elmer

"it's sold 3 million iPads worldwide since the US launch date, which is a pretty impressive sales rate"

Is it? Relative to what? I'm just saying, 3 million's a large number, I guess, but compared to what? We're totally lost here in comparative success terms. Yeah, they've no doubt made a lot of money, but in sales terms what does this even mean? Compared to a mobile phone I guess it's really good. Or even a single line of PCs perhaps. But even in consumer electronics terms the Nintendo DS for instance posts sales of this kind of order, and it's neither got media buzz, nor the launch momentum, nor the technological prowess around it. And it certainly doesn't get widely publicised sales celebrations on a monthly or 'millionly' basis. Nor did it. It's not oranges and oranges (refraining from puns here), but all I'm saying is it's a bit of an arbitrary announcement.

@Armdnrdy

They're likely to surpass it promptly either way. Nintendo's been hitting 20+ million DS units each year like clockwork. This last year was actually a record for them, moving a smidge under 30 million. Meanwhile the PS2 moved

@Kevin6432
Except of course not only is perpetual motion possible, but perpetual motion is unavoidable. Everything in the universe is in continuous motion, and the all permeating fundamental forces, even if weak over large distances ensure that everything is kept in motion (not to mention all that quantum foam and the problems with actually being certain about motion). In fact the impossibility of building perfect barriers to the forces is the reason all energy eventually leaks out of a 'perpetual motion machine' - in effect 'perpetual motion machines' of the sort we imagine because everything is in perpetual motion. Sure as the universe expands all the energy should be getting spread out and cooler, and all the order of that energy should be continuously degenerating towards an average entropic milieu of meh, allowing less and less useful work to be done, but that's another bedtime story. The moral is the universe is the unending and frustrating perpetual motion machine of doom.

Seriously, I've Myvu head mounted displays cost less - that's the full 3d system right there!

@BMills

If they pull a profit on every console sold it probably is! When the PS3 launched they needed an attatch rate of about 25 to break even on a unit. As a matter of consequence, I thouroughly recommend House of the Dead: Overkill if that wasn't one of you four (and it probably isn't) :p Not safe for kids mind you.

@klinquist

More likely the microwaves are somewhat resolubilising the amyloid formations. Perhaps the energy from the microwaves is causing thermal disruption of fibrils at a global scale (but obviously not enough to cook your brain). Perhaps they're speciifically interacting with the constituant ploypeptides, causing them to refold on a local scale. Perhaps the microwaves have a similar frequncy to the natural resonance of the amyloid fibril structures and thus they accumulate more energy than ordinary tissue. It's certainly intruiging.

@ DisplaysRus
Ta very much. On a parallel note, do you happen to know if there exists such an 'analogue' varient for DLPs? Something able to bend the mirrors to arbitrary angles rather than juat on or off the lens? I figure if I got a knowledgable guy on the line, I gotta ask everything!

@R E and others

I have some technical questions to pose to whomever.

1. What happens to non-reflected ambient photons? I suppose they pass straight through the device ala an etalon, else they're absorbed by the lower conductive plate. Either way, doesn't this mean one could adapt this into a solar panel, accumulating energy from all the ambient light that isn't being used to display? A combined display/solar panel would be a great boon no?

2. How does/does this device vary reflected light intensity? It appears the device can only control the reflected colour and not the rate of photons being reflected. How would one then achieve greyscales? Would one be forced to use dithering? In which case would we have to sacrifice resolution for intensity precision? Else would it be achieved by rapid pixel switching ala DLPs? Wouldn't that put a great strain on power usage?

3. Can this reasonably be used to produce colour samples as a continuum of wavelengths for a truer human response (presumably again at the expense of resolution) or will each imod device be fixed to a single (or small set of) predefined constructive wavelength(s)?

I'm actually guessing he presided over the biggest game failure of the generation, nay, biggest single game failure of all time. Too Human's development budget (by their own documentation) was costed at $80 million BEFORE its last major delay and 'Epic' lawsuit (not sure how that turned out). That would already place it as one of the most expensive games of all time. Vgchartz - frankly the only datasource available - has it selling < 650,000 copies worldwide. Even at an unthinkable profitability of $60 per copy and rounding up to 700,000, that would be an absolute minimum of a $38,000,000.00 (extra 00'z for effect) loss. That's above the top end for the total spending on most high profile HD games. We can thank daddy warbucks (Microsoft) for the moneyhatting.

@Mr Khan

It's more than effort.

As Reggie suggests, you need some combination of effort and marketing, or effort and franchise power, or a combination of all three on Wii.

But then that goes for all systems. I have no clue why 3rd parties expect to sell when providing all three components on HD systems, but whine when they fail to sell with none on the Wii. And even then, the 'failures' are contestable when looking at up to date numbers (not first week sales - using the same metric to compare ODST and Bloom Blox should obviously be retarded!), statistically insignificant compared to sales failures on HD plats, and financially irrelevant when they cost $5million to make.