Please Most Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, ensure they include facial recognition software and I'll never have to remember another fucking name ever again.
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 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.
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).
@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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
I also have a vision of street hoodlums setting traps whereby goggle-wearers fall into buckets of tar. Good times!
But hey, if some people didn't buy the in-cabin air filter, the rest of us couldn't get oil changes for $40.
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've got a bridge to sell you.
I'll wait on adopting until I can control them with my tongue and teeth.
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.
Now if I could only get rid of that damn Sacchi...