December 27th, 2009

Did you know there’s a new app for the iphone that if you hold it up on the street you’re standing it will give you info on your surrounding area – literally you’re watching the video of the street and it flashes information on restaurants, etc. And there’s a new product I heard about (I’m addicted to podcasts so bombard my brain with useless info every time I’m in the truck) in which your cell phone transmits info to your eyes via contact lenses – similar to a HUD in a plane. This would be good for me because I don’t remember anyone’s name, etc. and it could remind me – “this is your mom” and warn me to make a comment when staff changes something about them that I’m supposed to comment on. We had a staff member that apparently changed her hair from auburn to flaming red. She drove me nuts so I always considered myself lucky if I could refill my coffee in the break area and get away from there before she stepped out of her office to begin a mundane conversation about everything in her life. Apparently she stopped talking to me for a week because everyone else had commented on her wonderful new hair-on-fire look except me – I just thought it was a good week. Anyway, a device like that would’ve noted the drastic difference in hair color and given me a suitable compliment as well as topics to avoid. Perhaps in the future it will provide a radar-like heads-up so that I can know which hallways to take to get to the coffee without bumping in to people I don’t want to talk to.