Earlier today, in the wake of the announcement of the Peek 9, the latest and greatest in a series of truly baffling gadgets, Brian Barrett asked “Who In Their Right Mind Would Buy a Peek 9?” Well, would you?
Once upon a time, mobile phones were used for making phone calls. Then text messaging became a thing. Cameras, maps and multimedia playback followed and eventually we got apps. But would you be satisfied going back to the bread and butter?
Recently, a bank teller in California foiled a robber by convincing him that he actually needed to take out a loan, busying the criminal with paperwork until the police arrived. Do you consider the teller’s action a social hack?
Live streams were a godsend for us office-folk during the World Cup earlier this year, because watching games in halting, blocky clips was better than not watching them at all. Otherwise, though, is streaming good enough to really be enjoyable?
Some of us have piles of abandoned, unused and old gadgets sitting around, and we don’t know what to do with them. Should we recycle them? Reuse them somehow? Throw them in the trash? What do you do?
Today we got Google Instant, a fairly radical overhaul of Big G’s homepage that delivers predictive search results as you type. That’s crazy! But do you think it’s crazy cool or crazy stupid?
