Just commenting that I don’t ever remember Kirk wearing a wrist communicator. They always had a hand held communicator that then evolved into a pin that they wore on their uniform above the heart. I think the writer is referring to Dick Tracy’s wrist communicator that was miniature viewscreen as well. Have a great day everyone!
Puzzled in PA… too funny as I was thinking the exact same thing. That said, I loved the Star Trek name drop. I believe its more accurate to say the Star Trek early communicator was the predecessor to the flip phone. Or, as it relates to wear-able tech, perhaps the Borg would have been better to use in the article.
There was an episode in Star Trek TNG called “The Game” where they had Google glass like wearables. Thats about as close to a wearable I remember on ST.
So, a sedentary, protein-eating, aggressive driver will one day find that they are un-insurable. (or in current millennial vernacular, faction-less.)
I can see the pop-up box now on the the on-line application screen:
“Your “submit” button has been grayed-out, don’t bother going any further in the application process. Have a nice day, and may the odds be ever in your favor.”
If you haven’t read George Orwell’s novel,”Nineteen Eighty-Four”,(published in 1949) you might want to do so. With body cameras, go- pros, cell phones with video, drones, cameras at intersections and streets and “wearable devices,” the Big Brother he described in the novel, is alive and well, in our present.
These people are going to get brain cancer with all those waves going through their brain all the time. By the way, the Apple watch will not work on wrists with tats. Hmm, that should eliminate the tat crowd from getting them.
Assumption of risk, my friend. But, I’m sure a PA or other hell hole will allow someone to sue eventually for the emotional pain & suffering of looking like an idiot, without having proper warning labels on the box!
Just commenting that I don’t ever remember Kirk wearing a wrist communicator. They always had a hand held communicator that then evolved into a pin that they wore on their uniform above the heart. I think the writer is referring to Dick Tracy’s wrist communicator that was miniature viewscreen as well. Have a great day everyone!
Puzzled in PA… too funny as I was thinking the exact same thing. That said, I loved the Star Trek name drop. I believe its more accurate to say the Star Trek early communicator was the predecessor to the flip phone. Or, as it relates to wear-able tech, perhaps the Borg would have been better to use in the article.
There was an episode in Star Trek TNG called “The Game” where they had Google glass like wearables. Thats about as close to a wearable I remember on ST.
So, a sedentary, protein-eating, aggressive driver will one day find that they are un-insurable. (or in current millennial vernacular, faction-less.)
I can see the pop-up box now on the the on-line application screen:
“Your “submit” button has been grayed-out, don’t bother going any further in the application process. Have a nice day, and may the odds be ever in your favor.”
If you haven’t read George Orwell’s novel,”Nineteen Eighty-Four”,(published in 1949) you might want to do so. With body cameras, go- pros, cell phones with video, drones, cameras at intersections and streets and “wearable devices,” the Big Brother he described in the novel, is alive and well, in our present.
How did he know 66 years ahead of time???
These people are going to get brain cancer with all those waves going through their brain all the time. By the way, the Apple watch will not work on wrists with tats. Hmm, that should eliminate the tat crowd from getting them.
…the benefit of wearing computer glasses cannot possibly be commensurate with the risk of looking like an idiot
Assumption of risk, my friend. But, I’m sure a PA or other hell hole will allow someone to sue eventually for the emotional pain & suffering of looking like an idiot, without having proper warning labels on the box!