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Old 06-29-2009, 04:23 PM   #2
Flint
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
Can I be the usual meh-sayer?
Maybe you didn't notice, this is a proof-of-concept prototype built in three months by a college student with $350 of off-the-shelf parts. It's not a finished product and this is not a marketing video to "sell" you on marketable features.

Nevertheless, on 03-08-2008, you asked Dwellars to consider the following:
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
Have you ever browsed through a brick-and-mortar store, and wished you had access to Amazon reviews?
Isn't the device they built here exactly the kind of thing that could do that? Didn't you, yourself ask for this device to be developed? Granted, you have to strecth your imagination far enough to imagine that the platform that could rate one type of product on one type of criteria would be capable of the impossible, science-fiction task of :::gasp::: obtaining other types of informtaion about other types of things.
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