I spend almost no time dialing phone #s. I just pick a contact. Phones were reversed because people used to be able to dial faster than the phone system could handle. If you want a modified number layout, get a smartphone and reprogram the dialing interface. Leave the calculator at its default layout, it's a good setup.

Animals came from miles around. So tired of walking so close to the ground... What is the law? No spill blood!

The article doesn't mention that LG modified how the TVs display 3D recently to increase the resolution. "Before the Cinema 3D technology worked like this: During a time period of 1/200 seconds the TV showed 2 frames; 540 lines for the left eye and 540 lines for the right eye. The new algorithm shows 4 frames instead of 2 during the 1/200 second time frame. It shows 1080i for the left eye and 1080i for the right eye." from http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1304582822

Tell that to every scientist that watched a space shuttle launch as a child and was inspired to learn. Not all rewards are obvious and tangible.

It's highly useful. You get all the benefit of e-ink and the ability to buy books at any bookstore. This makes it better than an e-ink device that is locked to a single ebook provider. As for swapping over to the Nook Color, that's fine if someone wants an LCD screen, but some of us like the idea of having an open e-ink device.

"Simultaneous connection to a Wi-Fi Direct-certified group and an infrastructure network is an optional feature." From what I can tell, it more or less is a 1-on-1 (or 1-on-many depending on device's settings) automated AD Hoc (with pre-defined settings). Since connecting to both a Direct Connection and infrastructure network at the same time is optional, I assume it would have 2 WiFi devices installed to do this (if it only uses 1 device to do both I'd be surprised). As such, it's very similar to a laptop that has 2 WiFi units, 1 connecting to a local hub and the other running in AD Hoc mode. It sounds like WiFi Direct just simplifies it for the average person into a plug and play style. Nothing really new from a technology viewpoint, it's more a new standard to make implementation and certification of existing tech easier.

I'll take your word on the costs for in-store video prices. Other then grocery shopping, I try to avoid brick and mortar stores and do online shopping instead. Thanks to sites like Slickdeals, Fatwallet, Dealnews, etc I'm able to get prices I mentioned. Even at $25-30 for new release Blu-Rays, it seems to be quite a leap to go from $4 VOD to $20-30 VOD for getting the video an extra month(or two) early compared to price of owning the actual medium. I could see a market for this if the price included a copy of the Blu-Ray on release. IE- Pre-Order the Blu-Ray for a slight premium($4-10 more) and get to watch it streamed 2 months before release.

So if they want to use my tweets to break alibis, does this mean I can make tweets to reinforce them? '8:00 in bed and going to sleep' '9:00 woke up to the sound of a gun shot in the distance, I hope Bob the snitch is okay' '9:15 Going downtown with Officers for a cup of coffee, they are so nice' '9:30 after officers read my tweets, they apologized for wasting my time and drove me home'