Archive for January, 1970
Get Drunk, Flirt In Vegas Via Microsoft Surface
The Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has unveiled for public use six 30-inch touch screen Microsoft Surface tables, along with special applications built by Rio parent company Harrah’s that facilitating FLIRTING AND ORDERING DRINKS. The “Flirt” application lets you identify another Surface user i…
New Robot Walks, Dances, Kisses Like a Girl
Sega Toys says they plan to ship in Japan a new $175 “female” robot September 26 that can WALK, SING, DANCE AND KISS LIKE A GIRL. The robot, called EMA (for Eternal Maiden Actualization– I guess it’s a Japanese thing…) has sensors. When you pucker up and get near it, the EMA will give you a kiss….
‘Emotional’ Robot Penguin ‘Emits Smells’
South Korean researchers unveiled this week a penguin robot called Pomi (for Penguin Robot for Multimodal Interaction) that can “EMIT SMELLS” based on how it “feels” (Why is this good?) The robot, which is designed to imitate human emotions, has a fake heart beat that changes tempo based on its emot…
The 7 Easy Features the ‘iPhone Killers’ Missed
The “iPhone Killer” cell phones — including the Garmin’s Nuviphone; Samsung’s Instinct and Omnia; HTC’s Touch Diamond; BlackBerry Thunder; and others — have touch screen technology and other features are usually advanced and sophisticated. Nearly all of them, for example, have features superior …
Clinic Treats Children For Cell Phone Addiction
A clinic in Spain has reportedly been treating 12- and 13-year-olds for CELL PHONE ADDICTION for three months. Like drug addicts, the kids were “failing at school and deceiving relatives in an attempt to obtain more money for phone cards.”Original post by Mike
Here Comes the Cell Phone Advertising Disaster
The problem isn’t that somebody out there is looking for innovative ways to leverage your cell phone to sell you something. The problem is that EVERYBODY IS DOING IT. The result will turn your cell phone into an annoying, interrupting, commercial idiot box that combines all the worst qualities of TV…
Why It’s OK to ‘Steal’ Wi-Fi
TIME Magazine printed this week a piece called, “Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief,” in which author Lev Grossman admits to using available open Wi-Fi connections from his apartment. Grossman writes that “stealing” Wi-Fi might be illegal (statutes vary according to where you live) but “definitely unethic…