I’ve seen these commercials advertising this new GPS service offered by certain wireless providers where you and your friends will always know where each other is. All the people on the commercials sound like stoners or zombies. They just keep pushing buttons on their phones going, “I know where you’re at.” “Oh yeah? Well I …
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Just What We Need. Something Else To Distract People While They Drive
Thanks to a new service called Horntones, you, yes you, can have the most annoying car on the road, at least until somebody else with the same idea and complete lack of respect for money as you have comes riding through town. For a mere $300, you can get your hands on the FX550, a …
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The Bad Idea Graveyard Is Expanding
Let’s visit the graveyard of bad ideas again. If you look to your left, you’ll see the don’t touch me cell phone program, and…oh! What have we here? There’s a new resident! Strangely enough, its creators are also from Japan. It is the portable zebra Crossing crosswalk mat. I’m laughing too hard to speak. So …
Shall We Head To The Graveyard Of Bad Ideas?
I need somebody to explain thisAnti-Groping Applithing to me, because I’m just not getting it. Snip from the article, which is trying but failing: The application flashes increasingly threatening messages in bold print on the phone’s screen to show to the offender: “Excuse me, did you just grope me?” “Groping is a crime,” and finally, …
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Would You Go For A Mygo?
As I write this, I can hear my mother talking in my head. “Don’t be so hard on them. Be grateful they’re even trying something. Whatever comes out of this will be good.” Ah hell. I’m writing this anyway. Sebastian Ritzler of the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Germany has come up with …
Talking about Updating Talks
Ok, I’m about to geek out, so hope I don’t bore too many. Remember back when I said I got a new phone? Well, it came time to update the part that makes it talk, so I was going to figure out how. It was a bit tricky, so I figured I’d save some people …
A Crappy Invention
Wow. Here’s a new one. I just got emailed a link to the weirdest USB thingamabob I’ve ever heard of. And, you can’t just buy this little gizmo, you have to build it yourself! So what are you building? That would be, drum-roll please, a USB tird! Tird? Yup, tird. Apparently if you connect enough …
There’s A Market For More Than One Of These Things?
Remember that goofy USB scented oil burner? Don’t ask me how or why, but I guess the idea must have taken off, because another company is now competing with the original.
Will You Marry Me? For Yes, Press 1. For No, Press 2.
Here’s one for the other side of the coin. Now there’s a ring box with built-in LCD screen. So, if you’re an especially lazy prick, you can pre-record your wedding proposal, and let the fucking box do it for you. Hopefully, for the sake of the girl, there’s a nice sparkling rock in there so …
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Toronto Adventures
Last Thursday, there was a free workshop at the CNIB in Toronto about human rights, disabilities and the workplace. I figured I’m sure there was something I could learn, so off I went. It was a pretty good trip, full of adventures, so I thought I’d write about them. Hope it won’t be too boring. …
