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Panasonic R&D 'House of the Future' To Open
Tomo Hiratsuka writes "On January 4 Panasonic opens its new R&D showcase in Tokyo, featuring the usual raft of environmentally friendly products and a take on how to make gadgets more usable for the graying societies of the future. Examples are thin on the ground at the minute but the company's Universal Design (UD) concept could be just the kind of simplification everybody's grandparents have been whining for over the holidays when faced with the space-age remotes on new-fangled DVD players and the like." Details can be found via CBS, and an official release.
This is all fine and good, but don't you think we should have hover cars by now? I want my hover car!
It's a hand twinkler, you dumbass! And I got a bag of whoopass for you!
In other news, a new worm, targetting networked microwaves, was released today. Victims have reported many burnt dinners. Norton Internet Security: Microwave Edition has been released to combat this virus.
I'm sure the windows run Windows, while the fridge has various apple products.
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In other news, Samsung responded by opening 'Housewife of the Future' showcase, featuring the usual raft of environmentally friendly products and a take on how to make women more usable for the graying societies of the future. Japanese noted, that actually they were the first ones.
As the race to future tightens, there has been rumours about Samsung R&D on next generation wives cloned from female college students, but this far prototypes haven't succeed...
Many people don't know this, but ID theory actually proposes that all life on Earth was created by the Japanese.
Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster