In the 'Stuff to watch' category though, I've found this developer working on hacking his GM HSCAN bus to the point that he can remote start his car from his Android phone with a bluetooth OBDII dongle. He's working on releasing a couple of Android apps, but everything looks good so far. Website http://gtosoft.webs.com/ and Blog http://gtosoft.blogspot.com/

In some cases, we can do it for free WITH their hardware, too. I had a Motorola E815 a few years ago. Motorola designed it with a bunch of features (Bluetooth OBEX, microSD usage, Dialup tethering, music player off internal memory, etc.) that Verizon disabled so that you would have to pay and use their Get It Now service.

Fortunately, it was fairly easy so seem-edit the phone, and with the USB tether for the phone and a few questionably-legal programs you could re-enable all of the features. If you were really dedicated to the task, you could mash some of the alltel firmware in, and run Java (though I never did).

I would have replaced it with another of the same model (it was falling apart from wear and tear), but of course it had been replaced by the 'newest and greatest.'

Oh, and the best part of the phone? It DIDN'T run Verizon's OS.

The real choice is, do you adjust your battle plans to include all of your troops, or cut your force by one third?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine#Operation

"As it accelerates, several rails around the body of the car glow blue, a wormhole generator on top of the car makes a wormhole in front of the car."

As I remember, the car does shoot a couple of sparks or something forward just before the jump.