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Google X Display Boss: Smartphones, Tablets, Apps Are "Mind-Numbing"

Posted by samzenpus on from the magic's-gone dept.

curtwoodward writes "Stop drooling over that new iPhone. Put away the fancy tablet. Because the real hardcore nerds find that stuff 'boring' and 'mind-numbing,' says Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division at secretive R&D lab Google X. At MIT's EmTech conference, Jepsen said the next generation of 'moonshot' tech is much more exciting and interesting. That includes Google X projects like the driverless car, Project Loon, a stratospheric balloon-based wireless network, and Google Glass."

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  1. The future is, of course, Teledildonics by mveloso · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that other stuff is bullshit. Once you combine teledildonics with direct brain stimulation, it's game over man.

  2. Re:"bored out of her mind"?? by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 5, Funny

    A laptop is a TOOL. A cellphone is a TOOL.

    Pop quiz, Mary Lou Jepsen is .........

  3. Comfortably Numb, or Anesthetisensational?! by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Funny

    What utter bull sack! I'll have you know I hand craft the kerning of my fonts with painstaking attention to detail, and sculpt those myriad of pixel perfect displays and animations a single frame at a time. When it all comes together right in some yuppie's eye, IT IS Exhilarating!

    The only thing more exciting than building those big, beautiful, almost intuitive, displays is making the tools one uses to make them:
    A P fucking I's!!!

    Why, I once met a guy who helped standardize IEEE 1364...
    That's Verilog to you philistines.
    He was a veritable volcano of vivacity whose smile beamed with the brilliance of a billion bacon breakfasts.

    The further down you go the more excited the turtles are!

  4. Re:Overlooking an obvious fact by Gavagai80 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Humans will never be able to drive in the winter, because the windshield will be covered in snow so you can't see out. I'm not seeing how this problem is any harder for a machine, especially since you already rely on mechanical wipers to solve it for you.

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  5. Re: Reener by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, they've noticed the child...why do you think they are initiating video recording?

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  6. Great! by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of working on mind-numbing and boring smartphones and pads, I'll work for balloon-based wireless transponders for those mind-numbing and boring gadgets.
    Hurray!