Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
I long ago gave up even reading stories about numbskulls who blindly follow their GPS units into bad situations, but there’s something different about this one. Yes it’s somebody reacting to what their GPS says in the stupidest way possible, but somehow this one strikes me as worse than usual because in most of those …
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Reading about this new Access Earth project, two thoughts crossed my mind. 1. This looks pretty swell and we should tell our wheelchair friends about it. 2. I wonder if Matt Wozenilek is still out there shaking folks down for cash instead of doing something productive like this to help everyone’s cause. The platform was …
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I had my doubts they were going to make it, but the Dictation Bridge project that we’ve been plugging here and there has reached its $20000 goal. Last week, the DictationBridge Indie Go-Go campaign reached its entire $20,000 goal with about 8 hours left in a 60 day fundraising effort. The DictationBridge team had 12 …
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*puts on old man hat* Great. I’m trying to enjoy a quick hamburger in peace, but I can’t because numbnuts in the next booth thinks he’s fucking Drake or some shit. Thanks, McDonald’s. As First We Feast points out, McDonald’s in the Netherlands recently introduced a music-making placemat called McTrax. McTrax works with a smartphone app …
Finally, a worthwhile and useful wearable that I totally want to use. This is some seriously Star Trek level shit right here, and these guys would have to be the biggest fuckups in the universe and beyond to not become gazillionaires based on it. They’re already off to a fine start in that department (not …
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GPS apps are great, but when they say you’ve arrived, you can all but guarantee that you totally haven’t arrived. You’re usually in the middle of a parking lot or standing on a sidewalk kinda sorta closeish but not nearly close enough to what you’re looking for with little or no idea of what to …
When I saw this video about Domino’s Pizza making a delivery robot, I had to wonder…did Steve’s friend Greg go to Australia? That has to be why they invented the thing. Story time. A long, long time ago, when Steve and I still lived in that building that had the big fire that night in …
If it wasn’t for the potential for damage to innocent vehicles and for unnecessary trauma being inflicted on folks acting like properly adjusted human beings are supposed to act in the world, I’d say to hell with these morons and their stupid phones, who cares if they die? But since both of those things are …
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As I sit here, thinking yet again that maybe I’m just getting old, it strikes me that while I know many types of people from many different age groups, I have yet to meet a single one who either finds or would admit to finding that a nice dinner out with friends or a loved …
Maybe life has passed me bye. That could be. I am, after all, closer to 40 than I am to 30. But rather than slowly come to terms with my advancing age as I mutter about these damn kids today with their widgets and bobbles, I’d rather think that no matter your age, you, like …