My favorite thing about the machine is that it has a printer (actually a typesetter, but WTF). Unfortunately, the drivers are not yet available.

Bay is an investor in Ciconia & Co., LLC, a private VC firm. Cicconia recently bought Digital Domain, and installed one of its principals and founders, Carl Stork, formerly of Microsoft (I believe he was incharge of the Windows '95 release, giving him much to answer for, karmically speaking), as CEO.

So Bay actually does have a bit of an inside line to MS.

On the other hand, he has not to date shown much intellectual rigor.

"A Clockwork Orange" meets "Marathon Man" -- how fun!

"Ingenious?"

If you're describing it correctly, that power train (internal-combustion engine - generator - batteries - electric motor) dates back at least to WW2, and Ferdinand Porsche's tanks. I think it may even have been used on an electric car before then, but I might be misremembering. And anyway, that's just land vehicles. Submarines have been powered that way for just about ever -- that's why they called the company in Groton "The Electric Boat Company."

Does it have a camera on the back? If not, it's gonna sport a big "kick me" sign in about 10 minutes...

Same idea as the Toast-O-Lator:

http://www.toaster.org/1940.html

next-gen?

PSP-HD of course, or Apple's iConsole...

discreet flame