 Fingernail Watch, All the rage in 2154 |
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 Aug 8 2012, 05:17 AM
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Immortal Elf  Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392  |
Saw a picture of this in my stream and had to share.
http://www.switched.com/2008/07/23/fingern...e-rage-in-2154/ |
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Aug 8 2012, 05:54 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
Cool.
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Aug 8 2012, 07:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 583 Joined: 6-November 09 From: MTL Member No.: 17,849 |
QUOTE by Christine Whitney on July 23, 2008 at 10:56 AM Wonder if they've come up with a working one yet |
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Aug 8 2012, 10:17 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Dr.Rockso @ Aug 8 2012, 03:59 PM)  Wonder if they've come up with a working one yet Heh. |
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Aug 9 2012, 12:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: 26-August 10 Member No.: 18,972 |
Talk about having to pay attention. You could scratch an arm and change your timezone.
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Aug 9 2012, 03:57 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,575 Joined: 5-February 10 Member No.: 18,115 |
Because adhering a readable graphical display onto the surface of a fingernail makes so much more sense than adhering it literally anywhere else on your hand or arm. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sarcastic.gif)
Seriously, this is practically the very definition of technocrap. It's like in the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, with the radio you control by making hand gestures in the air, with the added side effect that any errant minor motion will send the tuning hurtling across a dozen or so stations other than the one you were trying to listen to. There is absolutely no reason to stick this sort of device on a human fingernail. In fact, there are some pretty good reasons not to do so, most of which involve the fact that the tips of your fingers are meant for touching things. It's also not all that technologically impressive. This could be produced with current technology today, and it'd STILL just be a gimmick. Show me a HUD in my glasses or implanted in the eye itself and I might be curious. And even that won't take 150 years to perfect. This is just one massive malaise of marketing masturbation - the sort of visionless pap that you get when you ask corporate drones to envision a product to fit a "futuristic" aesthetic. ~Umi |
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Aug 9 2012, 05:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: 26-August 10 Member No.: 18,972 |
Quite so. It's selling point is that it is something non-traditional.
QUOTE (Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw) It's like someone made a submarine out of metal, and the metal submarine works perfectly fine and became the norm, but then someone said, "Everyone makes submarines out of metal - let's make one out of bread!" Said better than I could. |
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Aug 9 2012, 05:51 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
I agree, quite a bit silly, but it was still worth sharing.
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Aug 9 2012, 04:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 583 Joined: 6-November 09 From: MTL Member No.: 17,849 |
QUOTE (Krishach @ Aug 9 2012, 01:32 AM) Quite so. It's selling point is that it is something non-traditional. Said better than I could. Hey, if they could make a working one that was safe I'd be a passenger aboard the S.S Baguette. |
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Aug 10 2012, 03:54 AM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 9,648 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (Dr.Rockso @ Aug 9 2012, 11:02 AM) Hey, if they could make a working one that was safe I'd be a passenger aboard the S.S Baguette. It might take a lot of dough to afford a ride, though. |
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Aug 10 2012, 02:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: 9-July 09 From: midwest Member No.: 17,368 |
I think we need a rimshot emote
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Aug 10 2012, 04:23 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,018 Joined: 3-July 10 Member No.: 18,786 |
QUOTE (ZeroPoint @ Aug 10 2012, 04:03 PM) I think we need a rimshot emote (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) |
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