Some time ago, there was a university experiment combining a high-resolution (centered) display with a large-surface but low-res projection, for peripheral vision. Never heard of it again, so apparently it wasn't that successful. IIRC, the high-res part was fixed, though.
Small 1080p displays should be available, there's plenty of LCD projectors. Possibly not in an inch, probably not too cheap.

Actually, one of these plus a 20" portrait (1200x1600) screen to it's left and right is a fair bit more awesome than just the 30" display. Since, if you're doing that, you probably run two video cards anyways: throw in a 1080p projector, just in case of wanting to watch a movie in bed or something. Ten million pixels. Fun!

Working fine here. Synology appliance with an extension unit connected through eSATA. SMART is working fine for all disks in the extension and base units.

The theoretical limit of a DS1010+ and a DX510 (which is the only Synology offering in the 20 TB range) is actually 16 TB due to them using ext3. With 2 TB drives the best you can actually get are 14.5 TB with RAID-6 or RAID-5+Hotspare. Spanning a RAID-5 over all disks would result in a volume slightly larger than 16 TB, which will not work. I've tried it.
Still, 14.5 TB is pretty much okay in my book. If you actually do need more, build a Backblaze pod (same price league as two DS1010+ with a DX510 ea.; more then double the drives of that) or be spendy and get an X4500 (related as far as the number of drives goes. A completely different class in all other aspects.)

On the WD20EADS: I've had nine of those running in a mostly perfect environment (active cooling, probably never hitting 40 deg C) for about half a year now. Three of them have since died in rapid succession with little warning, one is in the process of following suit. Skip the old ones, go straight for the WD20EARS.
As for the rest of the hardware: I've gotten myself a Synology DS1010+ with a DX510. Ten bays for less than $1500, running at acceptable noise levels. As far as cons go, you're limited to ext3 and it's maximum partition size of 16 TiB. Because you can only use whole disks to build an array, the effective limit is around 14.5 TiB using ten 2 TB disks in RAID-6, 5+Hotspare or nine disks in RAID-5. On the pro side you have easy set-up, well-built hardware and acceptable performance. Alternatives might include Thecus' N7700 (7 bays around $1k) or something from QNAP. Some of them offer stacking (i.e. 7 disks with one appliance, 14 with two, 21 with three), xfs, a built-in battery backup and so on.

Talking about the capacities of single memory/storage chips, using losercase b (bit) figures has been the standard for years. Since only techies who care about the capacity of the actual chips read this, it's not that much of an issue.
As soon as you're talking about an assembled product (be it a RAM module, SSD or even a smartphone), it'll be B (for bytes) again.

Without your knowledge, they'd track down the Borders' IP address to the store, drive up to it, have a cup of coffee with a laptop hooked up to the store wifi, wait for the torrenting to continue, gather your internal IP address, it's corresponding MAC address and, with some additional equipment might even track down the direction your signal originates from.
Then, they'd take a stroll in that direction, check neighboring apartments for cantennas strapped in front of windows and similar constructions. Upon finding one, a couple of CIA (Copyright Inquisition Agency) agents would fly by in a couple of black hawks and, guns blazing, join you for tea, crumbs and torrenting.

For subscribers, that's true. Not for communications providers, though. Yesterday's /. story has some additional discussion.

There might be some honeybuckets in the tracker's list

The big name trackers have, for some time now, been sending random IP addresses out in every response. It's usually one to three in 50, which isn't a lot, but enough for some plausible deniability. With multiple trackers confirming a peer's address, that plausibility shrinks to very close to zero. Still, receiving a peer's address from a tracker hasn't been any evidence in quite a bit.

[They] denied the dog access since they confused it for a gay dog.

From what I can gather from TFS, they deny access to any dog - regardless of its sexual preferences. They make an exeption for guide dogs, because many blind people rely on these to, well, guide them. Mistaking guide for gay, the denier probably didn't realize he might be dealing with a guide dog, straight or not. The dog's skimpy leathery outfit might've played some part in the confusion as well. You might expect a gay dog to wear such a thing, or a guide dog, but both? At the same time? Who'd think of such a thing?

The effect seems to be positive nonetheless. According to their page, communications providers don't really need to bother looking at infringement reports. Classify yourself as one and AAISP won't care about your infringement reports directed to them. You, equally, don't have to care about your infringement reports directed to yourself; after all you're a communications provider, not a subscriber.
If whomever is sending out the reports is serious, they can still go the legal route. They could do that before (sue John Doe to get your information from the ISP, then sue you) and still can (sue you directly). In any case, the whole infringement report business is rendered useless.

why would any company want a market that small?

Google's MO usually doesn't include selling a gadget to a customer in exchange for some money; there's too much labor per-piece, handling of physical objects and dealing with lots of small customers involved.
What they're trying to do, is push the Android platform. Every now and then, they'll throw out a very shiny and rather expensive toy to enthusiasts, developers and the like; to set a bit of a bar and demonstrate their vision of where other manufacturers are to go. A couple of thousand units are sold, HTC quickly whips up their version (with Sense, sans some Google exclusivity) and sells many more at a more attractive price, with more marketing and actually aimed at the general public.

The G1 and N1 owners push sales of the Heroes, Desires (high-end and) and Legends (lower-end N1 alternatives) just by having a shiny exclusive toy. Thanks to a geek-friendly buying process and very limited support, Google doesn't have to deal with Joe Sixpack's questions to tech support, grabs a couple of megabucks towards development of the next model and, most importantly, pushes android. Us geeks get to play with a shiny gadget without the uncoolness of everybody's grandma and their dog getting one (iP*). HTC and relatives sell the bulk of the devices and, having some experiences with Joe & co, can deal with their customers' problems. Everybody wins.