This past weekend, I was up in El Dorado Hills sitting in a Mercedes dealership waiting room and had some time to kill. So, I picked up one of the many magazines they had laying neatly arranged in eight columns and four rows beneath a large screen LCD TV that was broadcasting horse-racing, or whatever the hell it is that typical Benz consumers enjoy watching, and I turned the page to this neat little innovation dubbed the "Ambient Orb".
Apparently, I and many others are way behind with the news as Ambient released this thing back in 2004, and it was dubbed one of the five ideas to watch in June 2004 by INC. This orb is bad ass, and the idea has a lot more potential than what has manifested. The Ambient Orb changes color with the weather, stock market, or traffic to let you know if it's going to rain today (the orb turns blue), or if your stocks are up (the orb turns red)--the orb changes colors throughout the color wheel. Right now, the biggest downside is that it runs on the same frequency as pagers do. So, updates come half-hourly--but, this simple orb is bound to amass new technologies and partnerships to create extremely useful key chains that offer real time traffic or weather updates, rising and falling stocks, or maybe even hurricane and tsunami alerts. The possibilities are numerous, to me.
Check out this company and their goodies "dito".
P.S. If anyone can offer any input on whether ResistAll treatment from the dealership is worth it--holla at me. I'm trying to streamline expenses on as many fronts as possible.
*Edit: After a little looking around, ResistAll seems to be nothing more than overpriced exterior and interior protection. If you're faced with the opportunity to purchase a ResistAll package, you'll probably want to reconsider and just go to a professional detailer. Or, you could apply a good coat of Zaino, and just Scotchgard your interior fabrics yourself.
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