Remember when I wrote about Hitchbot? Remember how I was afraid he wasn’t going to make it? It looks like he made it! I saw pictures that said he was there, followed by tweets that said he wasn’t quite there yet. But at any rate, if he’s not there, he’s super close! I have to …
Category Archives: gadgets
Can You Drain Me Now?
A lot of us are pretty attached to our iPhones, but it is my sincere hope that most of us understand that no matter how important they are to us, it’s not worth trying to drain an entire pond to get yours back when you drop it over the side of a fishing boat and …
Nothing Has Popped Up Ye…
I saw this on Friday, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. It would be funny to collect all the factory resets for a bunch of phones and do this as often as possible. That telemarketer will be one pissed off dude…but he’s one pissed off dude who can’t make a call until they fix it. …
Kids React To Even More Stuff
Apparently I’m behind on my kids reacting to stuff. Here are kids reacting to old computers, like maybe my old apple? and Game Boys. Kids really have a problem with having to put media in side devices. Walkman? computer? typewriter? game boy? It’s really weird to think about how that’s changed. I never thought about …
Kids React To Typewriters
I wondered when they would have kids reacting to typewriters… What? They did? That was pretty funny. Expecting the paper to be pre-installed and marvelling over whiteout, or screaming at the thought of making copies were all pretty funny moments.
Cell Phones On My Bed Sheets Make Me Toasty
The story of the teenaged girl’s cell phone burning a hole in her bed while she slept has been all over the news the last few days, but for some reason, nobody has bothered to point out or perhaps even notice the little bit of humour in it…so allow me. The main character in this …
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Introducing The OCR Ring, A Fancy New Blindness Product That Might Actually Be Worth A Crap
Unlike that horrible EchoSense thing that Carin tore apart the other day, these text scanning ring people seem to be on the right track when it comes to developing a product that the blind population actually needs and may want to use. The prototype FingerReader fits like a ring on a user’s index finger, equipped …
What’s The Sense Of EchoSense?
I heard about this about a week and a half ago, and meant to blog about it that weekend. That didn’t happen. All I knew about it when I saw it on Twitter was it was some kind of revolutionary device for the blind, going to increase our independence. It was being madly retweeted over …
KNFB Reader For iPhone Is A Thing
Remember back when the makers of the KNFB Reader said it would not work on an iPhone? Well, they’ve gone and done it. Here, have your iBalls. Well, they didn’t call it iBalls, but ya know. I wondered what it would cost, since the price of the app for the Nokia phones was nearly a …
Technology Hitchin’ A Ride
I saw something about this while looking at Twitter. The first time I saw it, it just sort of made me raise my eyebrows. Then I saw it again, and I gave it some more thought. So here’s the story, as much as I understand it. Some researchers in Toronto have built a hitchhiking robot. …