Nowadays, there’s definitely a long tail for social networks. So, it was no surprise to hear that there was an app that allowed wine enthusiasts to connect to one another. As someone who enjoys a glass or two – when I’m out of beer - I figured I’d give it a shot and see how many winos I could connect with.
What’s inside the bottle:
The Grapevine basically revolves around 3 major themes: news, personal wine journal, sharing wine experiences with friends.
Wine Geek – This tab contains articles and tips around wine. At launch there were 5 articles. I’m not sure if this is original content or is borrowed from another blog or periodical. I did find the content to be well written and educational (ex. “Find Wines on a Budget”).
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You can’t stay Yonge forever – and that’s why I used the Liquid Scale app to remove the longest street in the world from my picture. All I had to do was load the image inside of Liquid Scale, paint Yonge street in ‘red’ to indicate that it was one of the first things that should be cropped out, and then I just pinched the photo together — literally squeezing the disgustingly long street right out of the picture.
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Welcome to SIMsystem, which is being hailed as the world’s first electric underpants. I can scarcely believe that this is the first electric pair of undies. Hasn’t someone made a pair of electric underwear to keep your torso warm?
Anyway, the SIMsystem is designed for people who live in rest homes, and the workers who love them. Or, if nothing else, must work with them and change their Depends every once in a while. The SIMsystem uses this sensor strip in the underwear that will detect moistness, and then will send a report via text message, or even over an intercom.
Hopefully the intercom message won’t be something like: “Mrs. Fields has just wet her pants again”. Perhaps something like “Code 142 for Mrs. Fields” will do until everyone learns the code.
You might be wondering how the SIMsystem communicates wirelessly, and it has nothing to do with Bluetooth, bur rather Zigbee.
I suppose we are looking at rest homes of the future who have daily “bladder reports”. It is too bad that these cannot be put into diapers. After all, it is the babies that sometimes get neglected with their diaper changes. However, give it time, and I’m sure that this SIMsystem will get off the ground.
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While I was at CTIA Wireless 2010, I saw a booth that had something to say about AirPower.
AirPower is some new technology developed by RCA, and it is designed to steal the energy from the Wi-Fi signals in the air.
I had no idea that those Wi-Fi signals could actually carry any energy, but apparently it only takes five to six hours to juice up one of these AirPower batteries if it is within close proximity of a Wi-Fi hotspot.
These AirPower chargers will be available sometime before the holidays, and they intend to market them as emergency back-up power supplies.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t see why we can’t use this AirPower power supply all of the time. Perhaps we could put smaller versions of these AirPower batteries on our cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, and other forms of mobile devices.
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