I find it interesting that Google effectively sponsors competition to their Chrome browser. I wonder if it's to keep pressure up against Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I had the issue of notifications getting delayed on 4.2 with my Nexus 4 (I had to do 3rd party fixes to get them showing up at a reasonable delay). So far on 4.3, I'm getting my notifications instantly and my WiFi speeds are much faster. There seems to be a lot of under the hood fixes/updates that weren't mentioned. I'm sure tear-downs of the new firmware over the next few days will reveal a lot of bug fixes and other optimizations.

The idea of this mixed with an Oculus Rift would be amazing. We're getting close to the virtual reality they teased me with as a child.

Even if they shut it down (which I highly doubt), my Samsung ARM Chromebook runs Linux really well. So it might hurt the mom and pop users, but technically inclined people would be fine.

With the Leap Motion coming out soon, I wonder if its sales will put pressure on Microsoft release a PC adapter (or at least a cheap version of the Kinect for PCs). A link about the Leap Motion for those who haven't heard of it: https://www.leapmotion.com/

For some people it isn't. For me, I'd have no issue replacing my triple monitor eyefinity setup with a single 4k 50". It'd be about the same real estate side to side. And for photo editing and video work, it'd would be quite nice. But I'm probably just in a small niche of people that would find it useful.

Why spend $5,000 for a 32" when you can get a 50" 4k for under $1,500. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7674736 (groupon and a few other places have had it down to around $1,100 over the past few months) I know, some people probably find the 50" way too big. But it seems a bit silly that 32" is so more expensive.

One dirty sensor will muck that up fast. I'm horrible at washing my car. I wonder how forgiving the IR sensor's location will be to my bad habits.

I rather like my Chromebook. It fills in my occasional need for a laptop and putting a full build of Linux on a SDCard helps if I ever need to boot into something more powerful. But I hope that the often rumored merge between Android and ChromeOS happens at some point. A light weight online OS with full access to Android apps would meet my needs the majority of the time. I suppose even then, it would still be considered a niche product but I think it would be a step in the right direction.

It's a nice improvement on what was posted on here in 2002. http://news.slashdot.org/story/02/09/05/1814203/ripping-vinyl-via-your-scanner Much better quality scan, but the idea has been around a while.

These days, sure that kind of money seems like nothing. But back when I was young, I dealt with the whole starving artist thing. Money was super tight, living paycheck to paycheck. $125 for a bag of groceries? More like $20-40 for the week. And $2500 to record an album, that was more than my car cost then. A simple cheap car repair was able to devastate my budget. You're working on the basis that self-published authors have decent jobs. So yes, $125 is something to bitch about. That's a lot of money when you're scraping by and trying to get your first bits of work out there. Especially when you know that early in your self-publishing career, it's very likely it might not even sell enough to recoup that, even if the work is good.

I picked up an optical touchscreen a while back. It was nifty and kinda gimmicky. Then my cat figure out that she could mess with the computer with her tail when I was grabbing a drink or in another room. Now the touchscreen USB cable is left unplugged. I foresee this having the same issue.