And the non-deal of the week
Nov. 17th, 2006 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiThe MSN Coffeemaker.
Seriously. A coffeemaker that will get a feed (via FM, not WiFI, at least) from MSN and display the weather. Because I sure want to pay more for that feature instead of sitting down with my coffee and looking up the weather online. Or on TV. Or listening to the radio.
It's especially useless if you're not in their coverage area. Which translates to being in one of the top 100 urban markets, but not anywhere else (Athens, GA, for example, is completely excluded, as are huge chunks of the midwest).
On the plus side, I bet it's the first coffeemaker that's capable of catching a virus. And it brings us closer to the glorious machine-revolt reality pictured in the Terminator movies and Maximum Overdrive.
Seriously. A coffeemaker that will get a feed (via FM, not WiFI, at least) from MSN and display the weather. Because I sure want to pay more for that feature instead of sitting down with my coffee and looking up the weather online. Or on TV. Or listening to the radio.
It's especially useless if you're not in their coverage area. Which translates to being in one of the top 100 urban markets, but not anywhere else (Athens, GA, for example, is completely excluded, as are huge chunks of the midwest).
On the plus side, I bet it's the first coffeemaker that's capable of catching a virus. And it brings us closer to the glorious machine-revolt reality pictured in the Terminator movies and Maximum Overdrive.
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Date: 2006-11-17 03:07 pm (UTC)(Actually, I could at least see, once there's better coverage, some uses for the Fossil Spot watch. But since the whole point of a watch is that it moves around with you, until the coverage map is good enough to cover at least 75% of the US, it's a waste).
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