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A Linux Machine For Your Collar
MadSaxon writes "gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description of a very small Linux machine based on the PXA255: 20 x 80 mm, '64MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash, MMC/SD/SDIO slot, and power management. It takes 3.6V - 5.0V power, and has been drawing under 200 mA.' It weighs less than 12g sans battery, and 'can fit in a collar undetected.' Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?"
Actually I keep waiting for the opposite to be released. I think it was a NOVA episode that had this little rat pressing a bar, which would in turn stimulate the pleasure center in his brain (needless to say, the rat was a little white blur as he pressed that bar, even forgoing eating if I recall correctly. Think one long continual orgasm). Anyway, I keep waiting for some company to release something like this for people. The upside would be things like exercise could be made to be lots more fun, but I suppose that people sitting in their chairs at home pressing a button until they starve to death might keep something like this from making it past the FDA.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Actually there is a company that has designed such a device for women, however it requires a surgical implant to work (it's controlled by a remote). Last I heard they where having trouble getting it to market because they couldn't find any willing test subjects.
I bet your one of those peeple who pronownce "nu-cu-ler" wrong, to.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Can I strap this thing to my taint to measure humidity? It gets pretty swampy down there on hot days...
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.