Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

When I Was 17, I Was Just Happy To Have An Allowance

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Man…
I feel like I was born in the wrong decade.  When I was a young adult in the eighties, there were ten year olds making gobs of money by writing the next great computer game or program.  In my house, we didn’t get our first personal computer until I was 19, [...]

Overheard In Japan: “Kinect? What’s That?”

It seems that after a year on the shelves of Japanese markets, the (supposedly) amazing, (possibly racist) Kinect is tanking badly.  It apparently has only captured a scant 2% of sales worldwide.  The reason?  According to Wired, it doesn’t fit in with Japanese culture.  It seems that Japanese houses are waaaaaaaay too small to conform [...]

The Otakulist: Three Forms Of Transportation That Will Make You Happy You Lived Long Enough To Get Your License

Have you ever felt that the past made broken promises to you about the future?  I mean, I can remember actual promotional materials from the sixties about what the future would hold for personal transportation and communication such as the video phone or the flying car.  

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