... Apple would probably sue them for a patent infringement. Better everyone stays well away from them and everything they produce.

It's a pity, this is a great example and great use of technology but deep down, it's just not able to deliver any real benefits over any other sedan.

The energy costs of the car in an entire lifespan are probably equal or worse than petrol. This technology requires more energy to make and involves expensive mid-term disposable battery packs. Energy used for it has probably had 50% of it's already non-optimal conversion efficiency wasted in down-the-wire transmission.

When that's taken into account, what's the point really? Lets just get over to being a renewable power produced hydrogen economy already. There are no other options that really help.

I still want one though. Shove an apple logo on it and it'd sell by the shipload.

M-x psychoanalyse-pinhead

This happened early in the days of the Irish national lottery, though it wasn't simply due to a roll-over and the people who purchased all of the tickets they could had to win the jackpot to turn a profit. I believe they succeeded though I can't remember the details!

Not to take away from it, as I think it's a nice way of raising the profile of Bletchley Park among young mathematicians, but it's decoding as you're given the code-book.

Without this software on your iDevice, you can't get adult material on the iPhone if parental locks are on. With it on, you can. What's to see here?

All apps that have unfettered access to the Internet have the 17+ nag screen. Browsers, RSS readers... This isn't a story, this is Apple bashing.

I strongly believe this is going to be a future social revolution along the same lines of the Internet and Social Media.

The point at which we have all got our mobile phone/camera embedded in our body with the ability to record at at thought will be a revolution in personal security. It will no longer be possible to commit crime against the person without serious risk of being identified.

This may come as a wearable device or it may come as an implanted device. Hell, as we're blue sky thinking it may simply interface to the retina, but I think it's the next logical step in convergent devices - converge with the user. This is a step towards that.

My approach is fairly simple. I have a pair of cheap dual disk NAS boxes, one in my shed and the other in the house. The larger one backs up to the smaller one and both have the redundancy of RAID. I'm fairly happy with that, they should survive a fire without me feeling the need to dash into the burning building to save them.

I then have a HTPC (Acer Aspire Revo running XBMC) connected to my main TV which allows photo browsing. I've set up scripts that automatically file the photos based on their EXIF date (/yyyy/mm/dd)

However, something I also do, by virtue of my wife 'ordering' photos, is get them printed. She goes through the vast numbers of photos that we rarely look, cherry picks the best ones which I sometimes crop or adjust and sent off to be professionally printed. Our house is littered with photo books, albums and frames. Sure, if the house burns down they're gone but that's pretty normal. My mother has a collection of photos with burnt edges from her childhood.