Wikipedia maintains their no-ad policy on the ground of preventing potential "conflicting interest", yet I don't see how a small ad word buyer can have more influence than a donor cited in TFA. It's more of an ideological reason than anything else, very much like their debate of adopting mp4 video format.

can't wait to see blue logo-ed battery stations around the country.

And eBay, Google may well be investors of that company.

direct energy shots down a mosquito. "The idea behind the "Death Star" laser is that it could be used to control mosquito populations in developing countries in hopes of reducing the number of deaths due to malaria, a disease frequently carried by the flying insects. The device was shown off during the TED 2010 conference and does in fact appear to be capable of tracking and killing mosquitoes. Oh, and it was built out of parts found on eBay." http://gizmodo.com/5470148/this-is-a-mosquito-getting-killed-by-a-laser?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

It appears that they are using a Canon EF or EF-s mount, but Canon is missing in the list of sponsors (Nokia, Adobe Systems, Kodak, and Hewlett-Packard). So they either reverse-engined the communication protocle between the lens and the camera, or they just skip that part all together. Either way, it's not a completely open source camera unless lens manufacturers open up their mount designs.

Because it's winter in Northern Hemisphere?