Mike G wrote (fwd from "Joly MacFie" <[email protected]>):
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch- > for-iphone-and-android/posts/206626 > > Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It's > infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and > useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and > Android smartphones using Bluetooth Amazing, the enthusiam exhibited by the otaku readers of the referenced page. Ah, well, I have to get right on that bandwagon, now don't I? I'm going to design a series of Bluetooth/Wifi/TCP/IP/Noetic-science enabled sundials and armillary spheres for use, respectively, in sunless corporate cubicle farms and the deep and remote caverns to which cubicle denizens flee when they break. [1] This instantly reminds me, naturally, of Dick Tracy's wristwatch phone (although this is a phone wristwatch.) At the risk of diverting this serious converstion with levity, I direct you to: http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/tracy.jpg where Tracy and Sam confront the lastest law enforcement tech. [2] Frivolity aside, I kinda like the Kickstarter concept. As a rule, even among 20-somethings who aren't already involved in or committed to mortgages, children, careers or constructive obsessions, you might be able to get two or three or half a dozen people together to pursue or fund an off-the-wall project. Much harder with we'uns older folks, folded, stapled and spindled as we tend to be. The net can use the PWHSWGTAOF [3] phenomenon to rope in a much larger number. Not to be overlooked, though, is that Kickstarter and Amazon get about 10% off the top. [6] - Mike [1] I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season. -- Microcoder Josh Rosen, in _Soul of a New Machine_ [2] New Year's Day. Note the scribbled New Year greeting from Chester Gould in the last frame. (Clipped from a paper found in an attic in 1999.) [3] People Who Have Sex With Goats That Are On Fire. (Quod google if you don't know the joke) I had imagined that I recalled a great many trivia of remarkable obscurity. Who is Arnold Snarb? [4] What's a "mocket head"? [5] Nobody I know F2F knows either of those things. But google reveals that I'm but one of very many who do. Sigh. Sic transit ego something-or-other. [4] See _The Crying of Lot 49_. [5] Term from (then) high tech 17th c. iron manufacturing. [6] The true promise of the computer is that you turn it on and money effortlessly pours out. Still working on that, y'know? -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
