This week saw the first results of a project, costing that tidysum, which will allow astronomers to examine the universe to their hearts' content, regardless of telescope administrators and cloudy skies.
For a tidysum and some untidiness, Kinect enables the kind of motion-sensing gameplay that has become the Wii's hallmark without having to strap the controller to various limbs (as with EA Active for Wii).
Many of the original holders of the bonds, weary of waiting for a deal, have sold them to others for as little as 12 cents on the dollar, so the purchasers of these bonds stand to make a tidysum.