Q's workshop

Talking with a friend about stuff he saw in a major R&D lab with one of the tech companies ten years ago - cool stuff like a complete computer, soft enough to roll into a little bundle. Still not out, for whatever reason - probably the problems with manufacturing technology - they didn't find a way to mass-produce it at a profit.

It's like a child's dream of pirate's treasure - fabulous shinies, locked chests, still buried.

As Stravinsky allegedly said, "Nothing fails like success." The stuff that never makes it beyond prototype reaminsmore intriguing than the things that ultimately get only the easy indifference breed by familiarity.