Donâ(TM)t forget that most people also use a mobile phone that was created by an advertising company.

I nearly cry every time I fire up Google Picasa to edit my photos, and realise that this awesome piece of software will never be updated. It's face tagging was awesome and around long before Google Photos could do that.

One wonders if they also looked at French wine using the same process/rigour?

The Pebble has an always on display that is perfectly readable under normal room lighting levels and also bright sunlight. In darker rooms and night-time a simple flick of your wrist is all it takes to turn on the back-light to display the time, or navigate a dark house. I had a basic Pebble, but have upgraded to the Pebble Time Steel, with colour e-ink display and metal band. The standard watch faces are fine for some people, but I wanted a little more. I've some fairly basic programming skills (20 years rusty), and I've been able to create my own face that has just the elements that I want. I've had fun learning about: math for the hand movements; generating and displaying tick marks; adding vibrations for a basic chime; displaying battery levels.

Battery life sitting at about 9 days, which I could extend if I took out the second hand movement, smooth moving hands (and didn't update the whole display every second). When it's getting flat, I can charge it fully while having a shave and shower.

I'm more than happy with mine.

Why on earth would you ever need 30 fps on a watch?

You think that's bad, I've got an iPhone and I drive a Prius. But I have a Pebbel and not an iWatch if that counts for anything

I work in a school where some of the student/teacher laptops are touch and some not.

I don't need or want touch on a desktop - I've got a full keyboard and and a real mouse.

On my personal macbook pro - touch would be nice, but the mac's touch-pad is pretty sweet, though occasionally I connect a real mouse

On last year's laptop, a 12" windows laptop with a tiny touch-pad - it is crying out for a touch screen.

On this year's model laptops that have windows 8, touch screen and a touch-pad too - it is awesome.

For fast use the touch screen, clicking dialog boxes, installing software, fixing things - you generally don't have to keep typing.

For accurate use the touch-pad. editing, anything that uses both keyboard and mouse.

Not used one lately hey?, the whole magic mouse surface is the button - and it is multi-touch enabled.

One finger click for regular left click. Two finger click for regular right click.

On a Mac you can have both of these - my Windows 7 bootcamp install is also the VMware target. So I can run it natively for games, and later as a VM if for I'm working on OSX. Not upgraded yet to 10 - hoping it works just as well.

I love the fact that the included OSX backup (and dead simple) program Time Machine, creates a bootable USB backup - there's nothing remotely similar in Windows land but should be.

Once my parents had access to a decent internet connection (not just a modem) then I soon transferred them over to use Crashplan and have everything backed up at my place on an old Windows Home Server - works perfectly fine, and I get an email if the backup fails or doesn't run regularly.

Sure I'd have to build a new PC if theirs fails but all dad's family tree info and photos are safely backed up at my place (and online too)

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Likewise, I'm still waiting for the release of Star Wars Episodes I, II, & III to be made.

There was an attempt a few years ago by some George Lucas look-alike, but they were far too silly to really be part of the story:

Midichlorians and a Jar like character - strange ideas for a semi-decent sci-fi story.

Julian Clary?

Might not be so well known in the US, as in UK and Australia Not my favourite, but was the first one that I though of.

The biggest problem that people starting to rebuild civilisation after most of us have been wiped out - is going to be energy sources, then metals.

All of the easy to get to coal, oil and metals have been strip mined and basically used up - the really hard to get to stuff (which they won't be able to get to) is going to be all that remains.

The coal and oil could eventually be replenished, but only in geological timescales (and favourable conditions)

I suspect they'll be a stone-age people until a passing UFO checks out the world that suddenly went quiet.