They're fans of APL? I didn't know there were any still around.

They're pushing a new connector for USB too.

None of the articles I've seen mentioned which version of Novec is being used. They have a great variety: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/po...

What's the other prior art for the unlocking gesture?

You do it too much and people recognize it for what it is. People start ignoring your announcements and your marketing power weakens.

> Shockley

Shockley worked at Bell Labs, which was a government approved monopoly that received some of its funding from the government, especially the military. Shockley himself worked on various government committees and as a consultant.

There Google goes again, copying Apple. This time getting themselves sued for the same reason.

That may be very well for you, but Ayn would say that if you disagree with any of her ideas, especially including atheism, then you don't understand her at all.

Some of the things you originally mentioned like wages, taxes and transportation costs won't be significantly different between LEDs and incandescents. For other things you mentioned the prices will go down as they are mass produced and further efficiencies are found. Of course this will take time and LEDs will probably never be as cheap as incandescents, but at some point in the future they'll probably be at a price where there is no sticker shock.

In this context you only need to get the price down to be close to that of incandescent bulbs.

As production of LED bulbs increase their costs will go down.

Don't need to judge by the cover, you can read an excerpt here.

I recommend the book highly.

Get Make: Electronics - Learning Through Discovery published by O'Reilly. Books from O'Reilly are DRM-free.

Thingm has a similar series of products called blink(1). It runs for about $30, but it is not widely available now. They recently finished .

Adafruit is now accepting bitcoin. I think they're crazy.