VIEWS FROM A BROAD

Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96.. guess he signed off for good

i guess you could say he was also responsible for couch potatoes and obesity..cuz how many people actually get off their fat asses to change channels anymore?

CHICAGO (AP) — Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

Just ask anyone who's lost a remote.

Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith engineer was 96.

In 1955, if you wanted to switch TV channels from "Arthur Godfrey" to "Father Knows Best," you got up from your chair, walked across the room and turned a knob. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.

Or you could buy a new Zenith television with Flash-Matic tuning. The TV came with a green ray gun-shaped contraption with a red trigger. The advertising promised "TV miracles." The "flash tuner" was "Absolutely harmless to humans!" Most intriguing of all: "You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen."

 

 

FLASHMATIC

 

FACEBOOK: STOCK PLUMMETS BELOW IPO .. UH OHHHHH!!!

(Reuters) - Facebook stock sank on Monday in the first day of trading without the full support of the company's underwriters, leaving some investors down nearly 25 percent from where they were Friday afternoon. Shares ofFacebook (FB_), which made a shaky public debut on Friday, were diving on Monday, breaking below their offering price of $38 each and losing more than 10%.

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10-Year-Old Boy Invented a Video Game For Vision-Impaired People So He Could Play Against His Blind Grandmother

If THIS doesn't make ya smile..then you have no heart... Proves there are still some good kids in this world..

A 10-year-old boy near San Francisco named Dylan Viale has a close relationship with his grandmother, who's been blind for decades.  He loves video games, so he decided to develop a video game for the visually impaired, so he could play against her.  It's kind of like Pac-Man.  You use sound to lead a cartoon duck through a maze, and collect diamonds while avoiding spiders.

 Sherry has been blind for decades. Without sight, she doesn’t get a lot out of Dylan’s favorite pastime: playing video games. She can’t enjoy the titles he loves like Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies. So he decided to make a new game. Just for her.

“[Dylan] wanted to figure out a way that he could share his love for video games with her,” Dylan’s father, Dino Viale, told me in a phone interview. “He thought, ‘How can I create something she can enjoy?’”

So he downloaded GameMaker and started grinding through its tutorials. He read about basic design concepts, learning the ideas behind terms like objects and sprites. He figured out how to create a world that people could play in.

FULL STORY HERE

Mac Flashback Trojan Affecting Thousands: APPLE RUSHES TO FIX! So APPLE SNOBS...who has virus's now?

All i ever hear..from APPLE snobs is..WE DONT GET VIRUS'S.. well guess what..

Ars Technica reported on April 4 that the "Mac Flashback trojan" has returned with a vengeance in recent weeks, now affecting hundreds of thousands of Apple laptops.

Dr. Web explained that a system gets infected with the Mac Flashback trojan "after a user is redirected to a bogus site from a compromised resource or via a traffic distribution system." A specific JavaScript code on the site that contains the virus is then used to load a Java applet, which is how the malware makes its way onto a user's computer.

In response to the problem, Apple released an update on April 3 to patch up the security holes that exist in Java. While all Mac-owners should make sure to update their devices, you can always check to see if your Mac has been infected using your device's Terminal. Directions for this process, as well as for how you can manually disinfect your Mac, have been provided by F-Secure. (You can access the patches via Apple Support, here or here.)

FULL STORY HERE

Here's the New iPhone Case With a Secret Compartment for Condoms VIDEO

Soon, you won't have to keep a condom in your wallet witha big round imprint anymore.  This summer, a new iPhone case with a built-in secret condom compartment is hitting the market.  The cases will sell for $30 on the website OpenaCase.com.

The cases are pretty thin and the condoms are well-hidden in the back.  They're going to come in three colors . . . black, white, and pink... 

gotta Love modern tecnology