The (large) company I currently work for almost had it right for a while - basically if you came up with a suggestion that made or saved the company a load of cash, you and your colleagues who came up with it would find yourselves on the receiving end of a cheque (or vouchers, for tax purposes) for a fair % chunk of it, for example if you saved them a million pounds you could well land yourselves 10k each. It's an economic no-brainer really.

Nothing motivates people like a pile of cash or as-good-as-cash vouchers. After all, why do we turn up for work every day?

Of course it was too good to last and after an unrelated management clusterfuck that cost them dear they shut it down and offered far less attractive terms that I know for a fact has lead to several great ideas being kept under wraps by employees who'd rather go solo (or to a rival company) with their idea than give it over for nothing more than a pat on the back.

That would work if the earpiece speaker made the sound rather than the sounder for the ringtone. I wonder if cameras imported from elsewhere in the world will have to comply? Or if tourists will be stopped at customs and all their phones & cameras checked?

Light is more secure, in that it doesn't pass through walls, blinds, curtains, etc.

You could go as far as making selective filter films that the security-conscious could put on their windows to cut the wavelengths used, a bit like skylight filters for camera lenses. Considerably cheaper than lining your building with copper. There's also selective paint as used by the military on vehicles, that can either absorb or reflect the frequencies used depending on if you want to bounce the signal around the place or stop it from going too far.

Of course, if you squirt the light down a magic glass tube of some sort, it's even more secure and could one day be used to transmit data over short distances with good immunity to EMI, and minimal crosstalk. Meh, it'll never catch on anyway.

Well up the bitrate and reduce the loss - people talk a lot of shit about hi-fi but in reality a decent MP3 will be indistinguishable from anything else on 99% of gear in 99% of listening situations.

I refuse to listen to "research" from people who don't even know how to make a cup of tea.

You seem to be confusing a measure of resolution with a measure of sensitivity or accuracy. It doesn't matter if it's 24 bits per colour if the results aren't accurate or if the thing can't detect any light in the first place. When you can post up a picture of WASP-10b taken with your digi cam, I'll eat my hat.