What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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I love Halloween. I love watching my kids dress up in their favorite costumes running from house to house saying "trick or treat" trying to break last year's candy record. I even secretly wish that just once the Great Pumpkin would show up for Linus in the pumpkin patch. But my love of Halloween doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Especially when it comes to technology. So my technology I'd like to see is the merger of Halloween and technology. I'd start by putting facial recognition cameras and software on my front porch so I could recognize not only… Continue reading...
Have you ever been stuck in your closet trying to figure out what to wear? All of the usual questions cross your mind. Is it warm enough out for this shirt? Does this shirt go with these pants? Didn't I just wear this a couple of days ago? This week's technology I'd like to see solves all of this. It's a digital closet. Think of a big database that stores all of the information about your clothes that can be accessed using a touch screen panel with a built-in scanner in your closet. I think I'd start by tagging all… Continue reading...
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Few things annoy me more than answering the door to my home only to find out the person standing on the other side is trying to sell me something I don't want so that he or she can finally take their dream trip to Disney World. Or that unless I sign a petition right now, the city is going to build a Wal-Mart next door to me. Don't get me wrong. I'm not against door-to-door sales. I can never have enough girl scout cookies or boy scout popcorn. But I like to buy these things from kids in my neighborhood… Continue reading...
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I have loads of technology gadgets. I subscribe to dozens of web sites and receive a constant stream of informational alerts and updates. So why is it that I nearly froze at the soccer field last night? It's bad enough the temperature dropped about 15 degrees but the wind on the wide open soccer field provided the icing on the cake. And there I was in shorts and a t-shirt, freezing. Sure, I have real-time weather updates on my iPhone. I just didn't think to look before I left the house. Sure, I receive email weather alerts for my zip… Continue reading...
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Grocery store checkout lanes are completely automated now. So automated in fact, that many of them no longer require a cashier. You just scan your own items and handle the payment yourself. So why is it that when we create our grocery lists at home, we still do it with pen and paper? The technology I would like to see is a refrigerator with a built-in scanner. As soon as you run out of something, say milk for example, you slide the UPC label under the scanner and just like that, milk is added to your grocery list. Internet enabled?… Continue reading...
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