Posts Tagged newscast
Monday, February 22, 2010 No Comments
This week broke a few very interesting stories. First we have Apple taking the fight against all things titillating and taking the now familiar step of banishing apps from the iTunes store aka super Jobs nirvana land. Seems that someone had the nerve to make apps that had cleavage and bare chested men and such…who [...]
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Tags: 3D, appl, blind, dysphoria, mikethinks, news, newscast, spycam, spying, tech, webcam
Category: 3D, Check it out!, Featured, Mike Thinks News
Friday, November 13, 2009 No Comments
The news this week is about how some schools seem to think that the Amazon Kindle is a bad tech device because its not able to be setup to read aloud to you if you are blind because that initial setup requires navigating through onscreen menues that do not initially read themselved to you. As oppossed to all those other tech devices they think are just fine, like all the computers (which do not come pre-set to be accessable to the blind) and of course the standard paper books, which have absolutely no provision to read themselves to you. I also cover a science story on why you can remember great jokes and stories…but not who you told them to. Could it be that your too concerned about how your coming off to others to be bothered remembering who they are?
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Friday, October 9, 2009 No Comments
There are a few things I think of when I want think about a new cell phone. The 1st is, when the heck is the iPhone coming to a real cell phone carrier in the US? Many other countries have the darn thing on multiple carriers and we here in the US are still hosed [...]
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 No Comments
If your country becomes known throughout the world as the hub for scams, schemes, and all matter of money stealing, laundering, thievery….is it any wonder that you get portrayed in a bad light in the movies or that a commercial pokes fun at these activities? No…its not
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Thursday, September 3, 2009 No Comments
There is a definite disconect between the music industry and many of its fans, and this is not big news. What is news is the amazingly inept ways in which old bands and old media try to become hip and cool, come up with a pretty good idea…yet still manage to find the songle most [...]
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Monday, August 24, 2009 No Comments
So you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…at least not very easily, but according to a new report, you can teach new robots some darn scary tricks. Now a few months ago, the news came out of a robot powered by organic waste. You know, was like old vegetation…incapacitated people, those kinds of things. [...]
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Friday, August 14, 2009 No Comments
Everyone has a run in with the law at some point. Maybe its you being naughty, maybe its your neighbor being loud, or just possibly you need some help, and the person that comes to your aid, is a public servant who far too often gets associates with being the harbinger of doom…ok maybe not [...]
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 No Comments
It happens…not very often when you consider there are hundreds of millions of them out there, but it is a real fact that lithium batteries can go bad. I don’t mean they start pushing over cows, robbing liquor stores and writing bad checks, but they can go bad, and especially if damages (lets say by [...]
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Tags: culture, explode, fun, geek, ipod, news, newscast, science, tech, technology
Category: Featured, Mike Thinks News
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 No Comments
Advertising…we are surounded by it every day, and lets be very clear that there is nothing inhearently bad with advertising. What happens when your promotional department gets a little over zealous? When you go from being a great choice and a great product to the NEST choice and the ONLY way to go if your [...]
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 No Comments
If you havn’t heard yet, theres one good reason to keep those seat belts fassened on a comercial airliner. This week we find out about a gaping hole that opened up 45 minutes into a domestic flight here in the United States, and while no one was hurt, rumours abound about a sudden and dramatic [...]
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