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Could the Star Trek comm badge become a reality?

On By Michel McDonaldIn Products I Like, Science Fiction, TechLeave a comment

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I saw a picture on Facebook today of the Starship Enterprise from the original series, but it was all made of Christmas lights.  That got me thinking about comm badges.  I consider myself to be a nerd, but I don’t have a Star Trek uniform or a comm badge, so perhaps I should either buy one, or turn in my nerd membership card.

As I was browsing Google, it came to me.  I wonder if they make a Bluetooth enabled comm badge that looks exactly like the Star Trek comm badge that actually works with your phone.  Most phones now have voice recognition right?  So I wonder if they have made a comm badge that when you tap it, you can say “Call Aunt Louise” and it places the call.

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Guess what… I found it!  It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but it is a step in the right direction.  This is called “CommBadge” and it works with your iPhone and Android phone using BlueTooth technology.  It isn’t in the shape I was hoping, but how can I expect them to legally use that licensed design without incurring lawsuits?

This is a start up company, so they don’t actually sell these yet, but if they can get their funding with Indie GoGo, then they will be able to make and sell these and perhaps every person in the world will have one.  They have 10 days as of this posting and have only raised $18k of $100k, so unless people help them out, we will probably never see this awesome design.

May I convince you?  They have several different models.  One without anything that just has the regular features, then they have others that have a badge holder for work and one that has the retractable badge holder for perhaps those who need to swipe their badge.  It all does the same thing whether you have the badge holder or not and that is almost exactly what you think the Star Trek comm badge would do.

You press the button (the speaker) and you hear that iPhone Siri ding ding sound and you tell it what you want and it responds without you ever having to take your phone out of your pocket.  Android has something similar to Siri, but they don’t show that in the video (below).  You can tap the CommBadge and say “Call Sally” and it will dial her number and you and everyone else around you can hear Sally answer the phone and talk and you can talk back to her.  I assume when the conversation is over you hang up by pressing the button again.

What is more exciting is that you can chat with your phone just like you normally do.  Like my partner likes to talk to his iPhone to text people.  He will say “Text Mike” and then he will say what he wants to tell me and the words spell out on the screen.  I assume it would do the same thing, without you having to look at it.  Of course Siri’s voice recognition software isn’t exact every time so there might be some confusion when I receive the actual text, but I won’t know until this thing ever comes out.

I am also assuming that you can get directions too, but I don’t think Siri will tell you to go here and turn there and get you to your destination just by using the CommBadge.  I have tried it by looking at the phone and there weren’t any turn by turn directions from Siri, I had to actually look at the screen.  But that would be cool if she gave you a heads up while you were driving without looking.

Anyway, here’s the video, perhaps if you like it you might want to help their cause to get this thing started.  I’m sure whatever you donate, you will get that product if and when they launch it.  I think it’s awesome and I would help if I had the money, but it’s Christmas.  How do they expect people to have money this month?  I mean seriously lol.

Tell me what you think.  Would you use this?  If I had an android phone, I certainly would.

Patriot?

On By Michel McDonaldIn Gay, Gay RightsLeave a comment

I got the most disturbing email today. I don’t know how I got on their mailing list but some how the website Patriot Update started sending me these horrible emails spewing hate towards gay people. It’s hilarious to me that they sent it to a gay person.

This email was very long so I’m not going to paste the entire email and force you to have to read that much text but I will pick out a few things that disturbed me the most. I have created a html page with the entire email here.

First of all they have a big red ALERT because it needs your immediate attention! Because gay people are so horrible so they need to ALERT you with a big red graphic.

It starts out with this:

Dear fellow American,

The Radical Homosexuals claim you and other pro-family Americans actually now support same-sex marriage, special job preferences for homosexuals and promotion of the homosexual lifestyle in schools.

The radical homosexuals? Special job preferences and promotion of the gay lifestyle in schools? What?

  • Special job rights for homosexuals and lesbians . Businesses may have to adopt hiring quotas to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every homosexual fired or not hired becomes a potential federal civil rights lawsuit.Radical homosexuals will terrorize day care centers, hospitals, churches and private schools. Traditional moral values will be shattered by federal law.

Businesses have already had the quotas for minorities so why is it that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to fit that category? Gay people are part of the minority. And being fired because you are gay is ILLEGAL so yes, there is going to be a lawsuit, deal with it.

Terrorize day care centers, hospitals, churches and private schools? How? How the hell are gay people going to terrorize those places?

  • Same-sex marriages and adoptions . Wedding-gown clad men smooching before some left-wing clergy or state official is just the beginning.You’ll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to “pick out” a little boy for themselves.

First of all, men who are going to marry another men aren’t going to be wearing wedding gowns you morons. They are both going to be wearing suits. So that statement right there is offensive. And they will obviously get a minister who is gay themselves or gay friendly, they aren’t going to force an anti-gay person to marry them.

You won’t see men hand-in-hand “skipping” anywhere, we’re not 10 years old. Skipping to adoption centers to “pick out” a little boy. Is that a joke? Are they trying to say that all gay people want to corrupt little boys? No, if anything gay people would want to adopt any sex child, girl or boy, we don’t discriminate because they aren’t a boy and by saying that they are implying that gay people are going to adopt little boys to molest them.

  • Homosexual advocacy in schools . Your children or grandchildren will be taught homosexuality is moral, natural and good. High school children will learn perverted sex acts as part of “safe sex” education.With condoms already handed out in many schools, Radical Homosexuals will have little trouble adopting today’s “if it feels good do it” sex-ed curriculum to their agenda.

WHAT?!?!? These people are so out of touch it amazes me.

Ok if you want to read the rest of the hatred go ahead. It sounds so much like a plot in a novel where all gay people are evil vampires sucking blood from the vein of society. They have a survey in MANY links and banners in the email begging you to tell them how you feel and then begging for money.

The whole email made me nauseous.

I unsubscribed because I didn’t want their emails to begin with and when they asked why I told them that I don’t agree with their hatred towards gay people and they make me ashamed to be an American. Because their name is “Patriot” Update.

The definition of patriot to me is someone who loves their country not someone who hates gay people. This website is an anti-gay website, not a pro-American website. They are so out of touch with who gay people are and they probably don’t want to know the truth about gay people. All they care about is that they don’t like them and they will do whatever it takes to stop gay people from having the same rights as everyone else does under the constitution of the United States of America.

No, they are not patriots at all. They call the gays “radicals” but they are the radicals. Get a life!

Oh by the way, I took that survey and all the answers were already set to NO so that all you had to do was submit.  I changed them all to YES and submitted the survey and got an email saying thank you for supporting us.  Idiots lol.