It's a lifestyle thing. Innovation should hi-jack the zeitgeist more often.
If you've ever seen a dog wearing a textile coat, you'll understand the principle of creating fatuous demand, and someone getting away with it. This, however, goes beyond that obvious level of human gullibility, because it says something sharp about the finite nature of available time, and what it truly means to multitask successfully.
Let me ask you, what's the furthest distance you've ever been from a kettle after you've switched it on to boil? Were you online at the time?
http://www.tgdaily.com/unbalanced/49273-twettle-kettle-tweets-you-when-it-boils
I always liked that story about the kid in Tokyo who downloaded a ripped copy of the soundtrack for The Dark Knight Returns, discovered that one of the tracks skipped, and went ballistic. After bombarding message boards and warez sites with enough venom and revenge-fuelled malware packages to cripple the computer systems of half the city, he broke into his grandfather's house and tried to kill himself with a ceremonial katana. He lived a stone's throw away from a record store.
It's probably apocryphal.
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Late Addition: By "designer", do they mean "designed to look a bit odd"?
Poor little Artoo's got some vertical hold issues, apparently. (Sometimes it's just not enough to like USB flash drives and Star Wars.)
Details here: http://www.everythingusb.com/star-wars-mimobot-series-5-18742.html
Let me ask you, what's the furthest distance you've ever been from a kettle after you've switched it on to boil? Were you online at the time?
http://www.tgdaily.com/unbalanced/49273-twettle-kettle-tweets-you-when-it-boils
I always liked that story about the kid in Tokyo who downloaded a ripped copy of the soundtrack for The Dark Knight Returns, discovered that one of the tracks skipped, and went ballistic. After bombarding message boards and warez sites with enough venom and revenge-fuelled malware packages to cripple the computer systems of half the city, he broke into his grandfather's house and tried to kill himself with a ceremonial katana. He lived a stone's throw away from a record store.
It's probably apocryphal.
_________________________________________
Late Addition: By "designer", do they mean "designed to look a bit odd"?
Poor little Artoo's got some vertical hold issues, apparently. (Sometimes it's just not enough to like USB flash drives and Star Wars.)
Details here: http://www.everythingusb.com/star-wars-mimobot-series-5-18742.html