I share your disinclination to get too excited about any widget that has only been made in an academic lab, but super-capacitors aren't theoretical or non-commercial. Look, you can buy 'em on Digikey: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=131084&k=supercapacitor. Now the magic nano-particle ink on the other hand... (I believe they can make it, but cost effectively?).

Well of course this could (and eventually probably will happen), but there's nowhere absolutely safe for a physical copy either. Best to have at least one of each in my opinion. The odds of your house getting broken into or catching on fire or your backup HD just plain dying - not an everyday event but certainly well within the realm of reasonable threat. The odds of Flickr being shut down without notice or mistakenly deleting your account - also possible. The odds of both of those happening the same week? Comfortably low, IMHO.

The MSDS for ethanol says it has a "mild, pleasant" odor. What is your "reputable reference" for claiming that it is odorless?

I agree that copyright laws in the US are screwed up and need fix'n, but this is still a mis-aimed argument, Amazon offers War & Peace for free in their store - all nice and formatted for Kindle.

Yeeeaaah, that's kinda what I was talking about. Congrats though, now I just figure you're not that great with people in general, most men I know are more interesting than you portray them too.

Given that your reaction to an unrelated article is a misogynistic 'joke,' the difficulties in your relations with women might not be on their end.

That *is* what I use torrents for, I doubt I'm the only one.

Actually, TFA was studying the effectiveness of OTC cough medications on relieving the *symptom* (i.e. coughing), and found that none of them did better than a placebo at making the patients cough less. So might as well stick with the hot water with lemon and honey (and preferably rum) - tastes better and works just as well.

Maybe because the psychological benefits extend beyond accompanying the dog twice daily to the toilet? It is actually possible to spend time with the dog indoors as well. And having a dog-walking robot would enable people like me to actually get to experience some of those benefits. I won't even consider having a dog now, since it would be stuck inside the house alone for 9-10 hours a day, but if there were a robot to take it for walks and keep it company, it might be a possibility. (I figure that if toddlers see robots as peers, dogs will probably be ok with them too...)