It uninstalls all versions of Internet Explorer and installs Firefox with Adblock pre-installed.

Bravo Microsoft!

I have come back in time using the faster than light technology developed from pulsar beams in the year 2010 to tell the world NOT TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY!

Everyone just zips around everywhere and the infrastructure of the world crumbles. Don't let it happen to you!

Fast-forward to 30 years from now.

See what I did there?

An earlier article said that Natal was accurate down to 3 centimeters... As long as they're accurate within 10 inches, it would work for me! =P

The message NASA will receive probably won't be sent from the dead Mars lander... most likely it will be something like:

I think my girlfriend has saved up enough cell phone usage to prevent alzheimers in both of us!

See, that's exactly what bothered me about the Wii. Everyone was so excited about a game controller where you get to mimic real movement... that is until everyone figured out how you could really play...

The game won't even start up until Natal recognizes spiky yellow hair.

Here is a tech demo showing a Peter Molyneux demonstration of a game using Natal.

The ramifications of a system like this are pretty important I think. Honestly, this is what I had hoped the Wii would become... Not to start a Wii controller vs. Natal debate or anything, but I feel like games using full body motion capture would be much more interesting to me. At the end of the day, when I tried to play Wii tennis using proper motions and what not, I felt like an idiot after looking over and seeing someone else accomplish the same thing by flicking their wrist.

That said, I am interested to see how finely grained the sensitivity will be tuned to Natal recognizing people and motions. IE: if person A is playing a single player game and person B walks up and makes a hand motion, will Natal disregard that motion, or will it do whatever person B did? If so, it could seriously dent the efficacy of games being played by one person... Part of the benefit of having a physical controller is that someone else has to take it from you when they want to play, haha!

While Sprint is notorious for being overzealous in preventing customers from activating phones from other networks, this may be slightly different, because the phone originates from Google.

Sprint probably disallows cross-carrier activations because of competition or some licensing issue, but when the phone originates from Google (not a cellular or pcs carrier), they may not care.

Google Voice basically just relays the call.

IE: You give Google Voice the number you want to dial, then the number you want it to connect you to, and Google calls you and when you answer, it dials the number you want to call. Once the call connection is made, it's still just using your regular phone network (cellular or otherwise).

Interesting. Mod parent up!

Right now I am using Sprint on an old plan that is rather inexpensive. My plan is as follows:

1000 Anytime minutes
Nights and Weekends Start at 6pm
Unlimited SMS/MMS
Unlimited Data

And for that I pay $40 (base plan) + $20 (SMS/MMS) + $10 (data) - 25% discount for a total of $52.50. I haven't found a comparable plan with all the additionals for anywhere near that price on any other network, but I'm starting to get tired of not having access to some of these exciting new phones. Does anyone using T-Mobile have any insight into what it would be like switching to T-Mobile?

I wasn't trolling.

Yes I read the summary, and I've been following information about the nexus as it became available last week.

Sprint uses CDMA, not SIM.

Nice troll. But try again.

I know that Verizon and T-Mobile phones use SIM cards, so theoretically you could unlock those phones and switch networks, but why won't there be a Sprint version?

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but it seems either A) shortsighted of Google to ignore the largest cellular network, or B) stupid of Sprint to pass up such a kickass phone...

PSSSH - Awwww year. That's the stuff.

Here's the sound from the game