"These (or something as close as to be almost identical) have been around for years. I took a whiz in one just this weekend."

"OK, I'm being obtuse here probably but I just don't get this. I used to use tracing paper as a way of copying a drawing then using the tracing to transfer that to a second sheet, where I could alter it etc. These days I use a light box for the same reason - I or my students can use plain paper + lightbox as easily as I would once have used tracing paper. I don't see how this product works at all - there doesn't seem to be a method of transferring the traced image to a new sheet, but I assume the tracing isn't intended to be the final and permanent medium? Maybe it's just my dinosaur thinking, or perhaps it's more the norm in, say, universities, design studios etc for artwork/design work to be exclusively digital. If so then I sort of get it - trace, amend, scan, erase, repeat.. I'm a teacher (K-12 equivalent) and my students still sketch on paper, with CAD for dimensioned, 'blueprint' drawings later. I'm not so old that I'm completely devoid of digital skills, but I am old enough to still prefer to work with and on physical media..."

"Seems to me, for humanoid bots to interact with humans there will need to be wholesale changes to H&S legislation too. Visit anywhere where industrial robots work (oranges and lemons, I know, but a not-totally-invalid comparison) and you're kept outside a cage, covered in hi-vis and wearing a hard hat. So now suddenly we'll be allowed within touching distance of similarly articulated and still pretty powerful machinery with all the gappy, finger-trappy  risks as well as software 'episodes' I can imagine happening inevitably, as with any computer system. Reporting always focuses on the hardware and their ever-closer resemblance to the human form, but there's going to have to be a huge swath of ancillary 'soft' change to enable close-quarter interaction between hardware and wetware, surely?"

"Wasn't Dick Dastardly's car in Wacky Races the 00? Coincidence - or not?"

"A cursory search for 'volume level icon' seems to favour quiet-loud L-R over R-L..."

"Interesting, - on the left and + on the right makes perfect sense to me; I intuitively feel that volume goes from quiet to louder left to right, as with the L-R direction we read. Maybe I'm the one out of step here! The volume buttons on my tablet are laid out as you suggest, and they confuse me every time."

"Never seen it done with a tin can (I hope they risk-assessed those sharp edges!), but have folded a paper one since I was v young: https://www.instructables.com/Circular-Paper-Airplane/"

"I'm baffled as to why this christmas-cracker junk is being given space here. It's not new, well-made, well-designed; is it an example of anti-design?"

"While I appreciate his contributions to advances in tent manufacture etc, I call this one a miss. It's aesthetically unappealing (ymmv), and unless you pony up the extra 175 clams for the fly sheet, would you feel secure in this in windy weather? I'm out."

"Anyone care to enlighten me as to why being square would speed up boiling? I can't work that out at all. I mean, I quite like the thing in itself, but that sounds a bit like snake oil sales pitch to me..."

"Not even a mention of nurses' watches, which have been around for decades?They go for function over form, but IMHO are better than the dreadful faux-rugged aesthetic shown here."

"These are crazy. Wasteful, unnecessary, ostentatious, gimmicky and more. And the 15-year-old inside me is screaming "I want one!" at the top of his lungs. Clearly I'm never getting the jetpack I was promised the 21st century would bring me, but this would take the sting out of that loss."