As opposed to a 28/30 for the comparable STX model. If you can tell the difference between the two I have some loud toddlers to sell you.

STX also has 5-year warranty.

@FrankTheCrank

And no, his work is not done at the behest of war profits. But thankfully his work can help out a lot of vets serving our country.

More on Dr. Herr:
http://biomech.media.mit.edu/people/herr.htm

Hugh Herr--the guy who patented this--is a fascinating guy. I've heard him speak several times and had the chance to meet him. He's a bilateral amputee and has constructed a range of prosthetic devices.

Definitely some of my favorite work from the MIT Media Lab folks. Really important stuff from a guy very passionate about making it.

These are kick ass, had one almost drive across my foot at a demo last fall. They will save a lot of lives. Fantastic piece of engineering.

I am 100% sure this means the terrorists have won.

So if Daphnia crawls onto a tangible interface table and I kill it, will the resulting explosion create a Pink Floyd concert?

Because if that is the case I would like to start dropping acid right now.

There's a lot of interactive tables out there, per the posts above. Many universities with creative engineering depts have come up with like concepts.

That said...they are extremely helpful to the PhD candidates who design them. Lets them easily chart out their respective choices in life. Lets them see where things went horribly, horribly, wrong.

And zoom in on those moments to re-live them.

Jesus. No. They are brothers living very different lives. The OLPC program is not an attempt by the NSA to control emerging market intellectual development.

If you want to know anything at all about the OLPC project (like why they removed the hand crank), go to www.laptop.org

If you want an independent (with valid concerns) view of the OLPC program, go to www.olpcnews.com.

But let the CIA plotlines go, for chrissakes. Read. There are a lot of good and bad possibilities from this program, but at its heart, it is a profoundly optimistic and positive vision for the world based on a ridiculously revolutionary technological device. But you will not learn that from sarcastic technology blogs.