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Flashlights
Oct. 18th, 2009 06:59 pmLast night I woke up at around 4:30am with nasty throat pain (I'm still somewhat sick) and had the following amusing train of thought.
"I'll need some ibuprofen and melatonin to fall asleep again but I won't be able to find the bottle without a flashlight."
"Crap... the iphone flashlight is out of reach."
"Oh wait... I have like 3 more flashlights in my backpack: The ipod flashlight, the digital camera flashlight, and the laptop flashlight."
"Wow, I'm living in an xkcd cartoon."
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Someone should travel back in time to 1970 and tell some incredulous flashlight manufacturer that some of the most popular flashlights of 2009 also let you take pictures, call anyone in the world without a phone line, watch movies, play video games, shop, and instantly and remotely consult with and add to the entire worldwide collected base of human knowledge. I bet THAT wasn't in the product roadmap.
It would, technically, be true.
"I'll need some ibuprofen and melatonin to fall asleep again but I won't be able to find the bottle without a flashlight."
"Crap... the iphone flashlight is out of reach."
"Oh wait... I have like 3 more flashlights in my backpack: The ipod flashlight, the digital camera flashlight, and the laptop flashlight."
"Wow, I'm living in an xkcd cartoon."
--
Someone should travel back in time to 1970 and tell some incredulous flashlight manufacturer that some of the most popular flashlights of 2009 also let you take pictures, call anyone in the world without a phone line, watch movies, play video games, shop, and instantly and remotely consult with and add to the entire worldwide collected base of human knowledge. I bet THAT wasn't in the product roadmap.
It would, technically, be true.
