Posted on 01/08/2017 3:36:09 AM PST by markomalley
My granddaughter thought it would be good for her great grandfather who has recently lost his eyesight and had been using an IPad.
But I’m getting to the disabled part. We just got the thing, I’ve not learned how to use it well, doesn’t know a lot of simple stuff. Ask it who did a song, you might get the right answer. A lot of I don’t know answers. Lot like google voice only you don’t have to use your cell phone. To many steps to use the features to turn on lights and stuff. It can read Kindle books for you. Good idea for vision impaired, and that is where I’m heading fast. Don’t know if it will resume were it left off reading like Kindle does, that I blow up as large as I can.
If I want a pizza I just txt my son, he manages the Papa John’s 2 miles away and he sends one over Free.
Already have a complete surround sound stereo system, hubby is a music geek. Now having it turn the heat or AC up in the car would be nice, you’d not have to take your eyes off the road. But I sure wouldn’t want it tracking my driving habits that can be hacked. Or pass words.
Thanks man. I didn’t know that existed. I shall look it up
Heck, I heard the pioneers couldn’t even get The Food Network!
Don’t know how they did it.
And God knows there was NO reception on The Mayflower.
Big Brother is watching you.
And the idiots are inviting him right into their own homes.
Stay on top of your eye doc visits!! Mother had astigmatism surgery that first doctor missed last year.
Read your profile. My mom lost pop after 29 years. She was only 49 and now she’s 84. Didn’t make sense to me staying single the rest of her life. Her choice.
I’m glad you found someone.
Keep working with that thing and enjoying the pizza :)
It is great for the elderly and disabled.....
We’ve ordered it my our 90 year old MIL
“And God knows there was NO reception on The Mayflower.”
Surely they had a safe space on board the Mayflower...?
Good!
I first learned about the use for disabled when I was reading reviews on Amazon.
Guy was talking about his brother who’d been paralyzed from MS for thirty years and now had a sense of freedom.
If that doesn’t touch a person, they’re stone cold!
I wish your MIL the best with it.
ROFL!!!
Can you imagine how badly you’d get the #### kicked out of you if you mentioned that on the voyage over!!
“Ethan called me a derisive name and I need a space where I feel safe on the boat from hurtful people.”
“Bottom left corner with the rats. Good luck.”
Most Smart TVs have voice activated controls, so they too are listening all of the time. It will be hard to get away from this if one really wants to, unless they forgo all technology.
I have an Alexa and love it, and disabled the voice ordering ability after I read about this incident.
I used to laugh when I read Revelations about people choosing to get the Mark of the Beaat. “Nobody would be that stupid!,” I’d remark. “Who couldn’t see that coming?”
Well, today we have an army of nimrods willing to tattoo and pierce even their private parts, open up their personal details on Facebook and put all their transactions on debit cards. And now they can blab into a “personal assistant” that will rat them out to FedGov should it ever be necessary. Their phones get to track their whereabouts 24/7.
Today, Alexa has to be asked to order a dollhouse. Tomorrow, it may be prompted by just a specific audible tone sent by your phone. We are becoming a nation of lemmings.
What makes you think that these Bezos/WaPo designed devices are listening only to your questions and product orders, but not also your political remarks, racial or gender biases, admissions of prior misdeeds, etc? Is that far fetched nowadays, with silicon valley slime like Zuckerberg spending half his time schmoozing with obama, merkel, etc?
I think people should leave their communication “tools” sitting next to a conservative talk show station when not in use. I also believe it’s the politicians who will rue the day devices started listening.
that darn mouse is just so hard to move and click anymore, pretty soon they won't be strong enough to scratch their own butt
I sure hope so. They are working on driver-less cars without steering wheels and foot pedals..
With a touch-screen, one doesn’t even have to move a mouse.
I’d forgotten about the motorized blinds. I raise and lower mine by hand.
I don’t see the need for driverless cars. There are already other modes of transportation where you don’t have to drive.
Btw, who is responsible for the auto insurance for a driverless car? If there are no user controls, how could the user be responsible for the accident? Wouldn’t that make the auto companies liable for mishaps?
I’m interested in ads because of what they suggest about the audience. For example, when I found myself watching daytime cable tv “reality” shows at my mother’s, the ads were either for contraceptive drugs and devices or for class-action lawsuits against the makers of contraceptive drugs and devices.
When my son was listening to Sean Hannity the other day, the ads were for indebtedness relief services or addiction treatment.
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