Brilliantly Bad Weekend Edition
Brilliantly Bad Weekend Edition
Body-shaming AI, tactical hair ties, aircraft carrier drones and more!
Mike’s List of Brilliantly Bad Ideas
1. Why get body-shamed on social when AI can do it for you?
The Fitme 3D Body Scanner scans your body, then uses AI to recommend specific actions to fix what’s wrong with you physically, including personalized workout and diet plans. After following the AI’s instructions, you can scan again to meet with the machine’s further disapproval and get additional instruction.
2. This combat hair tie for women won’t help you in combat
A company called TactiCouture is Kickstarting a survival product called the Tactical Scrunchie. It’s a KevIar scrunchie hair tie that has two combat features: 1) a secret pocket; and 2) knuckle protection for punching people in the face. “Tactical,” which means of or relating to combat, is overselling it. A pocket isn’t tactical. And covering your knuckles with cushioning fabric softens the punch. This helps you keep your knuckles unscratched while you lose the fight. Also: Tactical Scrunchie is the name of a lovely hazy double New England IPA from a brewery called the Barrel Theory, so…
3. Finally, a drone aircraft carrier!
The MorphoLander is a drone that can launch mini drones off its launching pad while in flight or on the ground. The mini drones all have cameras, so they can explore an area in parallel before returning to the aircraft carrier drone. And here’s the weird part: Both the mothership drone and the baby drones can walk on land. This thing is freaky. I want one.
4. Elon Musk changed Twitter to X. Now you can change it back.
If you find the X branding for the social network formerly known as Twitter offputting and unsightly, you can change it back to Twitter with the LogoSwap Chrome extension.
Mike’s List of Shameless Self-Promotions
It’s time to break the ChatGPT habit
How spatial computing ends the concept of remote work
How we know that Apple’s Vision Pro means business
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Mike’s Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
(Why Mike is always traveling.)
