• Social networking can lead to increased isolation, health problems, and harmful immune responses. So does that mean we shouldn’t post this link to Facebook?
• They tried to make us go to virtual rehab but we said no, no, no.
• No bird is too extinct to show up on a dinner plate somewhere!
• New manually dexterous robots promise to save all the world’s problems. Well, not really, but they can play rock, paper, scissors.
• One nice thing about the economic collapse: The U.S. couldn’t afford to build massive space weapons, even if it wanted to!
The iCEphone, developed by a company unfortunately called The Medical Phone, is a strange mish-mash of features and one of the weirder items to be seen at this year’s CES. First, the thing has a unique three-part form factor, with three slabs attached side-to-side by funky hinges that let the slabs fold either way–like a Z or like an S–and are stiff enough to hold the phone in any of those configurations (see the video if this doesn’t make any sense). The phone is ruggedized (including rubber bumpers), fairly large and bulky, and comes in bright colors like fuchsia and orange. It has built-in medical monitoring, a touchscreen, a trackpad, gaming features like multiple “triggers,” and a full qwerty keyboard, including the bonus Windows keys that let you perform such feats as the famous ctrl-alt-delete.
What, you may wonder, the hell is going on here?
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