Designer,

I'm right there with you. I've actually wanted to build this too, or at least assemble the parts to make a small multi-component system. And to all those fashionistas who think it ain't pretty, I challenge any of them to build anything better without a factory to back them up. As someone who's hacked together a solution or two, I think it looks great! Seriously, for the space it fills, it appears well engineered. Have you published a parts list? Despite all the negative comments from people whom I won't make any negative comments about, I think this thing's totally cool. I wish I had the time and your ingenuity. Though other folks haven't said so, let me be the first to say thanks for letting us know about your cool creation. I want one.

Engadget's been taken over by fashionistas. Where'd all the geeks go? Must be something big over at slashdot.

Once again, discussion of whether something is attractive or not (see Canon 35D post earlier) totally misses the point. WhoTF cares? Having a full-fledged computer with you is the trick. And this is smaller (albeit thicker) than a notebook. I remember people saying the Treo/RIM thumboard was lame too, yet most who actually USE one fall in love. Lighten up. Some of you probably would have run Jobs and Woz out of the Homebrew club with their cobbled-together Apple I. Or Ed Roberts with his LED-flashing MITS Altair 8800. While not quite on par with those milestones, it's still cool that he built the computer he wanted.

It's not about how the camera looks, it's how it sees.

I use the mouse often while I'm on the phone. How the skype are you going to do that with something like this? BTW, it doens't really look like a mouse since it has no buttons (then again, neither does the latest Apple mouse), but my question still applies to the Sony mouse/phone. About as useful as talking into your gas pedal.