Looks fishy to me.

In the pic with the designer/builder, his right hand looks monstrous for his body size. Photoshop job?

Also, I don't see how it could go from the folded configuration to the fully extended configuration without it coming apart into two pieces.

In the folded configuration picture, looks like the hinge point on the frame is the front sprocket. But in the fully extended configuration, there's nothing connected to the front sprocket at all.

In addition, it is coming out of North Vietnam. Sorry, but folks in North Vietnam are literally starving to death...I highly doubt a student was able to source high-tech components like this from nearby suppliers, let alone pay for them or even get them for free. My guess is all the people mentioned in the article that helped him out would be spending most of their time looking for food, not building uber-tech electric vehicles in students' living rooms.

How come Lexicon's site doesn't say one word about these things?

http://www.lexiconpro.com/NewsSplash.aspx

http://www.lexiconpro.com/ProductPortal.aspx

Canon A590 IS.

AA batteries, image stabilization. $115 new. Done.

RTFA

It has nothing to do with waking people up. All the guy did was put the accordion-mechanism on the woofer. It extends out of the cabinet when the bass is "loud" and back into the cabinet when the bass is "quiet". ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'll bet random people in the street can already tell you're a dweeb. No need to spend time and money proving it.

I'd hit that.

This case is what happens when some idiot hands an airbrush to his cousin's friend's little brother and says "make it look cool and we'll sell a bunch out of the basement!"

Yeah, because turning your laptop around so you can't see the screen but everyone else can is the best way to give a presentation. It would be much easier to just turn it back around when you needed to change slides. And then turn it back around to face the other people. And then turn it back around when you needed to change slides. And then turn it back around....

@prfomg

Thank you.

No, his/her argument makes no sense because he/she is forgetting that every content distributor (Apple, Netflix, etc) is free to negotiate their own agreements with the studio. Whether Apple iTunes can do something has no bearing whatsoever on whether Netflix can do it...maybe Apple negotiated an "better" (different) agreement with the studios.

If the studios just made the rules and that was it, you'd have every content provider in the world offering the same exact thing at the same exact price and we all know that isn't what happens.

The studios may make the rules, but the rules are different for everyone EXCEPT the studios.