does that air anywhere stateside?
or can i beg for a youtube clip to be posted later?

Any idea how an average citizen could get their hands on one of these technological marvels?

"Hi, I'm Chris Walters with The Consumerist. Why don't you take a seat... right over there."

@GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: Sure! You can get crumpets at Trader Joe's and tea at your local A&P.

@dohtem: "Who are you here to meet? Do you want to explain why you've brought a six-pack and a bucket of Astro-Glide with you today?"

Any relation to Barbara? Bam! :-)

Is Chris going to talk about the environmental implications of having such ridiculous wastes of resources stuck in magazines? Even reusable ones like this, where the average person will leave it in the garbage after one annoyed viewing?

@bornonbord: What you say is true: I'll take it. I like things like this. I could make an animated name tag instead of LED.

@GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: is there a way to change what these thigies are "saying/doing" or once programed are they stuck?

@GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: I don't think anyone in the Gawker network has ever assumed you were categorized as an "average person".

@bornonbord: What you say is true: i assume the hackabilities (at least for the first versions) are almost limitless.
and i assume that there will (eventually) be a better electronics-recycling program in place

@The Porkchop Express: Where there is a will, there is a way. I doubt they are ROM, as if there was a mistake in the ad, they would never be able to change it. IIRC, when the first "e-ink" display came out, it was hacked within a few weeks.

@GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: Well... considering that the rest of the magazine is basically just ROM, I think thats not a big issue ;)

@G.O.B.: Come on!: The beer was on sale, and I had a coupon for the lube plus it was triple coupon day. I swear! I was being a good consumerist!

Whoa. Where on earth did that logo come from? IS that even a BBC logo? If so it must be from about 1972 or something...!

Oh, and I forgot to add my name to the "how can I watch this, then?" list. I must confess to not having heard of "World News Today" until right now... is that something that only those lucky enough to have BBC World available in their area can see, or might I find it on BBC America? (Yeah, don't even answer that last part, they don't do news on there, just endless rounds of Cash in the Attic/Changing Rooms/Home Front, last time I bothered looking).

Did you know that a crumpet is like an English muffin?

@thesadtomato:

It's not, really. Other than being approximately the same size and shape.

Oh Gods please, Chris. Do a Cockney accent, just like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins did.
For us. Please!

@MsAnthropy: How so? If you examine the recipes for either they are very similar, although I've seen crumpet recipes that do not call for yeast. They're both cooked like pancakes on the griddle. Both holey, and a crumpet is muffin, English in extraction.

@Trai_Dep: Yes! I always thought that accent sounded more like an Australian crackhead than a Cockney street busker.

@Trai_Dep: Err, a "Cockney" accent, that is.
It'll be fun to see their horrified faces as they struggle to maintain a stiff upper lip.

@thesadtomato:

But they're not the same. They're really, really not, no matter what recipes you examine. Crumpets are made of a batter, and are basically thick pancakes that you then toast and cover with butter (drool...), whereas English muffins are made of some kind of sourdough stuff, and are much more breadlike than a crumpet, regardless of the fact that they're cooked on a griddle and have holes in them. They're just not the same. My attempts at explaining may sound bad, but they're based on 30-something years of eating the things, so I just know they're not the same thing! Ask any passing Brit-person - they will (if they live in the US, at any rate) no doubt gnash their teeth and wail at being told, yet again, that a crumpet is the same as an "English" muffin. What IS a bit like an American "English muffin" is... well, an (English, as in "the kind you get in England") muffin - but they're still not quite the same.

Here endeth my rant on crumpets/English muffins/(English) muffins. And apologies for the extreme off-subjectness. But hey, there was mention of crumpets in the article, so...!

@Trai_Dep:

Now that would be fantastic! He should throw some cockney rhyming slang into every sentence, if at all possible. And say "cor, stone the crows!" a lot.

@MsAnthropy:

Sorry - make that "Cor, stone the crows, guv'nor!"

@GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: I said this before in the original post, but I could make big screen TVs for my dollhouse miniatures. That would be so COOL!

@MsAnthropy: With a stovepipe hat, a scarf & coal dust makeup?
Man, if Chris doesn't follow our advice, it's going to be so anticlimactic...

@Trai_Dep: I might say no to the coal dust makeup. Remember Ted Danson.

Ooh, sexeh.

@MsAnthropy: Actually, I always wondered. The crumpets that I've had were woefully dry, chunky and not very delicious. Bad crumpet cooks or are they supposed to taste like that?
Whereas English muffins have a springyness to them. Actually almost every bread product I've had I can find some appeal. But crumpets seemed like something you'd feed Very Bad Children to let them know that they've been very bad.
So, are they *supposed* to taste like that?

@Trai_Dep: Yeah, or he could tell them he has supercalifragilistic-expialidocious.

It's a disease of the liver!

And what commercials precede Chris's interview? Sham Wow, HyroxyCut, and then a prescription drug ad. hehe

BBC America is on Directv. And for some reason, they like to put up extra text on the screen telling us not only what we are watching, but a permanent ad for an upcoming show or episode of whatever we're watching. Of course, their logo is all over the screen too. Makes it impossible to watch whatever they're showing.