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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Enjoy the surprised change

Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:56 PM by Will Femia
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Ring mouse! (I have no idea.)

Not only did a lot of the attendees have accents (indicating a strong international presence), but some of the presenters barely spoke a word of English. I'm not the kind of person who gets angry over that but it did make for some awkward exchanges.
It's a little hard to make out but the shot below is of electronic cigarettes and cigars. I asked the guy what they were for and if they were meant to serve as an aid to quit smoking. I asked the question three times, three different ways in as simple language as I could but the best I got was, "It's similar like smoking." So there you go.

Another one that still has me stumped was an amalgam of companies who put together a remote house-monitoring system that allows you to check on your house and have a robot perform tasks for you in response to a call from your cell phone. There are four sites listed on the info sheet (I'll upload a picture later tonight): Toshiba, Roboporium, Transvirtual, and FTL but what I don't understand is if you can already control your house through Toshiba's Feminity, what does the robot do?

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