They should charge more for it…

@asvjerry 

I'd like to see a non-contact version of arm with a sorta stylus that reads the tracing with the accuracy of a disc drive

Hard drives like those found in personal computers do indeed have a read-write head that flies aerodynamically above the disk surface, kept there by the airflow as the disk spins.  Would need to replace the magnetic field sensor with two distance sensors.  I feel an R & D grant application coming on.

As an aside, in counries like Australia venture capital is like unobtanium so governments step in to fill the financing void!

@pindac ....but AI wants to be free!
...since it's already expensive anyway....using us as Beta's to achieve it's goals....

Find the TT on the floor, tugged off the stand by the tethered drone, buzzing around like a po'd wasp....  "See! Lookit the scar that lil' sob left me...."

@lewm , @richardbrand ...Cell implants 'sound' cool, but I defy...
"Runs off your body heat!  Automatic updates!  Always 'in touch'!

That last part is the issue in the rumours....
Don't Forget To Pay Your Bill Online Promptly....I'm not DOS'ing you.

Wake up where you've never been, surrounded by others just as clueless as you, doing Something in Some Fashion to an object you don't recognise the purpose of.
Whatever you're doing, it's done very well very fast as you feel Great, even though you don't know how you know what you're doing....

When you're done, you lapse into gray....awakening to the Task in the next 'morning' since all you know now is artificial lighting....

Life as a Cellzombie isn't bleak.
It's just Endless.....

...and you still have to pay the bill....

Worse than a college loan on a PhD.

...been working on funding that.....

Any government subsidies of late here benefit the Orange Nightmare to the exclusion of any thing or potential step forward in or for others.
Since Twitwit only likes 'music' that allows pumping his hands in a suspect fashion and can be co-opted without any royalty payments to the set-upon 'serf sets' that grovel under his spikey boots....that keeep walkin'.... ( Begging pardon, Nancy S.).

Thinking of a remix of Gabriels' "Shock the Monkey".....
" Doncha' know you gotta,
Snuff the Orangutan...."

First, I wonder if I would hear the difference between the $302K turntable and my VPI Signature 21 at less than 1/30th the price. Second, I'm pretty sure that it's a kind of retailing law that the higher the retail price, the higher the margin. On a $3K turntable, perhaps 30 or 40% is profit. On a $320K turntable, over 50% could be profit since obviously money is not a consideration.