Doesn't make sense for a laptop, but it's a common paradigm on mobile devices. There's flight sims etc. for Android/iOS where you steer by tilting your device like a little kid making racecar noises.

Yes, IT is a terrible field for making use of calculus. Try engineering, especially fields like control systems. My boss has a PhD in control engineering and he can basically take a signal and turn it inside out and backwards to find out whatever he wants because he knows off the top of his head what kind of curve he'll get if he, say, integrates the signal twice.

We had about 200 people in Boston. Not a huge protest but we got good press and everything went really smoothly, the message was focused and police escorted us the whole way without issue.

http://bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2013/07/nsa_s_surveillance_program_blasted_by_hub_demonstrators

They had this in 1984. It was called a telescreen. Like the Kinect One, the telescreen can't be turned off.

Well, the 1 person does need a communication channel to their rubber duck.

ArcBotics actually has another Kickstarter going right now for a line follower robot!

Disclaimer: I worked on Hexy. Still finding the scrap acrylic from laser cutting the M3 screw holes everywhere.

Umm you do realize that bullets have changed in the past 200 years and aren't a simple round ball anymore, right?

Quick, someone introduce Clint Eastwood to him!

Your ultracaps are right on over here: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/capacitors/electric-double-layer-capacitors-supercaps/131084

It sounds like a good deal until you start having to dodge flying chairs...

Guster's not the only one to have done this. Despite all of the hate they get over Napster etc, you can't say no to Metallica performing live with Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

I do.

You forgot to tell him to get off your lawn.

Oh we know better than to automate ourselves out of a job, learned that one from the IT people! In our case, it also requires bringing about the singularity, so it's kind of hard to do by accident anyways.

Hi, I'm a professional roboticist. Here's some super awesome (often deliciously job-crushing) automation systems off the top of my head:

Automated fast food preparation. Yes, that's right. Those jobs are going.
Safe, easily reprogrammable robotic factory line workers. No light curtains. More cost effective than a minimum wage US worker and still improving.
Automated chemical solution preparation. This normally eats up the time of lab researchers using their PhD to essentialy do high school chemistry that's standard grunt work.
Modular biological lab automation systems. Similar to the previous one, this eliminates a bunch of grunt work that lab researchers normally have to do themselves.
More laboratory automation.
A fairly high-end pick and place machine assembling PCBs. Shenzen eat your heart out.