I thought I was going to see my Cognitoys Dino on that site...
Dead Startup Toys
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#192I thought I was going to see my Cognitoys Dino on that site... https://www.wired.com/2015/02/cognitoys-ibm-watson/
I say "my". I mean my daughters'. ahem
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Juicero: Did they really have the technology to get you *fresh* juice from those packs? > ... and had a limited lifespan of about 8 days Ah, so maybe semifresh then. What's the advantage of the packs then? I can buy such juice at the supermarket, no?
The packs were pre-juiced, the Juicero Press just squeezed the juice out of the packs. The advantage of the packs is that they can lock you into their ecosystem and charge you more money for the convenience of using the machine. Razor-and-blades is a common, worthwhile business model... if the razor can be made cheaply enough to give away, and the whole package actually solves a problem. The idea was to basically be…
Hehe, charitable to not call i a outright scam :)
> and the whole package actually solves a problem
The problem of having to carry one less item from the supermarket?
Soda stream is kinda the same, a machine which produce a easily available product directly in you home. But the soda cartridge doesn't expire after a week and can produce alot of fresh soda. So you save alot carrying and it's easy to always have soda since an extra cartridge takes little space. In addition it offer you a choice of how "strong" soda you want.
The only advantage of the juice packs is that they presumable ship it to your door. But it seems very strange if the packs actually are any fresher than presqueezed juice shipped in a regular container (which would've been more convenient). And from the few pictures I saw no water was added to the juice so no volume/weight is saved.
Keurig seems to be coffee capsules which arguable does solve a problem/brings convenience.
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#194Man, that Jibo toy makes me sad. I feel like Amazon realized that they didn't need the screen or the character movement to accomplish 95% of what consumers were interested in: voice-controlled task automation. The Echo and similar devices make more sense, but I would have liked to see what Jibo could have become. In some alternate reality the world is full of expressive robots... and probably doors that sigh when you…
It kinda lives on, Elliq is very similar, but aimed at old people. https://elliq.com/ There's actually quite a few of these that I never knew about, aimed at old people. Not quite sure why. https://roboticsbiz.com/top-seven-companion-and-social-robot...
> https://roboticsbiz.com/top-seven-companion-and-social-robot...
In the context of the "loneliness epidemic" there's something very Black Mirror about this phenomenon.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it, and netbooks as a hardware category, failed, it was because in the end they turned out to not have been worth it. I used a netbook happily for about a year or two, it cost ~$400 if I recall correctly, and afterwards I donated it to my sister who I think used it for a while as well. That's at least $150/yr for a low end product fun but uncomfortable product. After the netbook I upgraded to a Macbook Pro that wa…
I wouldn’t have wanted to take a MacBook round outback Australia for months. A netbook, feh, doesn’t matter if it breaks.
I think you underestimate the build quality of the Macbook Pro, it is quite literally the best laptop ever created, if they produced them now with modern chips and monitors, developers would buy them by the thousands and possibly macos would still be the developers os of choice. I wouldn't hesitate to bring it to the outback. What do you think would happen to a macbook in Australia?
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#197Seems prudent to point out this isn't the product of a disgruntled's weekend project with fancy webdesign. This is a product from MSCHF which is a $100M+ startup [1] (feels like they're getting a bit of an astroturfed free ride of prime PR on HN because folks may not realize who is behind this) [1] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/279769-42
Who's the target audience for this crap? A bunch of Hacker News-esque weekend projects that get a bunch of PR from Vice, WSJ, Verge, etc. every time they release something. Just seems like a team of copycats stealing hackathon ideas, giving them a slight twist, then calls it art and journalists fall all over themselves for it. You won't see these publications writing about similar projects on HN, because they're not…
I had never heard of them before, so I found this article[0] which gives me the impression that they're a 'creative nyc agency / art studio'. No idea how they convinced professional investors to give them millions of dollars, but seems like they create "artworks" and sell them for pretty high prices. I think their target audience is every trust fund kid in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
[0]https://www.theverge.com/21320127/mschf-products-jesus-shoes...
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn’t have wanted to take a MacBook round outback Australia for months. A netbook, feh, doesn’t matter if it breaks.
I think you underestimate the build quality of the Macbook Pro, it is quite literally the best laptop ever created, if they produced them now with modern chips and monitors, developers would buy them by the thousands and possibly macos would still be the developers os of choice. I wouldn't hesitate to bring it to the outback. What do you think would happen to a macbook in Australia?
I assume he's saying that if he needs a minimal laptop, he'd bring something pretty cheap and disposable--as I've done on trips. I've certainly brought a cheap Chromebook on some trips even if I use a MacBook at home.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Netbooks as a technology for the most part" I know people that created books and websites on a netbook, who got though school and business meetings with them. I never seen that for a smartphone.
People absolutely get through school and business meetings with smartphones. If you visit a community college or know someone who teaches at one, a surprisingly high percentage of students do their homework and write papers entirely on their phone. It's kind of amazing.
ergonomically, that sounds like torture to me
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#200Need to add Nikola toy truck