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@Jaloopa said in Internet of shit:
@masonwheeler said in Internet of shit:
The recipe called for one-and-one-quarter cups of flour
Including that in the anecdote might have helped TBH
It's right there:
@masonwheeler said in Internet of shit:
one one-quarter cup of flour!
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https://www.indiegogo.com/products/yono-in-ear-ovulation-predictor--2
I really want to get one for myself, just to see what it would say about my ovulation period.
TIL female humans physically get almost one degree warmer during menstruation. Wow amaze much heat so accurate.
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@YONO Labs said:
In-Ear Ovulation
Ewww.
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@masonwheeler My brother made me soup once when I was sick and we were kids. He opened the can, poured it into a pot, put it on high, and promptly wandered off to play Zelda. I remembered about it a couple hours later.
We tried to save it by adding more water. That uh... did not go over well.
Then there was the time I was going to make a fortune selling Freez-E-Cheeze: The Frozen Cheese Snack. We took some leftover cheese from my Lunchables, and put it in the freezer. It... became cold. We decided to make it into something more like a popsicle, maybe we needed to melt it first? So we put it in a pot on the stove.
That shit acts weird when you try to melt it. I became convinced it had come to life and ran off to let Mom clean it up. She was not happy.
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I wasn't quite sure where this should go: "Internet of Shit" (well, it's not IP enabled so not exactly internet), "Parenting Advice" (the thread doesn't say it can't be bad advice) or "Shit Posting" (a @lucas1 thread, so certainly on topic there). I'm sure the next version will have an integrated web server though so that's literally the Internet of Shit.
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@LaoC Nice find.
New parents are faced with many conundrums and one of the most nerve-wracking is how to check a diaper without waking a sleeping baby.
No it isn't. Unless there's a medical issue (as was the case for the guy who invented this) you just let them sleep. Time enough to change them when they wake up and complain.
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@Yamikuronue said in Internet of shit:
wandered off to play Zelda
Adults know to set a timer to remind us to break off from the game and go and check. ;)
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
Adults know to set a timer to remind us to break off from the game and go and check. ;)
Yep. Then you just have to discipline yourself to cut the "oh, I'll just do this one more action first" part short after no more than, say, 5 or 10 minutes...
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New parents are faced with many conundrums and one of the most nerve-wracking is how to check a diaper without waking a sleeping baby.
What conundrum? If the baby smells like sewage, the diaper needs changing.
Korean startup Monit’s new Bluetooth sensor wants to make sniff tests a thing of the past by alerting parents as soon as their baby’s diaper is soiled.
Is a quick sniff really so bad that a technological solution is needed?
Later on, the sensor can be turned into a portable air quality and temperature monitor, extending its usefulness.
Oh, so it's a solution looking for a new problem to solve.
Small, flat and round like a macaron, the Monit sensor helps parents who are worried about changing diapers in time to avoid accidents and skin irritation.
You can solve those problems by buying quality diapers instead of cut-price garbage.
Founder Tony Park began working on Monit because one of his two daughters suffered from atopic dermatitis and he needed to make sure she was always in a dry diaper.
Huh. OK, I'll admit, in this case, the solution makes a lot of sense.
He submitted his idea to C-Lab, an incubator program for projects by Samsung Electronics employees
Makers of the self-immolating tablet? Wise choice, evidently.
In all seriousness though, outside of a small number of legitimate use cases, I don't really see this idea taking off. Then again, it's not exactly the worst thing around either.
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@RaceProUK Yep. The whole thing is basically "I had this atypical need and made this thing to solve it, now let's see if I can sell it to other people." There's nothing wrong with that in itself, and if nothing else he should be able to find a niche market among people with similar issues, but presenting it as "this is a problem all new parents have"* is at best disingenuous and at worst a deliberate marketing ploy to get inexperienced parents to pay $$$ for stuff they don't really need, in the name of giving their baby the best possible care.
Ordinarily I'd put it down to standard marketing tactics, but trying to take advantage of new parents irks me particularly because new parents are invariably sleep-deprived and confused and trying to make everything up as they go along, and thus more vulnerable to this sort of exploitation.
* ETA: also, the "one of the most nerve-wracking" part is just bullshit.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Internet of shit:
a deliberate marketing ploy to get inexperienced parents to pay $$$ for stuff they don't really need, in the name of giving their baby the best possible care.
As the parent of a 1 year old, there's a shit load of that. We managed to avoid a lot of it but we still have a decent amount of stuff that looked like brilliant, lifesaving ideas and ended up being a bit shit/totally useless/actively dangerous
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@LaoC Shit posting is just non-PC jokes you fucking dullard.
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@TimeBandit Something like that.
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At least it doesn't squeeze the diaper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ne1rtMbZQg
Coming soon, the smart pillow!
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@Atazhaia $300? Strange, I seem to own a non-"smart" alarm clock slash wakeup light for $90 and have it right now without fear of lithium batteries burning me during my sleep.
Also, you can at least point the lamp whereas this thing seems to point its LEDs to the ceiling.
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@JBert Most radios / clocks in the UK at least will sync the time correctly.
My car clock did that and I have basically a radio, clock and thermometer.
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@Atazhaia Also, bonus props for that quip near the end:
Kickstarter has come to a new low: a pillow...
Filed under: Paging @Groaner
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@RaceProUK wait... "centerpiece"... So it doesn't do anything?
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@Yamikuronue said in Internet of shit:
@masonwheeler My brother made me soup once when I was sick and we were kids. He opened the can, poured it into a pot, put it on high, and promptly wandered off to play Zelda. I remembered about it a couple hours later.
My roommate managed to fall asleep when cooking borscht. Proper, red borscht. It didn't burn, instead the kitchen floor ended up like someone was murdered there and dragged into the pot.
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@cartman82 said in Internet of shit:
@RaceProUK wait... "centerpiece"... So it doesn't do anything?
It's... a bluetooth speaker, I guess? And a light? And... uh... you can play that old salt shaker blowjob prank on people with it?
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@Maciejasjmj said in Internet of shit:
@cartman82 said in Internet of shit:
@RaceProUK wait... "centerpiece"... So it doesn't do anything?
It's... a bluetooth speaker, I guess? And a light? And... uh... you can play that old salt shaker blowjob prank on people with it?
It's a MULTI-SENSORY DEVICE! You can see it, touch it, and if someone throws it at something else, hear it!
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@ben_lubar is it a smart salt pot? I think it's a smart salt pot that plays music and has leds.
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Stretch goal: A second one for pepper and stereo sound
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@Atazhaia said in Internet of shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ne1rtMbZQg
Coming soon, the smart pillow!
That's really weird, one of the guys sounds kinda like Blakeyrat....
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@RaceProUK said in Internet of shit:
please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke please tell me it's a joke
It's a duck.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
That's really weird, one of the guys sounds kinda like Blakeyrat....
Blakeyrat is a fan of them iirc. But I am also pretty sure he's not one of them, considering that also from what I remember they live in completely different parts of the US.
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@dkf But does it weigh the same as a duck?
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@masonwheeler Perhaps, but it doesn't look like a witch…
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Have anyone done dildos ? Cause this is just great:
Damn, i hit the reply button a post, sorry Maciejasjmj
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@swayde Surprisingly, it wasn't among the first posts:
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@swayde Dildos should be made of silicone, not silicon!
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@swayde If the vibrator measures temperature, and it's inside your body, doesn't that technically make it medical data?
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@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
If the vibrator measures temperature, and it's inside your body, doesn't that technically make it medical data?
Probably not, since it's not a licensed/approved medical device?
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@asdf May still be protected as such.
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@anonymous234 I'd hope so, but who knows.
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I sincerely hope that they get ahold of some of my friend's transcripts, so they wonder why that person adds 55 gallon drums of sex lube to their shopping cart.
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@raceprouk said in Internet of shit:
Swastikas and far-right images
NOES HILTER WUZ LEFTY U IDIOTZ
</polygeekery>
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@atazhaia said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
That's really weird, one of the guys sounds kinda like Blakeyrat....
Blakeyrat is a fan of them iirc. But I am also pretty sure he's not one of them, considering that also from what I remember they live in completely different parts of the US.
Blakeyrat lives on the left coast. Slowbeef lives in New Jersey. Diabeetus lives in Alabama.
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@twelvebaud said in Internet of shit:
Blakeyrat lives on the left coast
But only if you're facing north. If you're facing south, he lives on the right coast.
INB4 Blakey posts "Damn right I live on the right coast!"
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@twelvebaud said in Internet of shit:
Slowbeef lives in New Jersey. Diabeetus lives in Alabama
And which coast are those on?
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@jaloopa Right and south.
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@jaloopa said in Internet of shit:
@raceprouk said in Internet of shit:
Swastikas and far-right images
NOES HILTER WUZ LEFTY U IDIOTZ
</polygeekery>Seems the BBC agrees or they would have said, "Swastikas and other far-right images."
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