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.
Category Archives: gadgets
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. …
No More Fleksy VO?
Previously, Carin wrote about the decision of Fleksy’s developers to split the app into two versions, one for users of Voiceover and one for everyone else. There’s been some movement on that front, movement that was made back at the end of April but that we’re just getting around to now because hospitals and weddings. …
The Sound Of Floppies
And now, The Sound of Silence as performed by a bunch of disk drives. Music to the ears, isn’t it?
I Think I Want A Mac
As some of you know, I’m still in the market for a new computer. Which kind I should get is proving to be a hell of a puzzler, though. For a while I was pretty much talked into getting a Mac and running Windows in some form of virtual machine so I could still have …
Yeesh. The Phone’s Ringing Again. Somebody Light A Match
I imagine the creators of the oPhone have only the best of intentions, but short of people like me and the vast majority of my friends using it to sicken and abuse each other and people we don’t like, I don’t see much of a market for it. oNotes are texts, images, and sounds accompanied …
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