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Enjoy,

Barbara

Morning!

Just came across this super post regarding Voice Enabling the iPhone!  To wit:

Wouldn’t it be nice to never dial a number again. What if you could just push one button and call all your friends by name? That in a nutshell is what Mobivox does. She’s a call assistant. “Hi Stuart. Who would you like to call?” My video examples below show how you can voice-enable the iPhone; in fact any phone and put all your friends on one button. Or simpler still [Read more]

Whenever you hear of Star Trek, you probably think of classic lines like "He’s dead, Jim (let’s blog about it!)" or "Beam me up Scotty!" or "Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi" etc.

But were you aware that some of the technologies conceived for the series have actually come into being in some form or another?

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When it comes to giving birth, you deserve luxury.  I well-remember my 12 hours of, ahem, delightful experiencing the Natural Way (it redefined my future labor plans to include three words, drugs drugs drugs!)…anything that would have alleviated it would have been a godsend to me.

Well!  Today’s affluent folk can certainly take advantage of incredible LDR resources.  To wit:

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Here’s a rather fascinating term - The Sandwich Generation. Who are these intrepid peoples, I hear you ask?

Well, they’re the folks who are sandwiched in between taking care of young whipper snappers and old raising-caners. To wit:
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Gad you have just got to LOVE what you can learn online.

Reported by 60 Second Science, a company called BotaniCALLS (get it? Botani CALLS? Heh? Heh?) has figured out a way to educate sentinent photosynthesizing lifeforms to twitter at you when they need to be watered.
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If you are within a small distance of any teenager child, oh, say, 738 miles, you probably know about style and trend fashions. You simply just canNOT attend 10th grade without the latest Coach handbag - you know, the thing that’s about, hmmm, the size of a butter stick and costs $400 or so? And due to ingenuity, of course, fashion knockoffs are big business for anyone who wants to seize cache at a discounted price. (image from TopGear).
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Confess - everyone KNOWS
that to truly manage your software builds, you need SABLE or SABLIME.

AND….to really take great pictures, you need a flash cube.

AND….to really get super music enjoyment, you need to balance the tone arm on the turntable.

And don’t get me started on that most magnificent of editors, VI!

Did you know there’s now a site dedicated to them?

Yes indeed - Obsolete Skills. Visit it now - it will really start memory lane revvin’ on up! Especially:

Common Sense:

Skills

Common Sense

Field	General
Went Obsolete	Middle part of the 20th century
Made Obsolete By	The invention of the lawyer/lawsuit
Knowledge Assumed	None
When useful	Everyday

Unfortunately not too common any more.

Want some more obsolete goodies? Visit:

• The Obsolete Wiki
• Obsolete Academic Librarian Skills
• Obsolete Computer Museum
• Obsolete Drafting
• Retro Technology
• Crystal Radio design, late 1920’s TRF Radios, antique Hearing Aids and Blonder-Tongue Labs

Brings back memories, eh?

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

ps - more obsolete goodies include:

Ah, the joys of coffee
in the morning…and music in the morning….and coffee and music in your ipod in the morning…..

From Dvice:

…You can think of the Yuento Music Mug as the iPod speaker dock for the minimalist Jonathan Ive (award winning Apple designer) wanna-bes out there. Hidden at the bottom of the pure white cup is a tiny stereo input you connect your iPod to, allowing your sweet sounds to flow from the bottom of the unit. Designed by Masato Tokuno, the device’s pure simplicity makes it unlikely to win any Ive-sized awards, but design purists will appreciate the restraint exercised by the Japanese creator….MORE….

I can see my kids now concocting experiments with such a thing….

And if you’d like more music and ipod and coffee resources, check out:

• iPod Coffee Table
• Digital Coffee Shop Sounds
• Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Order Starbucks coffee via iPhone or iPod Touch

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

ps - want gourmet coffee goodies?

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Enjoy.

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert