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by **Dark Avorian** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:50 pm UTC

Unfortunately...I am adept enough that I found that...and it did nothing...I guess the fuckers are duds.
Wonderfuckingful

by **PhoenixEnigma** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:50 am UTC

They look like they were designed for cell phones and use a 3.5mm TRRS connector to pass stereo audio and mic in through one connector. I'm not aware of any PCs that support that (though there's a few forum posts that say some Dells do, or did?). PC standard is two TRS connectors - one for headphone out, one for mic in. You'll need something like this to make it work.

by **Boris Veganofsky** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:02 am UTC

Some Thinkpads have that.

by **dhokarena56** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:42 am UTC

Andrew Schafly and the Conservative Insights would make a good band name.

by **You, sir, name?** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:05 pm UTC

One of my neighbors left this little dude on a dryer in the laundry room. Brightened my yesterday.

Spoiler:

by **felltir** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:36 pm UTC

I HAVE SOME OF THOSE

by **Ptolom** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:46 pm UTC

felltir wrote:I HAVE SOME OF THOSE

ME TOO

by **Garm** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:47 pm UTC

dhokarena56 wrote:Andrew Schafly and the Conservative Insights would make a good band name.

Conservapedia disagrees with you.

It's amazing how little information All-Hands style meetings generally produce. It's usually a lot of strum und drang for nothing.

by **Cathy** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:44 pm UTC

dear lord.

http://www.nativis.com/drug-signal-technology/

QUACK, QUACK, QUACK. Apparently I'm a duck for easter, but this website is full of QUACK QUACK.

by **darknut** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:33 pm UTC

Cathy wrote:http://www.nativis.com/drug-signal-technology/

...what
read that 3 times, if asked to summarizes; dont think i could do it.
theres a drug, does...something. and no side effects, i dont know

by **Angua** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:44 pm UTC

hmmmmmmmmm

Time to link this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0&feature=related

It's a Mitchell and Webb skit about a homeopathic A&E (ER for Americans)

by **PhoenixEnigma** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:19 pm UTC

darknut wrote:
Cathy wrote:http://www.nativis.com/drug-signal-technology/

...what
read that 3 times, if asked to summarizes; dont think i could do it.
theres a drug, does...something. and no side effects, i dont know

I think, if I'm reading it right, they're proposing taking existing drugs and beaming holograms of them inside you. Or something. Maybe with lasers?

by **poxic** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:22 pm UTC

I've heard of it. It's pretty much homeopathy with some fancy science-sounding language wrapped around it. Still bullshit, but it's impressively creative bullshit.

by **Angua** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:24 pm UTC

PhoenixEnigma wrote:
darknut wrote:
Cathy wrote:http://www.nativis.com/drug-signal-technology/

...what
read that 3 times, if asked to summarizes; dont think i could do it.
theres a drug, does...something. and no side effects, i dont know

I think, if I'm reading it right, they're proposing taking existing drugs and beaming holograms of them inside you. Or something. Maybe with lasers?

Magnets, I think. Apparently the SQUID thing is actually used in EMG machines.

by **bigglesworth** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:17 pm UTC

It's a fun idea, and would be a good fit for a sci-fi book (laser surgery but better!).

by **You, sir, name?** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:14 am UTC

I get the weirdest spam nowadays

Hello Dear,
compliment of the day, I'm Miss Helen as it is my pleasure to write you after dreaming about your contact and i become interested in communicating with you. I appreciate you write me through my email (foo@barington.baz) to tell you more about myself and send you my picture,
yours new friend.
Miss Helen,

by **bigglesworth** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:28 am UTC

Write to someone with a picture of them in the email? Creepy thought.

by **Gears** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:11 am UTC

That awkward moment when you're watching porn and you see somebody you know.

by **dhokarena56** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:21 am UTC

Gears wrote:That awkward moment when you're watching porn and you see somebody you know.

...I...I have nothing to say to that.

by **Magnanimous** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:46 am UTC

Gears wrote:That awkward moment when you're watching porn and you see somebody you know.

It's even weirder when you see yourself.

by **Steax** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:03 am UTC

Thinking about the Google Glass project (link just in case) kind of scared me. I can totally see this going the same way of the phone - clumsy and unnatural at first, and then it gets accepted and you can't tell them apart from normal glasses at all. And then everyone starts wearing them. It reminded me that we're not at the pinnacle of our technology with these computers yet, and my descendants will have a lot to look forward to...

by **Xeio** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:11 am UTC

Now I just have to wait till they can display names above peoples heads and I won't have to worry about remembering them.

by **Steax** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:15 am UTC

Given that they're heavily integrating Google+ and also showed features involving getting other people's locations... And an accurate gyroscope might fit... It doesn't look too far. In a wifi-connected city, they could also triangulate everyone's positions for good accuracy. Then it's a matter of facial recognition and matching them up with people in the area.

by **Boris Veganofsky** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:39 am UTC

NOPE.

by **UniqueScreenname** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:51 am UTC

Not to sound like an old fogey or anything, but I can't imagine trying to have a conversation with someone and all of a sudden their eyes glaze over and they decide to check their email or their facebook or look at pictures while I'm trying to talk to them. A phone is bad enough. Plus, can you imagine people trying to drive with those? An update in the middle of your field of view and then right into the back of a car sitting at a red light. I'm not optimistic about this.

by **Steax** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:59 am UTC

I have a ton of concerns too... Especially about there always being a camera strapped to my face.

by **Boris Veganofsky** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:01 am UTC

I don't like people expecting me to be reachable at any time. It's bad enough with cell phones. Maybe the reason I didn't pick up was that I wanted to be fucking left alone.

by **Steax** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:06 am UTC

Arguably, this is better than cell phones. Cell phones make audible rings that annoy everyone. These things probably use much lower volumes and you could just take it off if you don't feel like interfacing with it.

Though yeah, I really don't like people trying to contact me endlessly as well.

by **SecondTalon** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:20 am UTC

Steax wrote:Arguably, this is better than cell phones. Cell phones make audible rings that annoy everyone. These things probably use much lower volumes and you could just take it off if you don't feel like interfacing with it.

Though yeah, I really don't like people trying to contact me endlessly as well.

Phones have silent running modes for a reason.

by **Steax** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 3:57 am UTC

Even in silent mode, they tend to vibrate. I'm also hoping these glasses will detect when they're taken off so they instantly switch all my messenger statuses to "probably sleeping".

by **dhokarena56** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:54 am UTC

If you think that you have anything better to do than play The Great Gatsby reimagined as a game for the NES, then you are living a lie.

by **Ubik** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 8:55 am UTC

In Google's vision you wouldn't be driving a car anyway, but I think that one thing they are doing is to have a concentration mode anyway because situations requiring no distractions will exist in any case. The privacy concerns are the main thing I think, though everyone having a video recorder with them all the time can be empowering too...well, definitely in good and bad.

by **Zarq** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:07 am UTC

I'm still not convinced this isn't a April Fools joke.

by **Ubik** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:14 am UTC

Oh I just remembered that the piece of the video where the guy climbs up to a high building to show a sunset through the glasses is similar to a piece of this Sarif Industries ad, the mountain view part.

by **SlyReaper** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:20 am UTC

Zarq wrote:I'm still not convinced this isn't a April Fools joke.

Why do people keep saying this? What's so hard to believe about it? We live in an age where people walk around with high powered computers/communication devices in their trousers pockets; turning them into glasses is the next logical step. Pretty much all the technology needed already exists, it just has to be miniaturised.

by **Zarq** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:43 am UTC

It's just very sudden. And the fact that it was April Fools last week.

by **Angua** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:06 am UTC

You should see the prosthetic glasses we were showing off at the Royal Society exhibition this summer. They were for people with very limited vision, and basically consisted of a crude, transparent LED display, and cameras which allowed the glasses to calculate depth and hopefully also be able to do things like tracking so you can follow a single person around. The idea is that you tell the glasses what you think the most important information is in your environment, and they only light that up. You could, say, track a single person while walking down the street, or navigate around an unfamiliar place if you set close objects to bright.

by **OBrien** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:49 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:Why do people keep saying this? What's so hard to believe about it? We live in an age where people walk around with high powered computers/communication devices in their trousers pockets; turning them into glasses is the next logical step. Pretty much all the technology needed already exists, it just has to be miniaturised.

We also have cyborgs in modern society.

by **The Cat** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:44 pm UTC

Go lefty!

by **Giant Speck** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:18 am UTC

68.23 miles on my bike today.

OW GODDAMN IT OW.

I actually feel kind of sick. I'm going to have to change my route for Saturday. One hundred miles is seriously out of the question.

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