Re the second video, one word: haircut.

In all the years since the Segway came out, I have seen one of these, ONE, and that was in Vienna at a conference venue a couple of years ago. I live in London, one of the most populous and metropolitan cities in the world, and I've never seen a single Segway anywhere in the UK! I know there's all sorts of legality issues about using them on public highways over here, but we have lots of pedestrianised areas in London, and lots of large shopping centres (aka "malls"...), so there are places you could use a Segway. I'm sure that 90% of the problem has alwasy been the ludicrous price tag; it showed a masive ignorance of the amount of disposable income available to the average person outside (and inside) the US, on the part of Dean Kamen. Many people I know would think seriously hard before spending £4500 ($6600!!) on a second-hand car, never mind on a scooter! My foldable bike cost me £400, it's virtually bomb-proof and maintenance-free, and I can take it on the train/tube: end of argument.

Gosh, isn't the Onion funny, in a "not as good as The Day Today, which was first broadcast 15 years ago" type way. Such dull and lazy "satire", made all the more annoying by the fact that their design and production is superb, but their ideas and scripts are so massively predictable. Think what they could do if all their writers weren't white American males, aged 20-30...

harmonically and chord-change-wise, very similar to Copeland's "Equalizer" theme from, what , 25 years ago? Blackberry should ask for their money back (never thought I'd write THOSE words without falling about laughing).

If you look at the Direct Medical website, it looks like these are "for veterinary use only". Not quite the hospital-budget-easing breakthrough I was hoping for...

Not excatly revolutionary, but, like a previous poster mentioned, Steve Jobs certainly knows his target markets. I live in London, Europe's iPod-central (on any given morning, about 40-50% of the people on my commuter train can be seen wearing the little white headphones), and this will be snapped up by those living in incredibly expensive and small city-centre apartments, for whom money isn't an issue, and space/minimalist styling is a premium.

everyone, but everyone, is going to text "I am the Doctor" to their own homephone, so that they can run home and hear Tom Baker saying it! WICKED!!!

err, can none of you read? the computer pictured is not the computer featured in the Microsoft/Brazil offer. The computer pictured, as the text below it indicates, is the MSN TV 2 from 2004.