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This is an interesting post but I would suggest that comments about suicide in general are on a different discussion post. When talking about a specific individual compassion and respect is called for.

The guy seems like a quantum fanboy who does not understand what he is talking about. Isn't data management separate theory from the hardware - ie: using smaller objects to make computers does not change the management of the data.

It could be a photo but the keypad is fake. The image shows too much smooth colour distribution to be an unmodified photo.

No sane product designer would propose a keypad execution like this anyway. There is a massive ergonomic difference between thumb typing and pressing with the tips of extended fingers - put your fingertips on the keypad of your phone with your hand stretched out to see what I mean.

I sort of agree with you, but I would only up vote to show that the topic / comment was interesting, even if I did not agree with it . Up/down voting because i agree or disagree is arrogant. If it makes people feel better, bully for them. The danger is that a group of people will upvote a perspective and alienate alternative points of view from a thread. This creates a narrow minded culture and prevents interesting discussions. Ideally there is no point posing to a thread you agree with if you have no content to add.

I agree. Though you only need one or two "difficult" children in a class for them to take 60% of a teachers time. The pigeon-holing of children in categories is also irksome. I never met an "all-round" genius, and currently schools are not set up to perform to strength. There is no rule saying that a child cannot be in grade five maths and grade two reading at the same time. University is set up with more flexibility, why not school?

I guess my point was more along the lines that "gifted" is a very undefined quantity and in my experience people who excel at class work are average in life. Also that given our education system, the best and brightest do not become teachers, thus any sort of "gifted" program is going to be for muppets by muppets. Given it is pretty much that already the news article has nothing to offer.

Leaving aside whatever "gifted" means, why bring additional challenges to people who are ahead of the curriculum? It frees them up to explore being people. Having the freedom to create your own challenges is much more important than some misguided attempt by control freaks to monopolize your time.

Sorry, don't follow why you cannot set up a bank account in your (original) company name. Easy to do with your company registration documents.

For the size you are proposing, anything other than a few resistors is out of the question. Depending on the concept though, I have seen prototypes made on watch PCBs if they can work using an existing electronic design. The trade-off is as follows - a factory/development house can make the prototype for you IF you order the final product through them in sufficient quantities. If not - custom IC/PCB design plus casing for 100 units will cost around 50 000 USD (again - this really depends on complexity and function) And that is the china price. I live there. I do this for a living. Best place to feel your way is the Hong Kong Trade Development Council or the Productivity council. I mention these so that you can get some perspective. http://www.hkpc.org/html/eng/common/index.jsp

It is a sad sad state of product design that the people who spent so much time designing and making it never rode a bicycle.

If they had they would know that even getting on this contraption would scare the daylights out of a seasoned cyclist(like me).

Not to mention that it is everyone's dream to look like an idiot at speed.