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So funny I cried a little... Thank you Microsoft

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19th October 2009, 1:09 PM

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel=\"File-List\" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CETOVEN%7E1.TOV%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel=\"themeData\" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CETOVEN%7E1.TOV%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel=\"colorSchemeMapping\" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CETOVEN%7E1.TOV%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> I just heard this on NPR....

Microsoft’s Major R&D announcement this week was just so staggering to me as to think that anyone would sink money into this.

Microsoft has created a digital camera that is worn around the neck with a lanyard. The camera automatically takes pictures when it senses that it has moved. The camera can then automatically store thousands of these images in its internal memory.

But here's where it goes horribly wrong...
The camera is designed and marketed for people with Alzheimer’s (hence the automatic picture taking) so they can later post the pictures on their blogs!!

So let me get this strait, because I've known how debilitating Alzheimer’s is, my whole family had it, all my grandparents died from it, it’s horrible. Microsoft expects me to believe that if I had Alzheimer’s and I woke up, didn't know where I was, or how to dress myself, what my name is, why I'm in a strange place, and finally why there is a strange camera around my neck with thousands pictures of me in it that I didn't remember taking. My first thought is supposed to be, holy cow... I need to post these on my BLOG!!

Thank you Microsoft, you just gave me the cry out loud funny that that will get me through the rest of the day....

Even as I write this I still can't stop laughing.

Well good luck Microsoft, It must be nice to have enough money to completely though away on a project like that. Hay why you’re at it, I need a 2009 VW Beatle that can fly me to the moon this Christmas... You can swing that right?

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19th October 2009, 6:44 PM

It's probably just to take pics of where it was so that you see the environment in case you lost it, making it easier to find again.

kind of a funny feature, if it has bluetooth or wifi for uploading pics wirelessly, why not just have a GPS or a triangulated system that uses cell towers to give you basic location, or a keychain that beeps faster when you're closer to it like a motion detector from the film Aliens? God. Fuck technology! Fuck their stupidity! this is TWO THOUSAND FUCKING NINE AND THEY MAKE A CAMERA THAT TAKES PICTURES WHEN IT MOVES????? I HOPE IT CAUSES CANCER TO CHILDREN AND THEY'RE SUED FOR AN EON

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