In reverance and respect of Mr. Gary Larson... I'd create the world's first postapocalyptic Dobie-O-Matic. Tell me you wouldn't run shrieking for the hills if you were staring down the barrel of a live, barking Doberman.

I really can't understand how making the entire process of voting easier to perform chaffs so many a$$es around here. Especially on a site devoted to showcasing new emerging technologies.

Yes, the method in this article is unfeasible, but to say that putting new technology behind the voting process is a bad idea just seems shortsighted. If you could take a hassle-filled process you have at work and make it easier to accomplish, would that also be wrong?

The sentiment that voting needs to be complicated to weed out the people that can't understand it marginalizes a hell of a lot of peoples' votes. And I'm not entirely comfortable with that level of elitism, thanks.

"...but just imagine what your 1980s self would have thought of it."

Man, $70 would buy a lot of parachute pants.

Wait, I'm confused -- this article is written in such a way as to indicate in-plane switching is a somewhat new technology, but Panasonic's been touting their IPS technology since 2005. Me confused.

Seems to me to not be a markedly big improvement on the big, clunky Bluetooth headset idea though.

Once they make them smaller and less obtrusive, I think BT headsets will probably be more widespread. As it stands, I don't think I've ever looked at an emerging technology and said to myself, "Wow... I can see how that's going to look really stupid in about 10 years."

If only you actually COULD stockpile Polaroid film, Sabrina. Alas, the film goes bad after something like 18 months.

Way to take a completely unnecessary cheap shot at Tenacious D.

I've got a novel idea -- why don't you leave the unsolicited 'tude to the celebrity gossip bloggers, and... I don't know... run this place like a legitimate news service?

Jerks.

Wow, no bids yet? I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED.

Perhaps he's openly courting the role of Shipwreck in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie.

If internet glurge is to be believed, this figure was supposed to have premiered more than 2 years ago.

The delay had to do with the fact that the sculptors at McFarlane sent the original pre-production sample to Kiefer for approval -- the actual piece that they'd have made the molds from. Kiefer was so jazzed about the sample that he took it out for a night of drinking, and he and his friends accidentally... uh, set it on fire.

The following day, he approved the sample, at which time the sculptors asked him to FedEx the sample back for mass production of the molds.

Uh... oops.