Looks like another Syabas based product. Even the NMT name matches up to the name Syabas uses for that sort of product. Check out the specs on Syabas' site for more details and specs on this device before Popcorn Hour releases them.

I have a few players from Syabas and they're actually fairly decent devices. For $179 they'll probably do OK since there aren't many competitive products in the space at that price point.

Compare it to a scooter rather than a car and you have a compelling offer. Compare it to a car and it flops miserably.

For $5,000 to knock around the city and run errands it's cheaper than pretty much any motorcycle and about the same price as a scooter. Plus you can use it in the rain or snow, which you can't comfortably on a scooter. At $5,000 this would absolutely sell in NYC, Boston, DC, maybe Miami, and pretty much anywhere densely populated that people could use it as a second car.

This is why I think the Smart is going to fail in the US. At the price DCX is talking about it's too expensive for what you get. You can get a Yaris for the same price, and though it's not as cute it's much more useful.

$450 with a $350 tax deduction, assuming you're in a typical tax bracket, will amount to somewhere between a $100 and $175 discount or so. So after you deal with the tax man in April your actual out of pocket will be on the order of $300ish. Unless you take the standard deduction in which case no discount for you.

A good deal? No. Good for the program? Unquestionably.

And just maybe it will prevent people from taking the laptops back from the third world (where they'd do some good) and putting them into a splitlevel ranch in the 'burbs outside some city in the US.

Only missing details - how much and where to buy?

Re Travis' comment. I'd love that too. What I'm leaning towards at the moment is buying a bunch of Airports, using iTunes and controlling it remotely using Salling Clicker and a few old Sony Ericsson T610 phones. It's functional, but not ideal.

You've all got it totally wrong. Phillips is your friend. By patenting this they've assured us that nobody else can do this without first getting a license from them and paying a fee. If I were Phillips I'd simply refuse to license the technology and everyone would be happy.

Yeah, that's it.

Oops - I forgot my sarcasm tags!

Maybe it's because I have a short attention span, but today's post on the KeySpan remote for iTunes has me a bit excited. It's cheap, exposes functionality that I want, and looks nice.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/07/keyspan-tuneview-serves-up-ipod-and-itunes-menus/

Naturally they're out of stock on the actual computer that goes inside.

In any case the computer itself is intended for embedded purposes... so the case is really just a marketing gimick. A clever one for all the fan boys, but i don't see how that's going to translate into a large number of sales of their boards (which is where they make their money).