Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat and sleek Man, do I ever hope this guy is right, because I hate touch screens. I say that without the slightest hint of exaggeration. If there was a regular old push …
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“How Do We Weaponize This Against The Vulnerable,” Asked Everyone
Reading about a concept called purpose-bound money, a few things come to mind. I’d love to know how much investment cash was fleeced out of people who didn’t realize they were financing the invention of the gift card. It sounds like a privacy nightmare by design. Assuming they haven’t already, how long is it going …
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Would You Like Fries With That? Should I Toss Them In The Coke?
I haven’t heard anything about how Google and Wendy’s are doing with their AI ordering experiment, but according to this here report from the BBC, IBM and McDonald’s have been trying something similar and it’s gone so well that the system is being removed this summer. It seems that it failed for the very reasons …
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I’m Suddenly Not Very Thirsty
I just got what should have been a very tempting marketing email. “Splash into our summer cocktail menu,” it offered. It also used this emoji. đź’¦ “What,” you might be asking yourself at this moment, “is the problem there? I assume there’s a problem since you said “should have been tempting”.” The problem, my curious …
I’m Sick Of These Mute Muting Mutes In this Mute Muting Movie
If you’re a certain kind of person, the idea of a device that could cut all of the bad words out of movies and TV shows might sound just dandy to you. And if it could also swap those words out of the closed captions and replace them with nicer ones? Even better! But I …
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Rest Easy, Buzzer
When we stopped overpaying Bell for a landline in favour of only overpaying Rogers for cell service (what a country we live in), by far our biggest logistical hurdle was making sure that Carin and I both had access to our building’s buzzer so that either one of us could open the door if the …
Shockingly, I Can Breathe
There’s almost no chance that I would pay actual money for this based on concept alone, but I have enough trouble with my nose on a daily basis that I would for sure try the hell out of one if somebody let me. Although described as a massager, the NasoCalm doesn’t work like the Therabody …
Zoom In The 1980s
This would be great if a pandemic ever took over the world…not that that’s gonna happen, hahahaha!
Don’t Break The Bank. Food Bank Instead
If you find yourself in Ottawa this summer, do be sure to make some time to visit one of the city’s best dining spots. The Food Bank. Microsoft took down an article from its sprawling web empire that recommended travelers visit the Ottawa Food Bank on an empty stomach as a tourist attraction in the …
According To Wikipedia, A Hamburger, Or Simply Burger, Is A Sandwich Consisting Of Fillings—Usually A Patty Of Ground Meat, Typically Beef—Placed Inside A Sliced Bun Or Bread Roll…
“What if,” said some cheap asshole one morning, “we could find a way to line our pockets even more while not sacrificing our long established commitment to infuriating customers and screwing up orders? And what if, and this is the best part other than the lining our pockets part, we could do those things faster …