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Xybernaut Patents Collar Computer
igargoyle writes "Wearable Computer manufacturer, Xybernaut, has encouraged the kludge that is the patent office by patenting collar based wearable computers. Besides being extremely vague, the whole thing sounds likes the Slashdot article, 'A Linux Machine For Your Collar.' There are many references to this idea, and computer collars have been used as nomadic radios and animal tracking devices before. Please help encourage this company to stop wasting taxpayer's money and encourage innovation instead of preventing it."
FACT: This is the stupidest un-news that I ever read here.
Fuck you !
Smile, don't click...
Timothy, what's with all these robo-pet stories today? Got something you want to tell us?
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While you're bringing shit out how about bringing out a dictionary? Goodness.
Great idea!
That would mean that you use your dick, errr, "joy stick" to control the computer.
Read the patent filing? Nobody even reads the article!
Please mod down if I'm coming out of the woodwork. I can't reach ansarixprize.org, or news.bbc.co.uk. It looks like a DNS failure. I can reach other sites okay (obviously), including ones I'm fairly certain weren't in my company's DNS cache (i.e. arabicnews.com). Is anyone else noticing this problem. Obviously, it's frustrating, as I'm looking for streaming video of today's X-Prize attempt.
But if you guys show up wearing tinfoil body wrap and bouffant hairdos, I'm gonna hurl.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
In Soviet Russia collars wear you !!
You might want to read that again.
Sort of not really. Warfighter is a term created to denote all active military personel.
Thus, while soldiers are warfighters, the term "warfighter" also includes (for the U.S.) sailors, airmen, and marines.
The difference may be academic to you, but it matters to the actual people represented above. They're proud of their branch, and the term "soldier" technically refers just to the Army.
If you don't believe me go find a Marine and call him a sailor.
- Sig
I'm a Marine, and nobody with a sense of self-preservation calls a Marine a sailor.
"What I cary in this box is your utter subjugation."
Nah. It's all them hamburgers that make women's butts look big.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Anyone else have a vision of catholic priests visiting michael jackson's neverland ranch and strapping one of these on as they tour the place?
I didn't think so.