My Prius gets 50 mpg on both the city and the highway. I used to fill up my car every week and now it's more like every month.

I assume you know hybrids get their electricity from the gasoline they're burning, not from the grid. You likely mean plug-in hybrids??

I think the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight are very cool looking. Very Sci Fi. They are also the only two hybrids that get great mileage.

I guess gas prices are not high enough for anyone here to consider a cheap car that's unusual looking. It's funny people talk about the $20K Prius is too expensive but then drive $40K SUVs around. Somehow I bet as gas gets to be $5/gallon and higher, the Prius will look less and less ugly to you all.

You're are correct. Michael Dell should just frickin' sell whatever is left of his company and give investors their money back. Dell is going out of business.

It's so cool how on the internet just making fun of new ideas can kill them. The only problem engadget posters have now is rolling off their computer chair at the end of the "work" day and waddling out to their SUV. It's hilarious for any of you to call a Segway rider, ie a person in an all electric scooter instead of a SUV, "Lazy."

I think gasoline will have to hit $5/gallon before americans realize a small electric car/scooter can actually substitute for their SUV in most cases. In moments I predict all the "comicbook guys," ala Simpsons, who drive their SUV 2 miles to work each day and then sit at a computer posting on Engadget, will add their comments about people who ride Segways are "lazy" and "geeky."

Most folks drive their SUV less than 5 miles to get to work. The segway is just another electric car which you want to kill.

Let's see where is that quote: "American drivers take approximately 900 million car trips per day. The EPA estimates that half of all those trips are less than five miles (8 km) long and transport only one passenger. If just 10% of those trips in cars were replaced with an electric vehicle, that would save 6.2 million gallons (23.56 million liters) consumed per day and that would translate into a huge reduction in vehicle emissions."

Once, again, go ahead, turn off your computer after a day of surfing, waddle off your herman miller chair and walk the 58 steps to climb up into your SUV and laugh at the lazy people on tiny electric vehicles as you drive the long 0.9 miles home.

Nice.

Turns out that about ummm like 500 million car trips a day are also carrying one human (and last less than 5 miles). Let's all head back to our SUVs now.

It's interesting that everyone would like a Segway without wheels (ie hovercraft like from Back to The Future) and might pay quite a bit, but add wheels and it's unpopular?

And by the way, nobody except Mac enthusiasts jumped on the first iPod, the PC world initially snorted at it.

You actually spend more than the cost of a Segway just on your cell phone. If you pay $100/month for your phone, that's $1200 each year and after four years, you've bought a Segway. Now count how many years you'll actually be paying to own that a cell phone (25-30-40?).

The article by Robert Kennedy in the latest Rolling Stone does make a good case that the Diebold machines are screwed and so is the country.

Mathematicians agree that it's rather easy to tell when an election has been "rigged." If the exit polls are dramatically different than the vote counts reported by the election officials something is very wrong.

But hey, that's just "crazy talk" because Statistics is just a "theory."