Sometimes you think you’ve seen everything. Then, Jason Torchinsky blasts through a wall like the Kool-Aid man with something that you’ve never heard of before, and honestly, you aren’t entirely sure it is even real. Look, knowing Jason, it may not even be real, either. Yet, this morning, Jason wrote a Cold Start about a car braking controller actuated by the driver’s eyebrows.
Amazingly, this wasn’t one of Jason’s fake bizarro world ideas, but somehow real. You had a whole lot of fun responding to it. Jay Vette:
Apple later expanded upon this idea for their ill-fated forehead-muscle-controlled search engine, iBrowse.
I can hear the distant groan of all of our readers.
StillNotATony:
Suddenly, everyone with botox can’t stop their cars.
Maymar:
I’m picturing a world in which Eugene Levy and Peter Gallagher are the world’s top racing drivers, and the Rock has spent years learning to work his left eyebrow instead of the right to excel in Nascar.
Urban Runabout:
Just imagining DeForest Kelley working the brakes with his quizzical expressions….
…ya think he could get the USS Enterprise to drop out of warp with those eyebrows?
Speaking of eyebrows, I love this related comment in Jason’s piece about the worst driving game. No Kids, Just Bikes:
You could easily play this game with your eyebrows.
This morning, Matt wrote about how someone really has an axe to grind about Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe. TheDrunkenWrench has a funny joke theory:
I think it’s Matt Hardigree. He has a history. First he campaigned against Carlos Tavares for months on end. Now, unable to satisfy his Automotive CEO blood lust, has turned his sights on Scaringe!
Have a great evening, everyone!
Topshot: Popular Mechanics/Apple/Autopian
While some technologies may seem trivial and goofy it is important to understand possible uses. This could have resulted on a new lease on life for someone like Stephen Hawking. This could have been an early transitional tech for Stephen to use for his communication needs. He used a similar laser based eye movement tracker in his later years.
Oooooohhhh – My second win –
And I wasn’t even trying!
Off for a celebratory eyebrow trim now….
iBrouse. Well done!
Wow I’ve never won COTD before! I’ve hit my peak. It’s all downhill from here
Still working on that one. But it is one of my life goals.
Not downhill. You might become a TWO time winner.
I don’t know what’s better. Jay Vette getting COTD with literally the second comment of the first post of the day,
Or that my conspiracy theory now has traction. We’ll be watching you Matt.