Some product ideas
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Edible scrabble tiles. Different chocolate flavors. Heated mouse pad. For those cold winter coding days and nights. Oops, already done. 10 Best Heated Mouse Pads on the market in 2021[^] A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject. Maybe with a rotatable shuttle. Found this.[^] [edit] oops. I thought I was in the lounge. Well, the heated mouse pads are cool.[/edit]
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Edible scrabble tiles. Different chocolate flavors. Heated mouse pad. For those cold winter coding days and nights. Oops, already done. 10 Best Heated Mouse Pads on the market in 2021[^] A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject. Maybe with a rotatable shuttle. Found this.[^] [edit] oops. I thought I was in the lounge. Well, the heated mouse pads are cool.[/edit]
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsLounge Good one :laugh: The odds are that if you thought of it, then it probably already exist somewhere or will soon. That is the nature of progress. Although it is irritating when a company advertises something as new tech., when in fact it is old tech in a new package.
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Edible scrabble tiles. Different chocolate flavors. Heated mouse pad. For those cold winter coding days and nights. Oops, already done. 10 Best Heated Mouse Pads on the market in 2021[^] A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject. Maybe with a rotatable shuttle. Found this.[^] [edit] oops. I thought I was in the lounge. Well, the heated mouse pads are cool.[/edit]
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsMarc Clifton wrote:
A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject.
I can see that physical widgets with Braille writing would be useful for the blind, but why would the rest of us need them? Are there really so many cases where you need to use electronics without looking at the panel?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject.
I can see that physical widgets with Braille writing would be useful for the blind, but why would the rest of us need them? Are there really so many cases where you need to use electronics without looking at the panel?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
I'm into such discussions all the time: Why should we waste resources on braille marking of buttons in elevators when when no blind people are expected to enter the house? Why waste resources on wide doors when no wheelchair user is living in the apartment? Why should we abandon door sills when you can simply step over it? And so on. So you reject visits from grandma, who with her walker will stumble over a door sill? Your old friend who ended up in a wheelchair at age 35 after a car accident cannot enter your apartment. Your child loosing her eyesight last new year after a fireworks accident will not have access to any of your entertainment systems. "We'll take care of that when it happens". Sure. When you make friends with a wheelchair user, you will widen your doors. I might believe it. When your MIL begins stumbling in anything that is not flat, you will remove the door sills. I might believe it. When your daughter goes blind, you will replace all sorts of controls with braille marked ones. Well, that one I am more tempted to believe that you might actually do. (Besides, visually handicapped people have an impressing ability to adapt to lack of adaptations!) If your son ends up in a wheelchair, the risk of you having to break up from your local neighborhood to find another suitable house is significant. This concept of 'Universal Access', that the physical environment at the outset should be accessible to everyone regardless of physical disabilities, has been gradually accepted, at least in some cultures. Including UA concept from the very beginning usually has a small fraction of the cost of later remodeling. Often, it will also improve the quality for users who are not absolutely 'dependent' on them. Say, signs that can be read without straining the eyes of a seventy year old won't hurt a thirty year old, even if he doesn't 'need' that readability. Removing the door sills that make your MIL stumble also makes it easier for you to pull the vacuum cleaner from one door to another. And so on. Currently, I am not in need of no special adaptations of my house. With the planned remodeling, I want to ensure that I can continue living here, in my own home, even if I end up as physically handicapped. Repeatedly, I have to defend it: Lots of people see no value of preparing for eventualities. I do. Even if my friends say things like "why would the rest of us need them?"
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Edible scrabble tiles. Different chocolate flavors. Heated mouse pad. For those cold winter coding days and nights. Oops, already done. 10 Best Heated Mouse Pads on the market in 2021[^] A physical widget that has real buttons like the old VCR style play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, eject. Maybe with a rotatable shuttle. Found this.[^] [edit] oops. I thought I was in the lounge. Well, the heated mouse pads are cool.[/edit]
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsAnd do not forget Dogbert's great mousepad upgrade: Dilbert Comic Strip on 1996-12-29 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
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