My wife was born without a pupil in her right eye; she had at least one surgery a year at the Wilmer Institute until she was in her teens to try to fix it, and then they gave up. She now wears a nonfunctional prosthetic cap that looks perfectly normal unless you get to within an inch or two and notice it doesn't refract light in quite the same way that her left eye does.

Monocular vision does not lend itself to experiencing 3D on a 2D screen. We will never own a 3D TV. If the writing is ever on the wall and they're all that's left, we'll stop watching.

I sure don't. My comment was just as much an excuse to post that video as to contribute relevant discourse. But I put in a number of years in the bicycle industry. The better component manufacturers also do things for the aerospace industry; conditions fluctuating between sea level and a few dozen thousand feet probably do a number on equipment as well. The stuff is also likely a mite simpler and easier to re-engineer (if necessary) than a gas analyzer shed.

Have a look at some of the photos that Hanebrink has posted. Seems to me like they know a thing or two about testing. It's in a wind tunnel, presumably a refrigerated one.

If I had to guess, I'd figure the trickiest bit would be coming up with chain lube and bearing grease that weren't completely useless... and replacing a broken chain while wearing heavily insulated gloves.

The bike industry has had ample experience making stuff that holds up to getting bashed around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYgAX6D43Q

Seriously, ftg. His fifteen minutes are up. He deserves nothing more than to be ignored and live in perpetual ignominy until somebody requires a textbook example of how not to treat anybody.

One more robot.

"Google reportedly made a $6 billion bid for Google last December, but it was not taken up by Groupon's board." ...wait, what?

Obligatory PBF:

http://tinyurl.com/3ekkkvv

I was with Virgin Mobile for five years, but initiated the process to port my number to Google yesterday due to my office now providing me with an iPhone. Wife is going to drop her Verizon dumbphone Real Soon Now in favor of a VM plan and Android phone.

If VM could step it up on the phone side of things (and this hot Motorola they offer now is moving in the right direction) I'd be hard-pressed to recommend any other service. $35/month for 300m and "unlimited" data/texting? Hells to the yes.

For you, sir or madam:

http://www.orbaudio.com/

Let's go back even further. It's been happening for sixty years.