HyperHacker

@(Unverified) Heck, if I could find the parts, I could buy a $2 IR LED and ~$5-10 parallel male-female cable, literally stick the LED in the female end of the cable, plug it into any computer, and it'd take all of 20 minutes tops to hack together a program to pulse the LED in response to signals over a network and another to transmit said signals from an iPhone. I've been meaning to do that for a while now.

Any professional design these days would want to use USB instead of parallel, since modern computers actually have USB, but that's not going to raise the cost of hardware from $12 to $188.

Even for the advantage that this thing doesn't need a computer, I can't justify the price. A Game Boy Color, which I bought for a buck recently, with a maybe $20-40 wireless receiver could do this job very well.

That's so enemies can't see it from... below... when flying upside-down? O.o

Atomic as in Atomic Purple Game Boy Color? Man, I loved that.

Haven't cars had this for several years now?

Yes you are.

They talk as if they're competing to see who can fit the most buzzwords in a sentence.

It's not just concept cars. Pretty much any concept technology. Where's my 200ghz CPU, nonvolatile RAM, cell phone that projects a keypad onto my hand, etc that were shown off years ago?

Agree strongly with #6. As for the rest, you seem to think that Sony knows or cares about making a decent media player. PSP was advertised as music and video on the go, and we all saw how great that turned out.

"However, game consoles should be designed to shrug off marathon sessions and just keep on spewing polygons, something that the first revisions of Microsoft's baby obviously couldn't manage."

Why back in my day, before we even HAD polygons, I'd leave my SNES on for days until I could reach a save point. It never gave me a single problem until my brother spilled something on it. Not even N64 or PSX, let alone anything newer, has been so reliable. (Damn N64 cartridge slots get so loose they're as bad as NES after a few years.)

360: shitty hardware
Wii: shitty software (not the games, but the OS and etc that *should* be running under them.)
With one you get failures. With the other you get no possibility for future expansion because the software is designed poorly. Pick your poison.
I won't even get into PS3.