Friday, September 16, 2005

just think if they used the clapper rather than voice recognition

the article isn't interesting, but this blurb for a cnet news piece amused me: "Intel shows off prototypes of medical devices that could one day let doctors use voice recognition to access patients' vitals."

I imagined surgeons saying a passphrase and then the patient's chest opening up to reveal their vitals. "Computer, show liver!"

Actually, by "vitals" it meant "pieces of vital information." Dude, that's not what adjectives are for.