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Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video)
Many reporters go to the CES, AKA Consumer Electronic Show (warning - link landing page plays annoying sound) in Las Vegas to see the newest 42.001" LCD TVs, which are 0.001" bigger than last year's 42" models. And there are many boring Windows 8 devices, many of which both run Windows and can display the number 8. These items, along with keynotes from tech gurus like Bill Clinton (We're not making this up!) may be amazing to some news outlets, but not to Slashdot or to Our Man Timothy, who seeks out the new, the bizarre, and the unusual and -- without taking a dime from them -- lets their instigators talk to him about their wares. But it's got to be good stuff, not run of the mill incremental advances. Like the Good Night Lamp(tm), which was invented by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, whose "work has been exhibited," says the goodnightlamp.com/team page, "at the Milan Furniture Fair, London Design Festival, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York." Now the Good Night Lamp people are showing off their product and trying to raise money through Kickstarter. But that's enough from us. We will now hand the microphone to Ms. Deschamps-Sonsino and let her tell you the rest.
Trademarks need to be defended. So if the Good Night Lamp is trademarked, and mentioned somewhere without the (tm) note, the company needs to write a letter pointing out that the name is indeed trademarked and needs to be marked as such. Easier to just put the (tm) on it in the first place.
I'm aging rapidly, I bought a new game and had no idea if my machine was good for it.
Internet connected lamp. When someone turns the big lamp on, little lamps turn on too. So to answer your question, it does nothing useful.
You can click on the Show/Hide Transcript link and it will bypass the video and give you a transcript. Was it really easier to write a post complaining about it?
The problem is that some people don't have pressure balancing valves in their shower, especially in older homes and are too cheep or lazy to get them put in. My house had that problem and it wasn't that hard to fix if you know how to solder copper pipe.
Time to offend someone
"That's about all you need to know about Clinton and the Internet." /. headlines.
Sure, if you are a biased moron and got all your information from
The Clipper CHip was about creating secure communications. In 1993 he talked about it, and it's a good idea. Then the flaws of it were presented, and concerns rolled in and he stopped prompting. It was dead by 1996.
And a president singed an Veto proof bill? shocking. I like how you overlook his pressure to add, what became, section 230.
If you boil any presidency down to a few out of context things, you are being stupid.
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Judging from the tone and content of the "article" above, I'd guess that Timothy Lord discovered magic mushrooms at CES.
Well they throw it in Vegas, so I'd say it's more likely he went out to the Chicken Ranch with a few bucks and finally lost his virginity.