There aren't many prototypes in any field of technology that end up looking let alone acting much like the eventual product.
In the car industry "mules" (old cars running new technology in disguise) or plain out camouflaged vehicles are regularly captured out and about in the real world.
Sometimes these exposes end up killing the exposed device or functionality. No matter how you look at it the likelihood of useful predictions being made from such events is pretty slim.
I'm not quite sure why we are bombarded with useless information about future gadgets that will be transformed before we ever see them or fail to materialize at all.
That is a lie, I know why we get bombarded with this information. It is because the promise of the future and shiny things (there I go again) is much more alluring than the daily rubbish that our technology leaves us scurrying through.
Every now and then there's a nice story about how some data cabling company users rodents to lay cables through wall cavities and other tight spaces. So that is relevant to the whole ratty theme I started.
Isn't the guy pictured here cute? Don't ask me why he has a saxophone. Perhaps he's in a band.
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