I think you are confusing the B206 with the B208. The B206 has been available in Sweden for some time now, yes. The B206 only has a single core Atom CPU, but with HT so it shows up as two logical cores in Windows taskmanager etc. I have had one at home mounted behind the TV for quite some time now. I don't think the keyboard and mice is Bluetooth either, but they do have good range.

The shadows in the image is comming from the sun, not the light bulb. Also, there is clearly a electrical wire going down from the turbine, between his arms and down behinds his trousers.

By testing it for example. If you try to call a skype contact it will call a regular local phone number.

The missing pixels on some of the numbers comes from the fact that it's not really a dot matrix display but a regular 7 segment display with the segments made to look like dot matrix. Just like many cheap car stereos and similar. Either that or the designer actually emulated a 7 segment display for some strange reason, but I doubt that since the "N" has triangular "dots".

@Paul Reibe

What system are you thinking about here? From what I can find GSM actually preceded CDMA with a few years if you are talking about 2G networks. If you are talking about 1G networks NMT preceded AMPS by two years. 0G networks are a bit scattered over the early timeline but are hard to compare since some of them were very limited in almost all respects.

The soldering could be for disabling some lock to allow writing to some low level boot loader. Note that the solder points are quite small, so he didn't do that bad of a job, it simply looks really bad through a magnifier glass.

However, I don't see how this could prove anything at all. It's not very hard to create a program that gives you full screen access and can emulate the look and feel of Ubuntu showed in the video...

The soldering could be for disabling some lock to allow writing to some low level boot loader. Note that the solder points are quite small, so he didn't do that bad of a job, it simply looks really bad through a magnifier glass.

However, I don't see how this could prove anything at all. It's not very hard to create a program that gives you full screen access and can emulate the look and feel of Ubuntu showed in the video...

"while the widescreen G918W1 (pictured after the jump) ups the resolution to 1,440 x 900"

Actually 1440x900 has close to 15 thousand fewer pixels than 1280x1024.

"We'll admit, we certainly didn't realize that home crafted, high-powered staplers were becoming all the rage"

It hasn't, a quote from The Register article:

"This increase likely corresponds to an increase in availability during the 1990s of inexpensive pneumatic nail guns and air compressors in home hardware stores."

"In a rover that can do 100KPH, I sure would want dual power sources. In an hour you are probably out of walking distance before your air runs out if something happens to one power source or another"

1. The article makes no mention of someone sitting on the rover.
2. 100KPH is exactly one thousand times faster than this rover. ;-)