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Kinunie says "So are you generally back online again now? I heard you were having an unpleasant time with RSI, but nothing more."
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa was, and took a lot of time off work, and is now okay.
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa has to be careful, but that's it.
Kinunie icks. That rather sucks. Have you met Dasher, by the way? ( http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ )
You say "I'm generally back online -- and generally only on Brave and the Bold. I've got Cosmic Boy and Natasha Irons there, and I'm apping Sandy Hawkins."
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa nopes! Looks!
Kinunie says "It's rather nice for text entry when you don't want to use wrists in typing position, and when you get good at it you can write a lot with very little effort. It's rather like playing a video game, but text entry."
Kinunie says "Oh, and if you do play with it, give it lots of training text as it gets really quite spookily good at prediction once it learns how you write."
You say "Holy /crap/ wow!"
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa squints, checks to see if it plays well with WinCE.
Kinunie says "It's really neat. Once you get to about speed 3.5 and pushing it hard you start to get into a kind of hypnotic trance with it and words just appear."
Kinunie says "Not sure; it works on iPAQ systems, if that's the one?"
You say "No, this is a really old Sharp palmtop."
Kinunie says "Perhaps not, then. Various friends of mine are madly porting it to new platforms all the time."
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa wishes I had an eyetracker and could do it with that, because hot damn, the next step is cyberpathy.
Kinunie pokes a developer on IRC to see if there's a WinCE version. And yes, absolutely - it does work with headmice too, which is *cute*.
Kinunie says "Wearable computers, eye trackers, and wireless - ultimate geekery."
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa wishes I had the money, /so/ bad. :D
Kinunie knows a bloke who was working on wearables for small money, but I think his project is a bit in limbo at the moment ( http://the.earth.li/~martin/ )
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa also wishes I hadn't given away my Virtual Boy, but that's beside the point.
Kinunie says "He had a USB waistcoat I think in his last version, and a capmounted display."
Kinunie says "Have you seen MIT's latest offerings?"
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa cracks up! A USB waistcoat...
Kinunie says "Yup! You plugged things into the pockets, or onto the shoulder."
You say "God. This conversation just killed me. Do you mind if I blog it?"
You say "It was the USB waistcoat did it. ;D"
Kinunie says "Sure, please do!"
Kinunie --> http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/mithril/ # This one is -really- cool.

Playing with Dasher

Fake words are the new black. All the right things to say when times are tough or when you just need someone to look at, and you're a member of the style army with your new books and contacts, they're all fake words. The name of the game is "Form Over Function," and every cool kid plays like there's no time left to start again.

If you find that the Stylish Elite doesn't actually speak for you, and that their words that signify nothing aren't to your cultured taste, then not only are you out of luck, you're also drowned out of the monocultural conversation.

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Fake words are easy to write.