I can, and a decade+ later so can he.

Plans for these have been around forever. Many, many people have built them.
hovercraft.com has many plans and kits for sale.

When my son was 9, he called me at work one day. "Dad, do we have a leaf blower?"....Yes..."Do we have a piece of plywood 4 feet wide?"....Yes. (I can see the wheels turning)...He goes on to list a bunch of other parts.
'Ok, dude....why?'
"I have a science project! I want to make a hovercraft!"

"OK then." He had gone online and found plans for a simple floating platform. No forward thrust, powered by a leaf blower.

It worked well enough to float my fatass down the driveway.

He got an A. My wife freaked out when I chose this as a teaching moment in how to use a circular saw.

Not to say there won't be those that will take and upload, but I'm asking about the possibility of using it, you know, as a non-connected camera?

Text from the currently running Sprint TV ad:

“We can share every second in data dressed in pixels.”
“A billion roaming photo-journalists uploading the human experience.”
“I need to upload all of me.”

Yes, people will do this. Continuously.
Look at how many share every facet of their lives on Facebook.

Check the specific terms, but usually no. IMHO.
The extended warranty company already has your money. They have every incentive not to give any of it back in the form of a repair.

I had this exact issue with an extended warranty on a slightly used car. Something broke, but as part of the chain of breaking parts was a non-covered part, the timing belt (a consumable), everything after that was not covered. The initial break was a covered part, but that did not matter.
Their default answer was deny, deny, deny. Eventually they threw me a bone and paid half.

The tanker was there anyway. it also had to return to Hickam with the F-22's to tank them on the way.
The software glitch was a one time thing, in a brand new aircraft. Fixed within 36 hours.

But yes. Let's continue the theme that the pilots suck, the aircraft are useless, and up until recent times, each and every deployment (be it people or a new machine) went perfectly.

Pilots and radios are completely different.

1, it is task oriented. You are not gabbing about grocery lists, or where Ralph in accounting left the Finster file.
2. It is a half-duplex conversation. Your brain is not engaged in listening for the other person to say something, until you release the mic button.

I don't care how Siri was 'designed to be used'. I care abut how it actually works in practice.
Do people actually look at the screen? Yes.
Is it stable enough and good enough that people actually trust it to not screw up the text? No.

I may be a biased commentator, but I am currently on the hunt for a replacement vehicle specifically because of a texting driver. Luckily, I am still vertical and breathing.

This is but the precursor to the concepts in the book 'The Light of Other Days'. Yes, the past is 100 or 1000 years ago. It is also 0.5 seconds ago.

Do we really want to be under that microscope? Oh well...we won't have a choice. Someone will build it, and we will gladly pay through the nose to have it.

I am not sure if this is true or not, but I have heard that when they are doing that, they have no legal right to detain you from leaving the store, and you are more than welcome to simply leave without them checking the receipt.

At BJ's/Sams/Costco, yes they can. Being membership clubs, it is on the agreement when you sign up and pay for membership.

disclaimer - the wife works at one of those

Um, I had a system like this a decade ago. Laptop instead of Pi, but still the same thing.
Still have it, still use it. With the same laptop.

10 cm.

Install one or two of these in rear seat of a taxi. How many can you snag during a typical shift?

Like it makes a difference.
Approx 880 fee or 268 meters. Take your pick.

They didn't seem to track how long your attention was diverted.

As an unwilling participant in a recent episode, I can state that the other driver was completely distracted for at least a full 10 seconds, at around 60mph.
She was facing a red light for almost 3 full football fields. I went back and measured the timing of that intersection.

Apparently, actually looking out the window was too much work.

Voice, bluetooth, text, handheld, hendsfree, VoiceToText.....screw you.

As someone who is waiting on a (too small) settlement check for my destroyed vehicle, all I can say is put the fucking phone away and drive the damn car.
Texting teen blows a red light at 60, and I'm lucky the only thing destroyed was my vehicle. I am still vertical and breathing.

Hanging upside down from the seatbelt, covered in broken glass was not the way I wanted to spend the afternoon.

There is no flying car there. All I see is a muti-rotor platform, lifting a mannikin. A scaled-up Parrot AR.

Whoopdi freakin do.