Google X Display Boss: Smartphones, Tablets, Apps Are "Mind-Numbing" 157
curtwoodward writes "Stop drooling over that new iPhone. Put away the fancy tablet. Because the real hardcore nerds find that stuff 'boring' and 'mind-numbing,' says Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division at secretive R&D lab Google X. At MIT's EmTech conference, Jepsen said the next generation of 'moonshot' tech is much more exciting and interesting. That includes Google X projects like the driverless car, Project Loon, a stratospheric balloon-based wireless network, and Google Glass."
The future is, of course, Teledildonics (Score:5, Funny)
All that other stuff is bullshit. Once you combine teledildonics with direct brain stimulation, it's game over man.
Re:"bored out of her mind"?? (Score:5, Funny)
A laptop is a TOOL. A cellphone is a TOOL.
Pop quiz, Mary Lou Jepsen is .........
Comfortably Numb, or Anesthetisensational?! (Score:5, Funny)
What utter bull sack! I'll have you know I hand craft the kerning of my fonts with painstaking attention to detail, and sculpt those myriad of pixel perfect displays and animations a single frame at a time. When it all comes together right in some yuppie's eye, IT IS Exhilarating!
The only thing more exciting than building those big, beautiful, almost intuitive, displays is making the tools one uses to make them:
A P fucking I's!!!
Why, I once met a guy who helped standardize IEEE 1364...
That's Verilog to you philistines.
He was a veritable volcano of vivacity whose smile beamed with the brilliance of a billion bacon breakfasts.
The further down you go the more excited the turtles are!
Re:Overlooking an obvious fact (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Reener (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, they've noticed the child...why do you think they are initiating video recording?
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of working on mind-numbing and boring smartphones and pads, I'll work for balloon-based wireless transponders for those mind-numbing and boring gadgets.
Hurray!