Please?

Pretty Please?

This is ridiculous. I don't know patent law, but it seems completely contrary to the whole spirit of innovation for a person or company to be able to patent whole ideas and claim intellectual property over anything that even remotely resembles those ideas. Like, say, a "handheld three-dimensional pointing device" with a "navigation interface display system that graphically organizes content for display on a television." Christ, with that, they could sue me for using a laser pointer and a TiVo at the same time.

Unless their wireless controller used Bluetooth, infrared orientation, and accelerometers coupled with force-feedback to aid navigation, I don't see how this company has a leg to stand on, even if their product actually did make it to market. And, presumably, fail, since there don't appear to be bunches of people lining outside Best Buy in droves to buy this Loop thingamajig.

Not that this is the most pressing issue of our time, but holy crap, I just might lose my faith in humanity if this company even gets a whiff of Nintendo's profits.

But what does this have to do with the iPhone?

*runs*

Not only not first, but not even relevant.

That is gorgeous. Maybe they'll swap out the radio for CDMA, so Verizon users can get it in about four more years or so.

Um... that's hot.

*starts saving pennies*

It begs the question: how exactly does one get one's hands on a flamethrower? I ask merely out of curiosity. And out of a desire for a flamethrower.

That, my friend, is why you uglify the living crap out of your equipment. Make your stethoscope so unmistakably, irretrievably ugly with whiteout and scratches and those ugly slip-covers the nurses like to use and nobody will dare take it.

"That stethoscope is hideous. Where'd you find it?"
"Dunno. Think it belongs to that medical student, though."
"Yeah, I know."

Why they would want to track me as a member of the housestaff, I have no idea... though I would totally mess with the system if they did, like grab the RFID tag of the hottest girl in the hospital and hide it in a broom closet with mine so somebody out there would think I was getting more action than I actually am...