Do you ever feel technology has passed you by? I’m an early adopter and no mistake, so it’s depressing to find something I can’t adopt. I am physically incapable and have been for many years.
I wrote last week about my multiplicity of health monitoring devices. But the Internet of Hairbrushes has me beat. Withings, a company whose products I respect — I have the body scale and the blood pressure monitor — has committed the greatest sin in my book. it has introduced the internet hairbrush.
For the first time I feel excluded to the point of downright prejudice. I haven’t needed a hairbrush for many, many years, you see. I don’t have anything to brush and consequently no brush to brush nothing with. And this latest marvel of connectivity brushes me up in entirely the wrong way.
Almost every other bit of my anatomy could be monitored effectively. But hair? No, definitely a barren ground for the internet.
This is the first time I have felt left behind by technology. The question remains, though: How many hirsute millennials will think it cool to connect their hairbrush to the internet. I wonder….
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Very good Mike…
The company should at least include one of those east European phone apps that overlays something extra when one views oneself on the camera… There was a rash of them this time last year, where one could make oneself look older, or hairier, or younger or change from one sex to another…
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id397336795?mt=8
Then you could virtually… er… brush your hair with this excellent device.
Frank, William and Mr. Teasy,
Yes, you are all right. Even if I did have hair, this particular idea would be a brush too far. Similarly, I’ve resisted the internet toothbrush, although I do use a Philips Sonic which forces me to brush for two minutes, 30-seconds a side. That works, but, as William says, I see no merit in recording the operation. It’s something I do twice a day without variance, so the statistics would be boring. I suspect the same applies the brushing hair, although I can’t remember what it feels like.
I am sure that somewhere in the world there is an app that could give a man a ‘pretend Trump mane’ and that he could then use another app to maintain it. Strictly for those that have nothing better to do, of course.
William
Frank has just stolen my (planned) opening line. The question, is I suppose, to misquote Hamlet, whether ‘to buy or not to buy’. A better question is how did we survive before we had all of these things. When the so-called ‘information super highway’ came along we were promised that we would never have it so good. But, in truth, we are now ‘information rich’ but ‘time poor’ as we spend our time seeking and managing a lot of useless information. A large filter needs to be applied to anything new, with the question being ‘ do I really need or want this?’. I do not deny that there are many as yet unexploited uses of information technology, particularly outside of the ‘first world’ , which could genuinely enhance people’s lives.
Meanwhile over on the Leica Forum guys (for it is mainly they) are working themselves into a lather arguing over a camera that is not yet commercially available, instead of waiting and applying the ‘Hamlet test’.
William
Hair today, gone tomorrow and that’s the bald truth. Take refuge in the lowest form of high-brow humour, Mike! (I’m wearing my grey Leica baseball cap today to keep my bald spot warm.) Very best, Frank