No, you can charge them with cash at any train station.
Using a credit card is optional.

That is hardly an "open source" camera.

All they have done on the hardware side is stick a bunch of point grey camera units in a circular holder.
Of course it is going to be expensive!

Point grey cameras are indeed convenient for testing, but are not suitable for this at all.
A $15 image sensor results in a ~$300 pointgrey camera (not including a lens, which is needed either way).

It could be made a LOT more inexpensive by actually designing the hardware like they implied.

I had it done in Japan, and instead of giving you Valium they have a young female nurse hold your hands :)

The actual procedure was interesting, but I was nervous about accidentally moving my eye to look at the interesting pattern of flashes (although I know it compensates for movement).

My vision was amaaazing for about a week, but then I started to get really dry eyes.
Now 3 years later my vision is apparently good in focus, but it is usually blurry because my eyes are so dry.
Drops only help for about 5sec.

So it is nice to be able to work etc without glasses/contacts, but at night my vision is terribly blurry unless I can keep my eyes moist.

Make sure you don't have any possible issue with dry eyes before you consider LASIK!

If there was no risk of becoming homeless and starving, people would have a lot more choice in the matter...

You would think that, but actually there was a study where the patents were TOLD that it was a placebo (and explained what a placebo is) and it still worked (!). I saw it in a documentary on youtube a week or so ago but can't find it now.

Basically, brains are wierd.

Interesting to know that 1-3% are like me.
I will clarify this for you.

I have zero interest in music. I have never bought (or pirated) a CD or mp3 in my life.
Why people are so obsessed with music I can't understand at all.
It's like how some people looove stamp collecting, I don't understand that obsession either.

It's not a DISlike of music, it's just no interest.
Sure some music has a good beat, or a catchy tune, and I won't complain if someone plays music, but I would never actually choose to play music myself.

Besides this I am pretty much the same as everyone else, I'm not autistic or anything.
I'm an engineer, with friends and a girlfriend, hobbies and a good job.
Music just isn't any more interesting to me than bird noises etc.

I use the stairs when going up to my office in the morning and at lunch.
If there are people there, I do my usual 2 steps at a time, fast pace but not enough to make people look at me funny.
If there's nobody around, I run up as fast as possible, then recover for a min at the top.

At first I couldn't make it all the way running, but I can get up the 6 floors in ~24 seconds now and can breathe normally enough after that people in the office don't notice. It's not that much, but better than nothing.

That reminds me of something interesting I noticed - in "western" countries the emoticons are focussed on the mouth, :) :( :p etc
But in Japan, they are mainly about the eyes, like ^_^ (others mangled by slashdot)

What a ridiculously disproportionate penalty, I thought only the US was that screwed up.
I blame Sony.

I'm living in Japan, so lately I have been renting a "seedbox" in the Netherlands for $15/month.
I can download whatever I want to through the web interface, then copy it via sftp.
I'm sure solutions like this will start becoming a lot more common soon.

This guy reacted 300ms later than the others and he blames it on the speed of sound?
300ms at 340m/s is 102m, there's no way he was that far away from the other athletes.