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As a rule, robots freak me out.
Not the Forbidden Planet kind, Robbie I can handle.
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But lately the tech companies are making these things bizarrely human-like and they tend to give me the creeps. Even the robotic dogs make me shudder.
So you can imagine how hard I cringed when I saw these….
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Oh, hell no.
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https://youtu.be/909UTYDtuGY?si=JbgWLJcN8pPeC5tJ
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That is truly nightmare inducing content.
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My husband went to Lowe’s for some weed wacker string the other day.
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So of course he came home with a new $800 battery operated lawn mower.
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Oh, it’s fancy.
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Multi speed self propelled motor, dual blades, telescopic adjustable handle…
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So fancy it took him 15 minutes to figure out how to start it.
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There’s so much extra tech… it came with three instruction manuals.
And neon green mulching blades.
And a detachable cell phone carrier.
It even has a cup holder.
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I told him it looked like a Tesla.
He was not amused.
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There was a learning curve and it took him a little while to get used to it. But then he was off and running…
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To he honest, I don’t think he loves it as much as he thought he would.
Not that he’d ever admit it.
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And no, He doesn’t push mow our whole back lawn. Just around the house, garden beds, barn and tighter spaces.
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This just keeps getting better.
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Several risks? I’m guessing there will be more than that.
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So once it lies, it won’t be able to stop?
Great.
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Lying, and manipulating humans to do its bidding.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you….
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You can’t use it, but you can laugh… and that’s always better.
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That’s what I call payback.
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You heard it here first Mark.
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I don’t care if you liked Barack or not, you can’t beat that for cool.
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Yes, there really are sneakers for horses now.
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It’s hard to argue with that logic.
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Proof positive there is such a thing as too much tech.
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I remember flipping through the Sharper Image catalog in the 80’s and being amazed at the wide array of gadgets on offer. Digital answering machines! Dual cassette decks! Pagers! It didn’t get much cooler than that.
Yes, we’ve come a long way since the VHS tape rewinder… but I still find myself checking out what the new Sharper Image is selling these days.
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This is awesome. Instant photos from your phone! Not that I ever print pictures anymore, but damn it… with that gadget I could if I wanted to.
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I already have a vinyl to MP3 converter, but now it’s possible to transfer all my old mixed tapes from the 80’s? Count me in.
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Okay, it’s true… I don’t play golf. But I also never like to be far from an ice cold margarita so this is totally going on my Christmas list.
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Husband was flipping through a magazine the other day and came across this…
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I think we all know our fair share of those.
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While I adore my phone, I have a strict no tech in bed policy. That way there be monsters….
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Karen. What a bitch.
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I admit to not being familiar with that term.
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But yes, it seems every day is Blursday lately.
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Needless to say I am very familiar with that term.
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Praise the God of Tequila! The man cave in the Barn Mahal is toasty and warm once more.
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A brand new ( to replace the almost new 3 month old ) exterior heat pump unit was installed yesterday afternoon. It looks exactly like the other one, but it damn well better last longer.
I asked the installers what the error codes showed was wrong with the first one and received a long detailed explanation. It went something like this…..
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Refrigerant. Blah blah blah. Coil. Blah blah blah. Build up. Blah blah blah.
The section of explanation that did translate clearly? The fact that the manufacturers say what went wrong was a one in a million occurrence.
Yay us. We have all the luck.
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I mean, really. Who wouldn’t?
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A wiener beverage is a beautiful thing.
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Who knew pricks were so helpful?
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I’ve been seeing a lot of the next type of item recently.
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If someone could explain the current fascination with unicorn bodily functions to me, that would be swell.
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Mixed tapes?
Someone needs to set Marty McFly’s dial to the 21rst Century.
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First it was cat butts, now Corgi.
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The world really has gone mad.
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Clearly, everything.
As evidenced by this product a FB friend bought for her family.
Well, you have to admit…. it’s catchy.
And I suppose techies will enjoy having a set of controls to play with while on the throne.
But what tickled me the most (while performing the due diligence blog research my readers have come to expect but neither care about nor want) was the ad campaign.
Save money on toilet paper!
Very timely.
I saw an advertisement the other day that made me do a double take.
This is one of those times.
Are we really doing this?
Baby Pod.
“The intravaginal device that entertains your fetus with an insertable speaker for your baby maker.”
It’s basically a small ( I hope! ) speaker that pregnant women can insert into their vaginas to play music for their uterine inhabitants.
Now while I’m usually down for any new tech that hits the market,
And I’ve connected my iPhone to a lot of different things over the years….
I admit this one gives me pause.
Here’s the science behind it:
Dr. Marisa López-Teijón from Institut Marquès said that her team studies the influence of music on embryonic and fetal development.”We’ve conducted a study showing that musical vibrations increase the chances that the sperm fertilizes the egg, i.e. that music improves IVF.”
Having found better results in in-vitro fertilization through musical vibrations for embryos, the researchers decided to apply their idea to fetuses.
López-Teijón and her team placed speakers on pregnant women’s abdomens during ultrasounds but found no fetal reaction. “In fact, gynecologists had never observed in an ultrasound a change on the fetus as a reaction to external noises or the voice of the mother,” the doctor explained.
“We decided that we had to bring closer to them the source of sound,” she continued. “We had to bring the background music into the uterus. And I had the idea of inserting a speaker in the vagina of pregnant women.”
I’m sure Apple Music and Spotify are thrilled.
For three months, the team evaluated 106 expectant mothers and their unborn babies’ reactions to intravaginal music. “We were pleasantly surprised to see the excitement of parents during ultrasound sessions to see the spectacular images of face, tongue and mouth movements of their babies,”López-Teijón said, adding that most patients wanted to repeat the experience and many more parents-to-be requested to participate.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest seeing spectacular images of their babies faces isn’t the only reason mothers are feeling excitement.
Admittedly, I don’t have children…. so forgive me if I’m speaking out of turn.
But if this had been available during my child bearing years?
Junior would probably have ended up like this.
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