16 contact points ought to be enough for anybody. No one will need more than 16 contact points for multi-touch input.

Also it should double as a sniper rifer ... just in case he needs to fight off any alien invasions on the way down.

Well, where do you think baby asteroids come from?

Were they African or European dragonflies?

Great, now my boss will be asking me to increase our microcontroller's ROM size with a software update.

Entering IDDT once reveals the whole map. Twice reveals monsters and I believe rockets also show up on the map. You could run around playing it as sort of an indoor bastardized version of Asteroids.

That must be why you need a spaceship to shoot moonbugs.

Gasoline used to be life.

Of course. Obviously they had to postpone their launch after this totally-not-a-misfiring-rocket thing turned up!

... from the hunchbacked lab assistant union. This technology could mean the death of the time honored skilled trade of mad science related grave robbery.

Hey hey, give him the benefit of doubt. It could just as easily be part of an infinite loop.

Great Scott!

I'm curious if/how they'll overcome the fact that the display (contact) now moves with your eye. A computer monitor is stationary and your eyes dart around the screen focusing on a small portion at a time, the rest being varying degrees of peripheral vision. Are there going to be tiny MEMS gyros/accelerometers to detect the movement of the eye and shift the display image accordingly? Otherwise I'd think you could only (usefully) see the part of the display closest to the central focal point.

And as soon as we put all of our space travel eggs in the spice harvesting basket, somebody will come along and oppress all of humanity for 3500 years.