I would accept this as a Christmas gift. Thank you.

I'm with the south-paw pride. Playing Rock Band at a friend's house, it's a pain to have to swap the strap all the time. Wish they'd make a dedicated lefty axe.

The biggest flaw for me with the Rebel line of Canon cameras is the lack of a mini-LCD screen on the top of the body. This is why with no Nikon/Canon preference last year I chose the Nikon D80 for my first DSLR. Canon's DSLRs under $1000 just don't have the ergonomics/body design like Nikon's do (D80, D90).

The G10 isn't owning anything. It's a fail camera. Try reading this for a comparison of all three by a photographer that actually has used all three cameras:

http://twipphoto.com/archives/2470

Agreed, this car appears epically badass.

By why make this (and the Tesla) a super car that has no practical use? Why not make a nice 4-door sedan with actual trunk space that is a practical and usable car for around town that would make the best use of not having to fill-up at the gas station? (although I am highly skeptical of electric cars since electricity is largely made from burning coal, so where is the eco-savings?).

Yes, Tokyo is the best city in the world if you are making your living as a photographer or in video somehow. Otherwise it's a huge, overcrowded mass. But for just walking out your door and immediately finding 100 things interesting to photograph, it can't be beat (maybe, I haven't lived everywhere yet).

Dude, there are cigarette butts everywhere in Tokyo.

But, other than that, it is fairly clean.

And I can personally testify I saw a dude dead asleep with his Macbook perilously balancing on his lap in the middle of the day. No one made any attempts to steal it. I kept my eye on it just in case it fell all the way off maybe I could catch it and save its life!

My thoughts about sleeping on the train after 5 years of riding Tokyo trains and having never slept on them....umm, do not sleep on the trains! I don't care how safe it is here, who wants to be asleep and totally vulnerable in public?

And if you are that tired, why not just go home and sleep? Why stay out so late? Hell, maybe more people are sleeping on the train in the middle of the afternoon than at night. I can't fathom it myself.

I'm with you in not usually going for black with gold trim, but it does look pretty sweet on the 1010...a bit of late 80's retro bad-ass look to it.

Have the Xacti HD700 and love it....don't know if the 1010 is quite enough to get me to upgrade yet though.

All Japanese phones also have the ability to type English (roman) characters, as long as you enjoy hitting #7 three times to type "s"

So the person saying no QWERTY above, I wish there were at least a couple mainstream QWERTY phone options for us ex-pats.

And a real sized screen instead of those small ones would be nice.

All the features listed in the article pretty much require the ability to read and write Japanese.

I've used one at the Engadget Reader Meetup in Tokyo last fall. It's a pretty heavy gadget, I was surprised when I picked it up. So at the least, it's not something you'll be able to easily bring over to your friend's house.

It was hard to judge the audio quality as the room was pretty loud.

From my 5 minutes with it I'd say a price of $40 would be reasonable for it, now $400.