In nearly a century, we went from first powered flight on Earth to first powered flight on another Planet. Permit yourselves a moment of joy please, among the torrent of the adversity we call Life.

You might wanna check out the The Quantum Thief and its sequels. It covers everything you just mentioned and much more...

That's linguistic ownage.

I think the new wave of Windows 7 and Android tablets will show that in short order

Why do you think companies are investing into tablets all of a sudden after long years of indifference? Here is a hint, it has to do with a company who singlehandedly changed the smartphone paradigm for the betterment of everyone and introduced a new wave of healthy competition.

everyone who actually wanted a real tablet computer

No one cared about tablets before iPad. While I hate the heavy handed control Apple has over iPad and won't be buying one, I WILL buy a comparable tablet with Android that has a competent multi-touch interface.

They later commented that that was a mistake and matte screens will be the way to go.

THis paper is striking because it again underlines that evolution occurs by chance (genetic drift) in many cases and humanity is on the verge of gripping evolution from the horns. Here is a perfectly fine gene, inactivated by a premature termination codon mutation that occurred after human lineage diverged from the lineage we share with orangutans, lesser apes, and old world monkeys. Why? because there was no significant selective pressure against it and probably trough some chance event (think founder effect) we as a species lost this gene. Now trough paleogenetics we awaken a 7 million old gene from pseudogene hell! It makes me excited for my chosen profession again (PhD is hard and you need all the motivation you can get)

It has the option to run on a silent (don't know how silent) jet fuel powered generator for 8 hours a day for three days. That sounds to me like a workable solution for the (hypothetical) heavy weapons guy in assault squads in the field.

Induced pluripotent cells (which they generated here) are actually shown to be able to differentiate into many many cell types. Indeed the next step is to test their properties in more detail but literature suggests it will work with a high probability. Here directly from wikipedia:

Pluripotency: iPSCs were capable of differentiation in a fashion similar to ESCs into fully differentiated tissues.

        * Neural Differentiation: iPSCs were differentiated into neurons, expressing βIII-tubulin, tyrosine hydroxylase, AADC, DAT, ChAT, LMX1B, and MAP2. The presence of catecholamine-associated enzymes may indicate that iPSCs, like hESCs, may be differentiable into dopaminergic neurons. Stem cell-associated genes were downregulated after differentiation.
        * Cardiac Differentiation: iPSCs were differentiated into cardiomyocytes that spontaneously began beating. Cardiomyocytes expressed TnTc, MEF2C, MYL2A, MYHCβ, and NKX2.5. Stem cell-associated genes were downregulated after differentiation.
        * Teratoma Formation: iPSCs injected into immunodeficient mice spontaneously formed teratomas after nine weeks. Teratomas are tumors of multiple lineages containing tissue derived from the three germ layers endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm; this is unlike other tumors, which typically are of only one cell type. Teratoma formation is a landmark test for pluripotency.
        * Embryoid Body: hESCs in culture spontaneously form ball-like embryo-like structures termed "embryoid bodies", which consist of a core of mitotically active and differentiating hESCs and a periphery of fully differentiated cells from all three germ layers. iPSCs also form embryoid bodies and have peripheral differentiated cells.
        * Blastocyst Injection: hESCs naturally reside within the inner cell mass (embryoblast) of blastocysts, and in the embryoblast, differentiate into the embryo while the blastocyst's shell (trophoblast) differentiates into extraembryonic tissues. The hollow trophoblast is unable to form a living embryo, and thus it is necessary for the embryonic stem cells within the embryoblast to differentiate and form the embryo. iPSCs were injected by micropipette into a trophoblast, and the blastocyst was transferred to recipient females. Chimeric living mouse pups were created: mice with iPSC derivatives incorporated all across their bodies with 10%-90& chimerism.

Nod32 also caught it with
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You didn't even RTFA. Here I past the relevant passage:

FROM ROAD TO AIR IN THE SKYCAR

The driver unpacks the parafoil wing from the boot and manually deploys it from the rear of the car. He switches the transmission from road mode, which drives the wheels, to flight mode, which powers the rear fan

The fan's thrust pushes the car forward, providing lift for the wing as the car reaches 35mph - takeoff speed. Once airborne, pedals in the footwell steer the Skycar by pulling cables that change the wing's shape

The Skycar has a flying range of about 180 miles. If the wing is damaged or collapses, the pilot can fire a roof-mounted emergency parachute that allows the car to float safely back to earth