The number one complaint that I hear from friends, family and random strangers complaining on the train is that their personal technology devices (mp3 player, phone, watch, etc.) are not waterproof. The number one enemy to their electric devices is water. Be it the humidity in the air, the sweat from a successful exercise session, or devices that just seem to be drawn to pools of standing water, there’s a huge disconnect between the number one feature people want, and the ever increasing feature list of things that don’t matter as much.

I’ve often thought that every single device which is meant to be used daily should also be waterproof. There is a huge benefit to the user even if that device never, ever gets completely submerged in water. I may have to look into Liquipel further.

Be sure to watch the video demonstration at the tail end of Danny’s blog post.

Source: Polaroid, only MOSTLY dead.

From left: Gene Simmons, Kathleen Kinmont, Alana Curry.

In the summer of 2003 the company I was working for at the time hired KISS for an event in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  I learned a lot during that entire process and I’ve finally found the time to write about one specific thing I learned by meeting Gene Simmons.

Have I mentioned that I love writing my weekly articles for Waking Ideas?

Source: Waking Ideas: Meeting Gene.

Here is an excerpt:

“I mean what else could I have done with roughly 83 hours of free time? Stretched out this is over two weeks of full-time labor, double the amount of time it takes to learn to be a pilot, or the record time a person has circumvented the entire planet Earth solo. Ok, but do those things have anything to do with a mysterious island, a plane crash, love triangles (and sometimes even love squares), black smoke monsters, invisible cabin dwellers, polar bears in tropical climates, self-projecting children, time traveling consciousnesses, or JOHN LOCKE? I think not.”

Source: Waking Ideas: LOST in time.

Source: Jupiter, Venus, and Earth’s Moon are BFFs.