I can be quite a geek, but i think it's only because of my occupation. Getting a sneak peak of what technology is to come makes it excited about the future. It’s quite like a strip tease.
The year has finally kicked in and in the last year, these technologies have been promised to be commercially available. Girls get men to buy them fancy branded items, I’m saving up for a 3D printer so I can print every material want!
A Chanel? A hunk? Or maybe I can rob a bank with a home-made 3D printed gun and then escape jail with a home-made 3D printed handcuffs key.
While 3D printing technology brings criminal possibilities, it can also potentially solve food shortage by printing edible meat.
To buy from Cubify, it’s about SGD 2000 (yes, I was actually serious in buying) but I reckon 3D printers will either get more expensive or more affordable due to the demand. I make purchases like a girl, over-analyzing. However, the home 3D printers available can only prints useless solids which I CAN USE as paperweights but my mum already threatened to throw me out for my never-ending new shoes; I doubt we have space in our HDB for a 3D printer L
Then, there is Google glasses that remind me of Minority Report.
Thankfully, I haven’t gone for Lasik. I hate to be a poseur, wearing glasses with no degree. The first pair is expected to cost USD 1500.
Theologians say during Armageddon, we may have microchips inserted under our skin to pay for food. But before that happens, we first have to dance for our drink.
With the recent furor as a food blogger, and the recent post on mobile applications that change the dating world, I thought I’d share these whacky cases.
Now, 5 million of the 7 million smart phones in Singapore are iPhones. What makes your iPhone stand out from every Tom, Dick, Harry on the MRT?
When i first got my iPhone last Aug (late adopter), i made mine stand out with this cover that looked like a manual out of a Kung Fu flick (SGD 3 from J8,Bishan). My mum says i looked like i am a country bumpkin from China with this cover but what does she know about pop culture!
This IS then obiang.
Zipping and unzipping it wasn't too user friendly, eventually i lost the case :"( And i chanced upon this in Far East Plaza (SGD13).
Then it caught on and i started seeing many others using it.
Time to stand out further.
I've seen the calculator, chocolate bar and other similar around but i didn't find them looking real. Except the crayon one, it was kinda cute. I feel like a Kindergarten child, pubescent and nubile.
I wanted an edge. Then i saw this....
People judge me without knowing me anyway, i might as well warn them i am of explicit material and they better not come near me. True sign of a bad girl...
I didn't get it. I am really an innocent girl...despite writing topics like sex volunteering.
Then i saw this in KL and i bought not 1 but 4 to match my shoes.
I was COOL for 4 months until they started springing up in Bugis and Orchard.
I had to level up again.
I was honestly VERY tempted to buy this in Hong Kong (sgd 20), it reminded me of
I went back to the shop twice but decided against it because it would be really difficult to bring it around although it was an option to hang it around my neck like a senile old man.
Besides it didn't look really real, and i am all about authencity. If it's not real, don't do it...*cough* fake eyelashes *cough*
So, to level up my iPhone case and make it stand out among the crowd in the MRT...i found these...
The Japanese are perfectionist in making things and fake food is their pride and glory (all those window displays...). Each one individually hand-made, they don't come cheap (usd 50). A sign of wealth and foodie, these iPhone cases stand out.
Never go hungry with these! A good way to diet, you can stare till you're sick of food!
That is, IF you can ever stuff these sweet berries into your pants.
Smart phones are now used for spying and stalking. Perfect camouflage for the job! One for the army boys when you can't bring into camp camera phones. You risk being ridiculed for being a Mummy's boy for bringing in home cooked bento though! Or you could always say it's from your girlfriend and be the envy of hormone raging army boys.
We always know that lying is a no-no and it's a grey line with white lies. For the less endowed males, boast about the eel in your pants with this Unagi case!
And if you need to put out that fire in the pants?
When i was a student, my laptop was my lifeline. And it has made my heart stopped beating for a brief second, too many times. The times when it hangs, the times when its processor starts spinning really loud, the times when THE DREADED blue screen appears.
When that happens, you know what i'll do? I sweet talk it.
Yes, i coo to it like a baby, i cajole it to work again. Then as a safety net, i prayed very hard too. Just in case technology doesn't hear me, God will.
I should have gone for a Mac.
Apple create its ads by creating personalities and characters. It HUMANISED technology. If plants grow better when humans talk to it, why not technology performing better when you sweet talk it?
It's common that when a computer crashes, people commit some kind of computer violence. Whether is it they hurl abuse, they bang the keyboard or jam the off/on button repeatedly, people panic when they feel helpless over lost data.
However, this probably do more harm than good and it might cost even more if you threw the laptop out the window or down to the floor.
I may be a tom boy but i am gentle as a lamb. My heart aches whenever someone turns off the computer without shutting down properly. I could feel the computer's pain. Knowing how to deal with computer crashes is a good way to practice anger management too. Take it as a good time to peel away from that screen. And about retyping all that info? Well, it trains your perseverance.
Do technology have feelings? We do kinda have an intimate relationship with technology because it affects a person's moods, emotions and feelings.
Prosthetic hands, a robohand for amputees have always been a functional replacement without feeling. Now, the European doctors, scientists and engineers have devised one that can be wired to nerves in the patient's body, transmitting signals to the wearer's brain that mimic the sensations sent by a biological hand. Soon, you'll find robo fingering. Trust me, there can be ANYTHING imaginable in porn.
Then, there is the Funktionide, a pillow-like robot that has special sensors that reacts to human touch to show when it is happy or in love.
This conceptual shape changing robot is used to relieve loneliness, using artificial muscle technology. The Japanese are already looking into creating a webcam that can project a friend's face on it.
Talk about dry humping the bolster, fantasizing about that hottie.
Cuddle up and watch a movie on Sat night.
Potential scene for science fi flick
It natural defense mechanism when it's not in the mood for dry humping.
For all the times i sweet talked my computer, i didn't think i was crazy. It wasn't too far back when we talked to our toys isn't it? I swear i came across a theory paper online that talking to technology/ gadgets IS a proven way to get it working again. However, i am unable to retrieve that paper, no matter how hard i Google. I don't think i dreamt that up or i deluded myself. Crazy people however tend to tell themselves they're not crazy, like drunkards.
But i guess i'm not the only one out there to believes so because there's another 14,083 idiots like me.
I went as far as to tell my laptop "In a moment's time, i will look away so you don't have to be shy in wanting to work again. Just in case you're too egoistic to give in to me."
Then i squeeze my eyes shut and squeeze it tight while chanting "let it work, let it work, please please please...."
Then i gingerly pry my eyes open. So i can resonate with these guys......
