Think about it: US Postal Service employees actually opening and scanning all your letters, and then sending you emails with their content with the option to receive the physical letter if you choose to. Scarily unreal? Not if you’re Finnish.
Today I’d like to talk to you about… backing up. I don’t just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I’m talking ’bout backing up the cloud.
It’s neat that the POSTCN01 mailbox counts letters and notifies you how much mail is waiting, but what gets me excited is that it looks like a bomb and detonator from an old movie. It’ll make my postman pee himself.
Package-tracking sensors aren’t super new, but Senseaware is one that’s unique because it tracks multiple criteria – temperature, location, drops and light exposure – and updates those to the web constantly. Useful when you’re transporting organs and not MP3 players.
You use it every single day. In English it’s called the “at sign.” The Italians call it “snail.” The Spaniards, “arroba.” The Slavs, “monkey.” But what did @ really mean 473 years ago?
Mail hoarding is a fantastic phenomenon. Slate explains it as the cases where postal workers stockpile mail/packages in their trucks, then act like they delivered them. I discovered that this happens with Fedex too.
If any of you out there use Yahoo! Mail, you might have noticed some changes to your account yesterday. Essentially they’ve introduced a smarter inbox system that prioritises messages from your contacts, plus the ability to send and receive up to 1GB worth of files. They’re also planning to introduce the ability to feed content from social media sites directly into your inbox…
