Tech Tuesday 04/22/19 – “It’s warm enough to swim in my pool!” Edition
Yes, I am feeling snarky today, why do you ask?
TT01 – I can see this being the genesis for a kind of headgear we all start wearing as we get older, maybe for a half hour at night. Provided we remember where we put it…
TT02 – Speaking of brains, rumor has it, shortly after this news broke, GOP strategists were contacting the Yale scientists, wondering if the pig would be willing to run for office, muttering something about how it’s been working for them in recent elections…
TT03 – I kinda want a laser tattoo. It’ll just be three little words… pew, pew, pew
TT04 – “The human body itself is a large computer. Its metabolism has drawn on the computing power of trillions of cells since time immemorial.” And like most of the computers we have, it’s largely used for porn…
TT05 – As I work on my WIG design, hybrid power is the path I am planning on taking.
TT06 – Solar panels that can work in the snow! A dream come true!
TT07 – Now you can have a new heart printed for you, just like that. Granted, it doesn’t actually pump blood yet, but at least now you know what to get that heartless bastard in your life.
TT08 – And just in case they aren’t wholly appreciative, you can go for the cold-hearted option.
TT09 – Laying off the snark for a moment, this is good news for MS sufferers. Hopefully it goes somewhere.
TT10 – Finally, Kia has produced an automobile that has me take notice. I gotta a thing for doors that open in non-traditional ways, especially butterfly, gull wing, and scissor. The Kia is using a variant of the swan style. I blame Back To The Future and other such shows from the 80’s…
TT11 – Doesn’t say how much compression is needed, so I wonder if I can just make the kid jump up and down on it for a few hours, to keep the house cool?
Photo by verticaldoorsincusa 
TT11: No link…
TT10: I look at the space needed to open the doors and think, “If we were actually going to get out of the car after parking it, I could only put one in my two-car garage, in the middle.”
TT01: Not just us oldsters. Ken Jennings, the current record holder on Jeopardy, was asked how he would do against James Holzhauer, the guy currently on a hot streak. Ken pointed out that he was 29 when he set the records, and now at 44, has reduced cognitive and memory performance compared to his younger self.Report
TT11 – Fixed. I know damn well I had a link in there, among the words in the first part of the sentence that were obviously missing.
TT01 – Scissor doors are the ones that offer the best option for tight parking.Report
The articulated intelligent gull-wing rear doors on the Tesla X are interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWWkVWUxisReport
yow. Are those hingelines all actuated by motors? That’s incredibly expensive and it’s gonna break in about a year…Report
If you can afford a Tesla Model X, you probably don’t care.Report
TT01: I turned 50 this year and holy wow has my memory and mental processing-speed gone to heck relative to what it was 20 years ago. Also my mental stamina, and just my stamina in general for things like prolonged periods of work or attention.
I probably need one of those headsets. Or maybe Ritalin. Or maybe just more sleep, IDK.
The most worrying thing is when I am in front of a class and I “lose” a word….like a word I use regularly, describing some phenomenon I teach about, and I CANNOT THINK OF THE SPECIFIC TERM. I do this with people’s names, too, though I’ve *always* done that with people’s names – if you press me “What’s that guy’s name” I won’t be able to tell you but if you wait ten minutes until I am relaxed and thinking of something else, it will come to me.Report
The thing I miss the most is the ability to focus sharply on the task at hand for hours at a time, ignoring most any sort of distraction around me. That faded out around age 60.Report
TT10: Interesting that Kia’s concept still assumes that the standard use case for a car involves back-seat passengers and a separate trunk.Report
TT04: Don’t forget cute cats. While I lack accurate records, I bet I’ve spent more “computer” hours snuggling cats than snogging people.Report