Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
This is a little weird and creepy in a the machines are taking over sort of way, but it also looks kind of neat. Microsoft, Whole Foods and a company called Chaotic Moon are teaming up to build a robot shopping cart. It follows you around the store, helps you keep track of the items …
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One of the biggest problems with using digital cable or satellite TV when you’re blind is that you can’t use any of the really cool features. Yeah you’ve got a gazillion stations, but if you can’t use the guide to figure out what’s on them or even where they are, it adds a degree of …
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I have to write this down in the hopes that it might help someone. So I’m going through some fun mystery health issues. Yee ha. When they’re not too bad, I can get out and about and lead a normal life. But when they rear their ugly heads and start beating on me, I’m pretty …
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So…this place sure has been hopping lately, eh? Yeah…about that. I’m sorry. Really, I am. But to be honest, it can’t be helped, and I can’t say when it’s going to get better. I don’t want to get into a whole lot of specifics, so I’ll leave it at this: There are a few things …
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The reasons for me to finally cave and invest in a phone much smarter than my current one have been piling up for a while now, and here’s another one. Calling customer service usually involves a kink in my shoulder, bad jazz flute music, and lots of waiting. I’ve decided that I’ve got better things …
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An exchange happened a while ago between myself and a tech support chicky for Samsung that I still snicker about when I think about it. I mentioned my friend and his phone saga in another long and winding post. Anyway, as part of his phone saga, we were trying to make it so it made …
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Just in case someone out there is desperately searching for a last-minute Christmas gift, and office war implements would totally be the perfect gift, there are newer, crazier USB rocket launchers out there. This one, you can control from afar, using your iThing. Can you imagine? You’re not even at your desk, but your desk …
It’s random thought splatter time. Put on your rubber boots, this thought puddle’s a doozer. Like every year, I have to get my silly Christmas shopping talk in there. When December started, I was flipping out, I’d hardly bought anything, and it was…what was Steve’s word? De-fucking-cember? I can’t find it, but ya know. Anyway, …
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I hope these new advertisement-blaring, conversation-spying poles won’t be coming to an intersection near me anytime soon. I thought the security cameras were bad enough, but there’s something even creepier about these ones. Like something out of a sinister Orwellian vision of the future, streetlights with the ability to monitor conversations and announce government warnings …
I saw this a while ago, and have been meaning to write about it. Some japanese scientists have invented a robotic guide dog. What I don’t get about this is they say they invented it due to the rapidly aging population. So…there aren’t enough guide dogs to go around? Is that the reason? Why would …