Innovation is a good contender, though it's got to be "plan". Some of the chaps in my department spout the term but quite frankly they couldn't plan their way out of a paper bag. Hurrah for being a civil servant...

Potentially terminator now has cloaking. We are so doomed! Or at least those who live in the future are doomed. Since that doesn't presently include me, I think I shall enjoy a friday night beer and no doom:O)

This would suggest I'm a little bit to the left. This will not please my parents at all...

Nope, there's no global warming due to CO2. The problem is all these people who leave windows open while the heating is on. They "want a bit of fresh air". Go the the park I say.

I just got an internet enabled TV and now you tell me!

Seems rather the same over here in the UK. Rather sad isn't it.

Excelently put. Though if I went for a job and the interviewer didn't know anything about recent history I'd be a little worried about what they thaught the future would hold. Perhaps the laptops should be issued to all students who do all their homework and appear to be giving school a go. Don't have to be good, but should try and be rewarded for it.

If every child gets a laptop, that's great as long as they're used. Microsoft did a study at my school in the 90's, giving half the students in the first year a laptop and not the other. The net reault was half the students carried on being taught the normal way and the other were also taught the normal way but had to carry a laptop about too. Essentially they were expensive bricks that did not get used. I often noticed the students with the laptops being taught in the PC rooms, using up desktop computers and with their laptops left in their bags on the floor beside them. When one of the most computationally ahead schools in the UK in the 90s couldn't think of anything to do with the laptops, do we expect people with no computer skills to do anything other than check email and play angry birds? Perhaps what's really needed is staff awareness, a curriculum and then laptops - in that order.

Indeed, it's all very nice having some software, but it'll nail you to a particular set of hardware - and that's now 3 years out of date...

For when soap is just too simple...

Ozone and free radicals – very bad for bacteria. Further, this is not plasma, this is corona. Plasma is fully ionised gas. Corona on the other hand is an area or volume of week discharge through a gas – which is what this is. So this is a pen shaped thing with a week high frequency ~20kV discharge, almost certainly capacitivly coupled to the output to limit current. If it isn’t capacitivly coupled or otherwise current limited – hello RF burns!

By the same logic I can call myself a toddler.

That's not in between, that's the second option. At least in my mind anyhow.

Imagine everyone being fed from the same source of information. General knowledge will soon become GENERAL knowledge. Then nobody will have anything interesting to talk about.

Perhaps if it issued random information so that not all people got quite the same experiance, we'd still have something to talk about.

Sooo... Would this cause your brain to overload with all the additional information - or for it to step aside and cease to function?

While you could dive in at the deep end and purchase a drone, they’re more expensive than a house. Some are more expensive than a full road of houses! (my new currency is houses, does anyone have change for one?)

Back to the point. Sounds like you have a cool hobby. Freely climbing in a range of local mountains and valleys! Awesome!

If this project is to be a hobby rather than just a tool, then perhaps starting small and working up would be a good way to progress.

For filming in caves I’ve purchased a small helicopter with a camera. It was not expensive and can’t deal with wind at all. Fine for caves though. Image quality is at the fun end of the spectrum rather than good

Rather like a drone, I’m not flying it while viewing the footage. I have to download it after. It has completely changed my direction from wanting a drone to wanting immediate feedback of the footage. Perhaps later, if I get really enthusiastic (kids are on the way so this won’t happen) drone like modes would be good. There’s no way to control anything once it’s gone round a couple of corners in a cave as the rock eats radio waves you see.

In conclusion I present 2 directions for you. Firstly a hobby, progressing and building up to whatever it is that you really want, testing the water along the way. Or secondly, to become an evil mastermind, live inside one of your local mountains with lots of minions to do you bidding and use a giant parabolic space mirror to see around your local area.