I seem to keep stumbling upon websites that appear to be advertising some great new product, only to find that there’s no link to buy it - and this because it’s not even a real product and probably never will be.
Oh, wait… “It’s just a concept so there’s no info on important tidbits like tactile feedback, battery life, system stats, etc…”
At least that one had the decency to admit it was only a concept, unlike many sites that ranted and raved about …
Example 2: - wow! You mean I can get a slim MP3 player that splits open to play CDS? Oh, no, I can’t because it doesn’t frigging exist.
And so on. There have been so many of these lately, that I can’t remember any more of them - they’ve all melded into a single impossibly-thin, implausibly functional, reliant-upon-magic-future-technology, globally illuminated CGI ‘tech product’ that [del]will do[/del] DOES everything.
Please. If it’s concept art, don’t tell me it’s a bloody product. It’s not a product until you actually make it, and it works, and you start selling them.
Since at least 1980, every few years there have been articles in Popular Mechanics and similar mags touting the first commercially available household robot!!
. . . except, every single time, it isn’t commercially available and even if it was it would cost a million dollars and wouldn’t actually be able to do anything useful. The ASIMO is just the latest incarnation.
I’ve been playing WoW for two years. Now, while I’m hooked and have no problems admitting it, sometimes I want to try other games.
Most of their competition allows you to download a working version of their game for free, then after your trial period expires you pony up if you want to stay. Works for me!
Only, none of the games I’ve tried to try were tryable, you know? Well, one may have been if I’d been willing to jump through enough hoops to apply for a Secret Service job. For others, I’ve been told that, although my rig more than exceeds official system requirements (and is able to play WoW at its highest graphic settings except in a couple of areas notorious for graphic problems), I have to shut down everything (including antivirus and firewall) in order to play their 'net-based games.
Uh, no.
I’ll stick to my dwarves and gnomes I guess, with the occasional tauren thrown in
I’ve had the same problem with boxed games. At least these trials were free!
I also hate it when a product is talked about but not YET available. Take for example the not-so new 45nm architecture for processors. I swear I read about how Intel had developed this great and fast processor chip, but when I go to try and buy it, nearly a year later? Still in development? After another “breakthrough” and a 32nm chipset announced.
Batteries are frequently bad about this, there must be hundreds of new battery technologies that promise to revolutionize things, but we see very very few of them.
Back when I read Discover magazine it had mostly articles about things not yet available. That was 3 or 4 years ago, maybe they’ve got better.
There was an for some service that showed a guy stopping at a motel on a lonely desert highway and asking if they had TV movies. The gum chewing kid clerk assures him they have every movie ever made on demand 24 hours. He’s stunned. But it was some cable company’s dream. I never figured out who they were selling to.
