It is about early to ask about smart watches. How about first asking what it would take people to buy a smart phone, or a smart television? Personally, perhaps threats of cruel death, on all three accounts.

In the Netherlands, many immigrants drive old run-down mercedeses, because of status, and because they are fairly cheap to buy. However, they cannot afford the maintenance, which is rather expensive with old run-down cars. I can imagine a similar situation in the US.

But for road maintenance there is car ownership tax (called road tax) 30 to a 100 dollars per months, depending on car size and weight. And rush hour tax coming soon. Fuel tax is just general income for the government.

The first prototypes for 4K and 8K were demonstrated at the same time, somewhere about 2010. I think we are moving a bit fast through the standards, hence I will skip the 4K hype and perhaps I will hop back on the pixel train when 8K monitor enter production, in about 5 years. Moreover, edgelit panels will likely have vanished completely, by then.

And sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

Adds that play 'you are an idiot', loud and repeatedly, so that my enemies will becomes the laughing stock of their workplace.

Go print your own house!

Gladiatus, Travian and the like. Then playing brain games on web interfaces, like go and sometimes chess.

For your information and pleasure: https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

One nanobitcoin per day. :)

I have a Nokia. They last forever, and never become 'old phones'. They stay alright as long as I will. ;)

Very low quality pdf, and in Dutch... but it is what you asked for. :) https://blog.xs4all.nl/wp-cont...

And that is why Dutch customers prefer foreign hard disks, which do not have the movie-industry-fee on it. I have bought hundreds of empty CDroms in Germany, in bygone years. That was 20% to 30% cheaper, without the music/movietax :)

Uploading of copyrighted material is illegal though, so torrent sites are a bit of a slippery slope. However, downloading is fine, because the downloader cannot always verify the source, and hence cannot determine whether the source is uploading legally or not. What the uploader is doing, is not the downloader's problem.

As extra information, the blocking of TPB has been lifted, in the Netherlands. Mostly because because downloading copyrighted content is not illegal.