You' re piping hot on this one! (steam kettles)

Apparently Aperture Labs are considering offering him a job.

"Set the controls for the heart of the Sun ..."

So if there is a signal and they've made it available to everyone on Earth, how much does that work out to in damages?

I may be being simplistic, but isn't most of the hardware required in phones and MP3 player these days? If you could have a bluetooth earpiece connected to a pocketsized device that does the processing for you most of the miniaturization issues are solved. It may be a step back from an all-in-one device, but most people have pockets full of gadgets these days anyway. So imagine a lapel mike, an iPod nano sized processor and a wireless earpiece - now it's a software problem. (Any programmers on Slashdot these days?)

Even if the software needed a professional set-up to calibrate for the individual surely this would drive the price down.

And think of the PR - all those people claiming MP3 players make you deaf - what if you made one that helped the deaf to hear?

Please, no jokes about the iEar or Google Cyborg.

... but they'll win on a-peel ...

That was Adams' real gift - it was his uniqueness being more unique that anyone else's. Anyone can be unique, but being more uniquely unique than anyone else needs a special talent.
If only everyone could be as unique as him. I think we should try to mimic this uniqueness, maybe teach it in large classrooms where everyone can learn by rote exactly what made it unique and reproduce it in a precisely quantified manner.

... and so on ...

I liked the line in Wikipedia: This plug, commonly known as a "13-amp plug", is a large plug that has three rectangular prongs forming a triangle
Any ideas what other shapes three pins can form?

I'm waiting for Mo2n