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The Future Is Now: Sexist Billboards and Google Glasses
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Please Most Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, ensure they include facial recognition software and I'll never have to remember another fucking name ever again.
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Why do I have this vision of a bunch of tech nimrods wearing goggles and walking into each other because they're too busy shaking their heads to get the stupid things to register and looking at the contents to notice that they're in each others way?
I also have a vision of street hoodlums setting traps whereby goggle-wearers fall into buckets of tar. Good times!
I also have a vision of street hoodlums setting traps whereby goggle-wearers fall into buckets of tar. Good times!
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I'm waiting for the first accident due to using Google Goggles while driving. I give it about a week after they're introduced.
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I saw, in a catalog, some snowboarding goggles that sound a lot like this, but I think these required a connecting power supply from a jacket that likely sports all-over print of tiny uzis. I have no idea if these are in regular use or not, but until recently, I had no idea people wore helmets on the slopes either.
But hey, if some people didn't buy the in-cabin air filter, the rest of us couldn't get oil changes for $40.
But hey, if some people didn't buy the in-cabin air filter, the rest of us couldn't get oil changes for $40.
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Also -
I think you've mentioned you're a George Saunders fan as well, Paul? That item about the billboards— nearly straight out of a story from ''In Persuasion Nation'' (the one about the flamboyant grandson).
I think you've mentioned you're a George Saunders fan as well, Paul? That item about the billboards— nearly straight out of a story from ''In Persuasion Nation'' (the one about the flamboyant grandson).
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@6 You pay $40? You need the $15 off e-coupon. Wink at the attendant and your Google glasses will take care of the rest.
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The NYT gives so little detail as to be meaningless. A price between $250 and $600! A release date two full cycles of consumer technology away!
I've got a bridge to sell you.
I've got a bridge to sell you.
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These goggles are an inevitable development.
I'll wait on adopting until I can control them with my tongue and teeth.
I'll wait on adopting until I can control them with my tongue and teeth.
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@8 - My wink doesn't go as far as it used to, which is to say it doesn't even make people laugh anymore.
Maybe we can get some heads-up cross hairs on them things to help folks guide their cars safely over the manned pit of the "just stay in your fucking vehicle!" oil change place I last took my girlfriend's car to. It isn't terrible hard, but hopefully it might be safer for the folks working assuming it's easier than landing on the air craft carrier in Top Gun for NES, which is has to be.
Maybe we can get some heads-up cross hairs on them things to help folks guide their cars safely over the manned pit of the "just stay in your fucking vehicle!" oil change place I last took my girlfriend's car to. It isn't terrible hard, but hopefully it might be safer for the folks working assuming it's easier than landing on the air craft carrier in Top Gun for NES, which is has to be.
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HUD glasses? Great, pair those with a bluetooth headset and you'll have jackasses that not only stare at other people while carrying on private conversations over their phone, but nod and shake their heads and otherwise gesture about. I can't wait until they pair these glasses with haptic gloves that involve pointing and other gestures that can be similarly misconstrued.
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I want to buy them just so I can yell, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" whenever they don't work.
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This is the revenge of the nerdy nearsighted on the 20/20 crowd. "Oh, you want the awesome new computer toy? Too bad you don't wear glasses, two-eyes!" High fives and secret D&D handshakes ensue.
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Google Glasses? So I guess Denno Coil is finally coming to life.
Now if I could only get rid of that damn Sacchi...
Now if I could only get rid of that damn Sacchi...
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One doesn't have to be "trans" to be offended by the inherent "binary genderness" of this. I have no idea what it would do with me... I am frustrated and offended by advertising that reinforces the false notion of only two genders.
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@20: I hope you're trolling or otherwise parodying, but there is a great deal of truth in the perception of two genders in humans. Sure, gender is a continuum, but the distribution is very strongly bimodal.
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