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This year a lot of first world problems were solved with innovative consumer technology. How did we ever live without these things?

The remote is so far away all, I have is my phone, iPad, and computer…

Chromecast

● What it is:

○ A form of magic employed by the lazy, it is a tiny dongle that plugs into your TV’s HDMI port and wirelessly connects to most devices.

○ Works with most mobile devices so you never have to look for the remote again.

● What it does:

○ Allows user to

■ Allows you to become one

■ with the couch while you

● Stream Internet

● Browse media

● Control playback

■ …while Netflix judges your questionable taste in entertainment from afar.

● Developed by: Google

● Price: $35

If only my tablet wasn’t so… big: iPad mini

● What it is:

○ The illegitimate lovechild of the iPhone and iPad.

■ “We would not make one of the 7 inch tablets, we don’t think they’re good products, we’d never make one.” – Steve Jobs October 2010

● What it does:

■ Sends stuff to Chromecast

■ Lets you play games

■ Plays and records videos

■ Also, everything else you’d want to do with a tablet. *wink*

● Developed by: Apple

● Price: STARTING AT $399

I want to send a message, but i don’t want to look down: Google Glass

● What it is:

○ An Android computer attached to your head.

○ If THIS doesn’t get you laid, nothing will!

● What it does:

■ Takes discrete pictures

■ Gives directions

■ Translates languages

■ Further isolates you from others

● Developed by: Google

● Price: $1,500

My last console never really understood me:

Playstation 4

● What it is:

○ Gaming console focused primarily on gamer experience.

■ woman’s perspective

● Another gaming system for all the men in your life to care about more than you. And unlike men, it learns user’s likes and dislikes.

■ man’s perspective

● Finally, something focused on my needs.

● What it does:

○ Not only are HiFi graphics the new standard, but it allows games to be pushed to PS Vita.

■ woman’s perspective

● Allows your boyfriend to ignore you on the go by switching over to psVita. They can also broadcasts his fun directly to social media.

■ man’s perspective

● Finally gives me something to do on those long boring dates with my girlfriend.

● Developed by: Sony

● Price: (avg.) $399

I want to play a game, but I don’t want to move. “Xbox On” Xbox One

● What it is:

○ Entertainment system and gaming console.

■ woman’s perspective

● Another gaming console intent on ruining my relationship(s). This one never turns off, instead responds to voice commands 24/7.

■ man’s perspective

● Another bad-a console. That unlike my girlfriend, is always turned on, and actually responds to voice commands.

● What it does:

○ A gaming console that REALLY listens…like, all of the time.

■ woman’s perspective

● This console streams live TV and can switch between Xbox apps through voice commands. Voice recognition inspires the feeling of creepy-but-insanely-cool.

■ man’s perspective

● Plays games and stuff.

● Developed by: Microsoft

● PRICE: STARTING AT $500

Paper should be less “papery” and more “interactive”: PaperTab

● What it is:

○ A flexible e-ink touch tablet that responds and feels like paper. When paper wasn’t good enough, we built electronic tablets. Now we’re making the electronics back into paper again.

● What it does:

○ Allows users to interact with multiple flexible “Tabs” like they would with a stack of papers… because… sure, why not.

■ If you thought keeping track of multple devices was fun, just wait till your one device is made up of multiple pieces!

● Developed by: Collaboration between Queen’s University, Intel Labs and Plastic Logic

● Price: Not yet on the market

If my fork told me to stop eating, maybe I wouldn’t be so fat: HAPIfork

● What it is:

○ A fork. A vibrating, electronic fork. Because THAT makes sense!

● What it does:

○ It vibrates if you eat too quickly. Measures the frequency of forkfuls.

■ Monitors your eating habits because why have self-control when your fork can do it for you?

● Developed by: Jacques Lepine & HapiLabs

● Price: $99

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