You might recall Apple catching some hell at the end of last year when it came out that the company was intentionally slowing down some older iPhones in order to protect their batteries. Since then, there have been lawsuits, apologies and a promise that come the next update to iOS 11, you can take the …
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FoldiMate: The Overpriced, Half-assed Laundry Helper You’ve Been Waiting For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVrLYY4jZg Normally I would start off a post like this by wondering aloud just who is the target market for our friend FoldiMate here, but you know what? Not today. There’s no need. I know exactly who this is aimed at. Idiots. Idiots with way too much money and nothing to do with it. Seriously, …
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I Don’t Know About That!
A little while ago, I wondered if my grandma could benefit from one of those Amazon Echo things. I thought maybe it could call people since she says she can’t see the numbers on the phone and doesn’t know how to do it another way, check the weather, read the news, play music, etc. But …
And There I Was, Switching Tapes Like An Idiot Every Time I wanted To Hear Something Different
I’m sure at some point, whether it held 3 or 5 or 25, almost all of us owned some sort of CD changer. And when I was young I remember my mom having a record player that could hold something like three or 4 at a time. But until today, I don’t remember ever having …
Black Or White, The Floppotron Edition
I don’t seem to have much to say today, so how about we watch the Floppotron try its hand at Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” while I go back to doing stuff that most of you will never notice unless I don’t do it one day? That was fun.
Hours Of Fun In Emergency Rooms?
Here’s Gill to talk some questionable toys. As for memories of unsafe things I did as a kid, I’m not even sure where to start. I grew up when we still had tire swings and climbables with gravel underneath them, so the list is fairly long. From flammable train sets to rebounder trampolines I’m counting …
Timeless: A Potential New App To Help People With Dementia
I saw this article the other day, and it made me so happy. Emma Yang is going to do amazing things with her skills, of that I am sure. Maybe she could unite with Shubham Banerjee and do some amazing things. She saw her grandmother struggling with the effects of Alzheimer’s, and at 14, built …
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A Demonstration Of The Voder, The World’s First Speech Synthesizer
Long ago, Carin put up audio of a history of different speech synthesizers meant to show how the technology has evolved through the years. Included in that demonstration was the Voder, a device first shown by Bell Labs in 1939. What you heard back then was only a few seconds of it, but because the …
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iSlowne
The other day, Apple confirmed something that anyone that’s used an iPhone for any length of time already suspected. They’re slowing them down on purpose. The older ones, anyhow. The reason, so they say, is to protect degrading batteries in older phones. That’s perfectly sensible and I have no reason to doubt them, but it …
I Don’t Know What These Are, But I’m Going To Take All Of Them And There’s Nothing You Can Do About It
“Hey man, listen up. I’ve got a great idea.” “Ok, I’m all ears.” “So you know how there’s that tech company down on Dela Cruz Avenue?” “Yeah. Roam something. What do they do, anyway?” “I don’t know, but do you want to find out?” “Sure, what the hell. But how?” “Well, how about tonight, you …