Found this really neat blog about news words to describe the times we live in. I will be following this one for sure - what better way to understand the world around you than to build a contemporary vocabulary. That I think I can do even if I am lagging by several internet years as far as newest, coolest consumer technology.
Here I am lusting an iPhone only to read that it is so yesterday - Handsolo is the newest coolest thing to have. Clearly, this is not the lag that one catches up with over time - the gulf just grows wider until one such as myself is left behind in the darkness. Thanks to Schott's Vocab, at least I will speak the same language as those in the light.
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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handsolo was April fool joke from Qualcomm like google has been doing for quite sometime...
I guess I fell for that one because this kind of technology is already in the works - I figured someone had just taken the logical next step :)
Here is the TED demo of Pranav Mistry's work :
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
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