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For those with robot-phobia having nightmares about a terminator/Cylon takeover, you can relax. Or at least have a beer and not worry about it. They actually made a robot that fetches you a beer.
But if we let robots get us beer then what’s next? The next thing we know they’ll want to get married. I say stop the robot agenda! Get your own beer! LOL
Check out this beer fetching robot. (Actually, it’s very cool!)
The iPhone Voice Control is probably the most underutilized feature on the 3GS and 4 (sorry 3G iPhone users). This is especially helpful in an age of increase stricter traffic laws governing cell phone use while driving.
To use Voice Control simply press the home button (the round button just below the screen) for a few seconds. When it is ready for you to speak, your iPhone will vibrate and chime twice quickly.
Here’s a video demo of the iPhone Voice Control.
Dial 1 800 5 5 5 1 2 1 2
Dialing by numbers works remarkably well, even understanding “eight hundred” in addition to “eight zero zero.”
Dial (USERNAME) mobile
Accessing phone numbers from your address book is simple. Use the contact’s name followed by the specific phone number you want to call (work, home, mobile, pager, etc.).
Call (USERNAME)
Call is interchangeable with dial. In this example, just the contact’s name is spoken. If the contact has one phone number, that number will be dialed. Otherwise, the display will show the contact’s name at top plus the text “Multiple Numbers” just below. The iPhone will tell you which phone numbers are available (i.e., “Jennifer, mobile or work?”). Tell it which one you want to call and it will do the rest.
Play album (album name)
Play playlist (playlist name)
Play songs by (artist name)
Play artist (artist name)
These commands provide a variety of ways to select music to play.
Play more like this
This command creates and plays a genius playlist from the current song.
Play music
Play
Pause music
Pause
These commands start or stop playing, just like hitting the play/pause button on an iPod.
Next track
Next
Previous track
Previous
These commands do what you’d expect, behaving like the next and previous buttons on an iPod.
What song is playing?
What’s playing?
Who plays this song?
Who sings this song?
These commands all do the same thing. The song title and artist will be spoken by the iPhone.
Shuffle
This simple command will toggle the state of the shuffle setting. It will also tell you what the shuffle state is to confirm that it is what you want.
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Children are the hope for tomorrow. But let’s face it, hope just doesn’t sell. However, good looks are a hot commodity in any market. So the http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ website has launched an egg and sperm service so that even ‘ugly people’ can bring good looking children into the world. Just purchase some seed from one someone on http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ then you can sleep easy knowing that your little bundle of joy will grow up to be a hottie! And isn’t that the hope of every parent.
Okay, does anyone else find this a bit creepy?
The social networking website http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ describes itself as an “elite online club, where every member works the door” — that is, users can join only after enough members vote them “beautiful” during the 48 hours after their profile is uploaded. In fact, it enforced their strict ban on ugly people by exiling about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the 2009 holiday season. So would this mean that they would have to recall the eggs and sperm from those beauties that have fallen from grace?
I think Stephen Colbert sums it up best in his hilarious segment on beautiful people selling their fertility:
“Order today because all children are beautiful in the eyes of the Lord, but down here on Earth we’ve got higher standards.”
Watch the whole clip here – very funny!
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