Good and bad news - death and electronics

[sff_corgi_lj]

I realised this morning I'd forgotten to mention the 5+ typhoon 'Nabi' (here, lookit this guy!) who's currently got Saipan in his sites; also, chiroho linked to an act that can only be described as evil -- around 1000 Shia pilgrims in Baghdad died, mostly the elderly and children, from a bridge stampede provoked by a rumour of a suicide bomber.  The bomber, of course, never needed to show up.  Panic did all the work.

Do these creeps, causing harm like this, still dare call themselves 'Muslim'?  They're hypocrites of a neo-con order if they do.


On to what I think is good news, even if it's gadgety and trivial for most, 'cause it'll be expensive for years when they get it all together, but still:

This linked picture is of a 'global'.  It was a prop in the near-future setting of the Roddenberry-based TV series, Earth: Final Conflict.  The global combined the features of a mobile phone, a video camera, a GPS and a streaming video display.  The whole unit snapped together into an elegant extended oval, and was opened horizontally, like the picture shows, to display the screen and activate its features.

I had gadget lust.

This picture, provided by Engadget.com, is a prototype rollup display... bearing a striking resemblance in size and general structrure to the global.

[has small-electronics fit of joy]

They are so close.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

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[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[soothe] Think about the nifty electronic toy that could, theoretically, read every single road and store sign to you on the hoof!

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

wow. adn that wit hspeech afer afew more years ater t's developed. and then blidn peoel wit han exceptional ygod alert system can get a car and DRIVE. hruray for independence.
{{Huggles} Mostly I don't care about gadgets though. lol. this just makes me a lchild-like.

[h311ybean]

I heard about that stampede, too, and it really annoyed me that 1) it was a religious occasion, and 2) what triggered the panic was just a rumor. Grrr.

I've got a couple of other things I want to say about this, but they're mean so I won't.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't have been better by having the non-trampled people blown up, of course. *heavy sigh*

It was a [understatement] mean thing [/understatement] to happen. Vicious... evil....