For me tunnelr's no logging anonymous ssh and vpn service is wonderful, and reasonably priced.

I wish someone would make a companion 3d printer product that will recycle plastics into the plastic used to print things with some of these 3d printers. If you could turn most any plastic into a strong plastic ink source, then the cost of owning one of these printers goes down and gives people a reason to recycle with a fast gratification of making stuff.

One of my problems with Metro, visually, is that everything is flat looking... so I think Metro lack dressing.

How about shifting 90% of the military budget and off the book war spending to drug and health care investment?

You forgot the first step: 1) backup

I never liked Dolphin and had hoped that with Webkit, Konqueror would get a new lease on life via backports and inspiration from it's children, but sadly not.

After the smoking bans at bars and restaurants went into effect in Nantucket several bars built "outside" smoking areas that have roofs, no heating, and enough gaps in the walls to be considered outside. I am surprised more places have not done this. And, as a non-smoker, I see this workable win for both sides.

At least vlc can bypass that crap.

How about leaving your hardware behind and accessing your files remotely? Make use of SSH, a service like LogMeIn, or use the cloud with strong encryption with iTwin.

All you need is some bear mace. If it can bring down a bear, you know you should be safe, unless they are immune to pepper spray.

Growing up, I always wanted a voice jammer for family parrots when they decided they wanted to screech. I, also, wanted one to use on my sister when she annoyed me. These days, I would love one to use against people being rude and too loud talking on their cells while in shops and while watching a film in a theatre.

Besides, they already have a version of Office that runs on iOS and Android or anything else with a modern web-browser, it is called Office Live. Not that I would use it, but MS Office followers can.

I am no fan of Facebook as a platform, but you have to admit their contribution to OSS and open hardware designs has brought much to the tech community.

I would guess it is all about bandwidth speeds and volume with Intel backing closed standard Thunderbolt, while AMD is backing the more open standard DisplayPort1.2