Try the worst camping trip of my life turned into the epic gaming marathon known as Zelda: Links Awakening after a bait buying trip to Walmart in a small town in Utah. God I miss rockin' it monochrome... :(

The molecular barrier is not the end of Moore's Law. You are making the assumption that shrinking the electronic components of microprocessors is the only way to increase performance.

What about innovations like: multiple cores, on-chip memory controllers, branch prediction, pipeline efficiency, order-of-operation procedures, neural network engines, distributed computation, quantum computing, etc..?

Don't underestimate human ingenuity

Moore (co-founder of intel) was just describing his observations about the microprocessor industry at the time (1965). He never intended his prediction to be taken as law.

It acts as a product life-cycle goal and not the defacto rule of performance. If a company like intel or IBM expects to remain viable then that company would have to find a way to double the performance of it's products every 18 months. Otherwise a competitors product would likely over take them until. For that reason it's more of an self-fulfilling prophecy then a law.

Please, you know I love you!

I would kill to get this working on my Korg DS-10! Maybe, Korg will get the hint that the on-screen keyboard is way too small and finicky to use with a stylus and releases a tweaked version of the software bundled with a single-octave keyboard. While they're at it, they should take note of what the homebrew community managed to do: tie the GBA-slot's I/O interface to a serial-to-midi converter. I bet they could throw the midi I/O guts into the keyboard itself and price the whole bundle at less then $80.

Think of the all the added functionality Korg's product would gain with just a fraction of the development time it took to make the original:
1) the DS can be used as a portable touch-screen midi-controller and sequencer.
2) export/import saved instruments, songs and settings.
3) connect and daisy-chain external midi controllers, such as a full sized keyboard, sliders, rotary knobs, etc.
4) by-pass the DS's god-awful, analog audio-out.

It's unlikely Korg would ever let X-Seed introduce a redux version that caters to the needs of enthusiasts (the primary customers of the first release) most likely fearing, incorrectly, that the products they sell for thousands of dollars more would suddenly cease to be appealing.

Anyway, If hell freezes over and Korg (or any other company, for that matter) finally releases a DS-10v2-like product, someone let me know. I'll be the first one in-line to pre-order that bad boy =^_^=

NAMCO ARE YOU SERIOUS? I mean, really what the f**k am I going to do with ONE octave? You can't even play "chop-sticks" (correct me if the name is wrong.) I have no problem with the peripheral. Rather, I have a problem with the peripheral's intended purpose of being a teaching tool.

When learning to play a keyboard-based instrument, the general conciseness is a minimum of THREE full octaves:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_minimum_number_of_octaves_a_keyboard_should_have_for_a_child_to_learn_on

@ charleslkocur: What is a "prehiperal" exactly? Sounds like an industry term for a product that flopped before making it's way to market, "Kazoo-Hero" perhaps?

... (yes, I proclaim the title, "Kazoo-Hero", and concept to be my intellectual property. Harmonix, you reading this? I want my damn royalties already!)

Touch... porn will never be the same again. Now, someone needs to develop haptic "feel-boob" systems... WHAT? Like you never dreamed of virtu-boob technology!

need this

Want... slash that, NEED!

or should I say w-a-n-t-c-h?

Damn it, I'm never going to get to my job interviews on time, am I?

I need something to blow up this weekend... nuff said