Dear inventor people,
When I do phone interviews, I have a tiny microphone in my ear that plugs into a digital recorder. Then I have a headset that goes over that so I can type the interview into my computer (and believe me "type" is a generous designation; it's more like a vague outline chock full of misspelled words and gaps which is more or less why I have to record the whole thing in the first place so I can go back and get accurate quotes). The headset plugs into the phone.
When I get the whole miserable mess wired up, I practically look like Alex in Clockwork Orange as he endures correctional programming.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, what do I want? I want one device, dammit! It will replace my iPod, my phone, my computer, my recorder, my Flip cam, my phone cam, my regular cam, my kitchen stereo, my television, my laptop, my iPad, my electric toothbrush and who knows what else.
I don't want any cards or chargers or cables or adapters or any of the other crap that's choking the hell out of my style as it is. I want one cord that plugs directly into the top of my head.
If you can't figure it out, you're a bunch of candy asses.
Love and good luck,
Erin
ps: Okay, it doesn't have to replace my electric toothbrush.
pss: If you want to call it the iErin, that's okay too.
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AND it has to have a heads-up display on the inside of my glasses so no one else can see, or even know, if I'm using the web;
AND it has to have a virtual keyboard that lets me type out in front of me as if on a full-size keyboard anywhere any time;
AND it all has to plug in to my body's metabolism, so there are no battery issues, just my body working away burning the many many delicious calories I have to eat all day in order to run the entire array.
I was waiting for it, and thankfully, was richly rewarded with the payoff of "bunch of candy asses".
Kidding aside, you've raised some excellent points that I'm sure some super smart bearded kid is toiling away at in Cupertino as we speak.
"iThink...it's not just for morons anymore".
Does it need to iBrate too? I really do need one of these so we can get rid of the power strip just for recharging phones. http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e81a/
See? I knew you people would get it!
I'm up to my ass in work this week and the tools of my trade are driving me bonkers: wires and devices and file transfers ....
grrrrr!
It needs an iBeer holder too.
Erin, stop fooling around and get back to work.
And here I was thinking you were a quasi-Luddite or something. I want less iCrap in my life, not more. I do want a mind/eye activated camera thingy though. That would be sweet.
I think we already have that, Earl, it's called your "memory" or something. Mine doesn't work as well as it used to.
There is a gadget, about 6 inches long, yellow, wood and is pointy on one end. This do-dad will replace about half of your "devices". During the space race, NASA spent zillions developing a "device" that would write under water. The Ruskies just used that yellow. pointy thing a ma bob.
But... a former engineer could figure that out. BTW did you ever see the photo of eb white, typing away on his trusty Smith-Corona, in the boathouse?
I want one, i-everything! Sign me up!
While we're at it, let's just get a holodeck.
MR
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