[Ipg-smz] Why I'm not going to CES

[Sharon Fisher]

Stephen King, the Mangler, in Night Shift

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 6:00 PM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Tom Henderson wrote:
> > "Last year we came to CES with a mockup of FoldiMate, the robotic
> laundry
> > folder that quickly folds your laundry into neat piles so you can easily
> > put them away. This year, we’d love for you to bring your laundry to the
> > show … FoldiMate is bringing a fully functioning prototype!
>
> Semper ubi sub ubi! (But don't leave a copy of A Wrinkle In Time in your
> laundry, or, no doubt, your stuff will end up on Mars or Narnia or
> whatever.
>
> > I wish I could write a SciFi story about the laundry folder gone wrong,
> > how some Moldbanians were able to hack it, connecting to the NE USA
> > power grid, hijacking it, only to be thwarted by The Dress That Could
> > Not Be Folded, which caused it to kernel dump.
>
> It's another near-future tech murder mystery waiting to happen.
>
> Or was that David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself ?:-)
>
> DPD
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