the zCover site, so you'll have to look around if you want one.

"You write as if hydrogen and electricity are opposing technologies.... but something (read: a large company) has to generate that electricity from the wall socket somehow..."

Yes, and you need electricity to turn water into hydrogen, and you need and large infrastructure (here is where oil companies come in) to distribute physical hydrogen. Hydrogen merely acts as a physical form of energy, that energy originating from whatever power plant supplied the electricity to perform electrolysis on some water. So in a way the two are opposing each other as the form of energy people will use to power their car. Each with its own benefits and drawbacks. The way I look at it, why have the middle man of a distributor of hydrogen when I can just get the energy straight from the source (power plant) and send it straight to my car. It would take alot less energy to get electricity from a power plant to my car than to get hydrogen from a hydrogen plant to my car.

I found the whole episode to be a hack job on the whole idea of battery powered electric cars. The message I got from the episode was battery powered electrics are heavy, unreliable and have limited range. Whereas the final segment showed a hydrogen powered car as the 'obvious' future of cars. Not to sound conspiratorial, but it felt like something BP or some other energy company would produce. As gasoline vehicles begin to be phased out, oil companies that make money from selling gasoline want to become the 'energy' company to selling hydrogen. The old oil companies can't make any money with battery powered electrics since they pull energy from the electrical grid. Old oil companies can make money off hydrogen cars because the infrastructure needed to fill up a hydrogen car similar to that needed for gasoline cars. Substitute refineries with hydrogen electrolysis plants, gas tankers with compressed hydrogen tankers and filling stations just place hydrogen pumps next to the gasoline pumps. The cost of entry (and time) to build an infrastructure to support hydrogen vehicles will make it cost prohibitive for newcomers to steal the old oil companies thunder in the transition.
Anyway, I felt hydrogen got a much fairer shake than battery in their comparison. Both technologies have their caveats, and will have those worked out in the future. But it should be kept in mind that some groups stand to profit more from one technology than from others.