First it was walking and texting-related injuries. Now those injuries have subcategories, one of them is twinjuries, or injuries suffered while twittering. James Coleman decided he would jog and tweet, tweet and jog, and so he was jog jog joggin’ along..and then…it happened! Clonk! Head meets tree, and he heard tweets of a different kind. …
Category Archives: gadgets
Cell Phone Seminar
There’s an interesting online seminar, I refuse to say webinar with any seriousness, being put on by Citizens with Disabilities of Ontario. the subject is cellphones and people with disabilities and the presenter is Jeff Stark. I think they ask some pretty interesting questions, and if you register, you can ask questions of your own. …
Want To Have Your Phone Talk Right Out Of The Box? There’s An App For That.
This is pretty cool news. The iPhone that is being released in mid July will come equipped with a version of Voiceover, the Mac’s screen-reader. That means that, out of the box, the iPhone will work for blind folks. We won’t need to buy another screen-reader package and lay out more cash. That’s a pretty …
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We Notice Too Many Ads
Here we go again with the comercials. I saw an ad for Iams dog food that said that the food would produce the seven signs of healthy vitality. Uh, what other kind of vitality is there? I’ve never heard of unhealthy vitality. I guess cancer could have healthy vitality that would be unhealthy for you, …
USBeans
This is a scary sign of the times. Because we’re sooo busy that we can’t make it out for lunch, Heinz has invented the beanzawave. What is it? A tiny microwave oven that you can hook up to a USB port on a laptop that uses radio frequencies to cook your food…so you never have …
My Wife Makes Me Wear A Burnin’ Ring Of Fire
Now here’s a, um, memorable invention? It’s the Remember Ring. Here’s how it works. The Remember Ring™ utilizes patent pending Hot Spot™ technology to deliver a reminder that it’s “That time of the year again!” 24 hours before your special day, the Hot Spot™ on the interior surface of your Remember Ring™ will warm to …
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Head Down to The Cyborg Store
I’m getting scared. Now, the University of Florida has developed neural implants that can think on their own. The initial use, if the technology makes it beyond rats, is to help paraplegics use their limbs again, which is very cool. But there is some serious not cool potential here. Oh look, it’s Transcendent Man again.
You Can Scream…But Noone Will Hear You!
I know this scream muffler was intended for a person to put over one’s own mouth to muffle their own screams, I guess if they were stressed out or something, but I could see it going horribly, horribly wrong real fast. I mean, I can’t see why another person couldn’t put it over someone else’s …
>Nooo! You’ll Get The Chip!
>Two thoughts about this guy’s creepy idea, actually I should make it 3. 1. Eeeek! Seriously! How about no? 2. If it should be implanted in fugitives, how are ya gonna get it in there? If they’re running from justice, they’re not very well gonna stop and let ya shoot them with a microchip like …
Be Quick In the Shower…Or Else
And Steve thought his shower had it in for him. Imagine if it had been outfitted with this creepy shower curtin. It’s a water-saving shower curtain. How does it do that? Well, ya see, it inflates around you as you shower. You only have so long to shower before you’re trapped in there. Yikes! And …