This one here is either an air freshener, or a designer dynamite exploder thingy.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/microsoft-announces-next-gen-pc-design-competition-winners/244099/

This is playing with fire for the movie industry, they just may wake up their consumers to the fact that owning movies is usually pretty silly. For example, now that I have my copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there are no more movies that I'm actually tempted to own. I'll let NetFlix worry about the probability that the electronics in their disks might fail.

My neighbor has one of these:

http://www.bushnell.com/general/trailcameras.cfm?section=#cSection#

They have the same pictures on the Stealth camera as on the Bushnell camera.

I haven't seen it for a while, but I would say it's 8-10" tall, at least 6" wide and 2-3" thick.

They are quite large. My neighbor wanted to catch the people who were stealing stuff from his cabin and bought a similar camera -- 2 megapixels. He ended up putting it in a big iron pipe he had welded up so that the camera couldn't be stolen. It would be nice if it was small.

The image quality in infrared mode that we got is nothing like what they show on their web site.

maybe they could get sony to do some contract assembly at the PS3 plant?

The iPod story isn't true. It's a classic republican smear propagated by a conservative newspaper. The budget item is for technology, not iPods, which in most school systems still goes to buy Macs. It's a reasonable choice given the installed base. There is no way Michigan is going to buy an iPod for each student at a cost of $23 each. I think engadget is having too much fun with this story to put out the truth.

Of course, any story like this should be treated as a lie until verified. The money was for technology, not ipods. $23 a kid will not buy an iPod for each one of them. Here's how it works: Republican makes up lie, press prints it verbatim. Never checks with anyone else, like maybe the sponsor of the bill. Then when anyone complains, press prints a "he said, she said" story that doesn't support either side. It's a great racket if you have no ethics. Somehow I don't expect a retraction from engadget either.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6345567

My experience with GPS was that I don't learn anything about an area while following the GPS. If I drive through a city once without GPS, I can pretty much navagate there years later. But with the GPS, I can drive and have no concept of where I've been. It's like having amnesia. I never felt like I was in more danger though, not like with pouring coffee out of a thermous, which has nearly killed me a few times.

The Prius makes you click through a Eula in order to use the gps. I've never read it all the way through, but it says something to the effect that it's dangerous to use the touch screen while driving. Which explains why I have to go through a batch of menus to defrost the windshield, because Toyota wants to kill me. You can't enter data into the system while driving without a cheat code or extra hardware.