I know Doritos have been that way for a while. I bought one of those sampler cereal packs recently (you know, it has trial sizes of Frosted Flakes, Honey Smacks, Fruit Loops, etc) and noticed it was like eating packing foam. Again, no density. So that's what prompted me to write a post.

And yes, while products are sold by weight and not by volume, I'm certainly sure that the boxes weren't made bigger to accommodate the same weight that the original, more denser cereals afforded. So there for the product is lighter, thus saving on shipping. That was more the point I was trying to make.

And since I'm on a rant about food they don't make the same way anymore (and products they don't make anymore altogether), I also want to say I sure do miss Lemon Coolers. They were made by Sunshine Biscuit company and were similar to a lemon Nilla wafer, though thicker, and were coated in a lemony powdered sugar. Those too have gone the way of the Dodo. The closes thing I've found to them are sold in Target stores, called Lemon Straws. Oh well...

Its not about effort, its about getting rid of wires. Also about getting rid of batteries which genuinely do cause quite a mess and problem. It wouldn't necessarily call for a complete revamping of the electro-infrastructure of the earth either. As per the demonstration you would still need to plug *something* in (at least for now) and then all your devices that you actually use you no longer have to worry about keeping charged all the time as well as no longer having to worry about (power) cables all over the place.

All in all an incredible tech. with quite a number of applications. I could definitely see future homes being built with one of those WiTricity transformers built into its own designated space in the house somewhere. Wouldn't even need to be in the open, just stick it in the wall or floor with a section of wall/floor over it you can remove if something breaks. *That* would be the main concern of course, is making sure it's just as reliable over the long term use as current power availability.

Oh and considering its a magnetic field, suppose its a good thing CRT's are going the way o' the dodo, no?

hah, you're the 2nd person to ask me that... actually it's one of these guys.

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^Is that Zappa?

Wonderful talk. I'm adding it to the TEDtalk playlist, as it is presented by one of their partners, and released as such. If anyone wants to dupeof that video's votes over here, my dupe lives at http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-My-quest-for-the-dodo-bird

Nope! It's been done:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird
AND HERE:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Adam-Savage-on-the-Art-of-Extreme-Obsession

You've been Duped!

Ok, I found out why everyone is confused.

THE ORIGINAL of this was submitted by arvana 2 months 3 weeks ago
http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-is-OBSESSED-with-dodo-birds-the-maltese-falcon?noredirect

Arvana then INCORRECTLY called
dupeof= http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird

Either that, or Zifnab video went dead and he pulled a bait-and-switch and put up a SIMILAR video.

So, yes folks, you are not crazy.. this is kind of a dupe.

It's a different venue, same speech. It's 18:00 onwards in the dodo video.

No time to browse thru at the moment but is this a dupeof: http://www.videosift.com/video/Adam-Savage-Fascination-with-the-Dodo-Bird ?

The Thursday Next book series has a living dodo named Pickwick. He waddles randomly in and out of various storylines making soft "plock plock" noises a lot. My vote's for Pickwick.

Thought of it as Mr. Darwin at first, which sounded kind of wierd, but just Darwin the DoDo does sound kind of nice.

This is a fantastic album and group, one of my favorite finds from the last year. Upvote for the Dodos anyday.

fleet foxes
kings of convenience
the dodos
feist
the weakerthans
architecture in helsinki
broken social scene
husky rescue
iron and wine
the crayon fields

manumana ... do do dodo...

Manumana do dodo do

manumana do do dodo

.... manumana...

I thought this room was booked for the Atheists Among us Class? Oh well.

manumana do dododo

*slams door*

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This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by arvana.