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Casio Smart Outdoor Watch Is Not So Smart

Casio Smart Outdoor Watch - Mil Spec Android Wear - Google Store. The new Casio SmartWatch is water resistant to 50 meters, runs the latest Android Wear, and is suitable for any outdoorsman; but, it has two serious flaws. 1. It costs $500 2. It has no GPS chip. Say what? An outdoorsman watch without GPS? That's just nuts. Casio has built some outstanding outdoors watches. My Pathfinder is still the most durable watch in this category I have owned. And, Casio began the digital watch revolution. But, this glaring omission makes me wonder. And, the addition of a phone chip would be ideal for an outdoorsman who doesn't want to carry his smartphone into the wild. 

When The Millennials Take Over The World

I got this over on Google+.

#ParrotSunday - Happy Easter From Rio And Savannah

I don't have the heart to tell them what's in the eggs I am eating.

#ParrotSunday - Happy Easter From Savannah And Her Human

Savannah is a Scarlet Macaw, and she is a one man parrot. 

Samsung Galaxy View - Reintroduce Yourself To Your Family

Samsung Galaxy View review | Stuff. You know it's true. Our modern fascination with mobile phones and tablets has made our family into another piece of furniture in the house. They themselves have their faces buried in their own phones and tablets, and hide in their rooms avoiding human contact. Okay, it isn't that bad; but, while we are interacting with our Facebook friends online we may be ignoring those around us. Enter the View, which I purchased for the family last week, and which is already being used by everyone in the kitchen, in the family room, and elsewhere in the house. SWMBO sets it up in the kitchen and watches videos and browses the web while cooking. SWSWBO uses it on the dining room table or living room. And, I actually leave the den and spend time in the same room with them now. Galaxy View, savior of the family? Okay, overkill. But, this is a great group tablet, and Android makes it easy for every user to have their own files and apps. 

Artificial Intelligence - Not. Call It Cognitive Technology

Artificial Intelligence in Law: The State of Play 2016. As we have been discussing, artificial intelligence is a contradiction in terms. In fact, what impact technology that teaches machines to learn will have on the practice of law in this century is the prime purpose for AI research. In this paper, Michael Mills analyzes AI, or cognitive technologies and calls it a "big forest of academic and commercial work around the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. The science is already being implemented in ediscovery, legal research, legal compliance, contract analysis, document automation and case prediction. From the beginning of modern computing, computers have been used to automate much of the rote work of law practice. Every time an attorney uses a computer to create a form document, and edits it on a computer, she is using a form of cognitive technology; albeit primitive by modern standards. So, get with the program Mr. and Ms. Lawyer. Your practice is changing, and intelligent machines can help you make it through.

Thank You, Execupundit

Execupundit.com: FutureLawyer's 20th. Thanks to Michael Wade for the kind words on his blog yesterday about the FutureLawyer site anniversary. As for my fuzzy date memory, I admit that remembering the day in 1996 that I began the FutureLawyer site is lost to history, and to my feeble memory. However, I think that, at my age, getting a date to within 365 days is quite the accomplishment. In another 20 years, when I celebrate the 40th anniversary of the blog, I hope to get the date to within 5 years. As for the kind words, back at you, Execupundit. Your blog has been indispensable to me for many years, and I hope that we both continue. I do, however, think that we both should update our clearly more than 10 years old cover photographs. 

Google Photos - Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here

How Google Photos uses machine learning to create customized albums - CSMonitor.com. Regular readers know that I hate the term "Artificial Intelligence". What we are teaching computers to do is really enhanced analysis and decision making by computer software. But, AI has a ring to it, so... A subset of AI is called "machine learning", which is a term for the analysis of images and data by computers and the application of that analysis to other data. In fact, the only photo software I use these days, Google Photos, uses machine learning to analyze, catalogue, and present all of my photos in context. I love the fact that I can go out an shoot to my heart's content, and Google's computers will organize them, and present them to me in an understandable way. Want to create a photo journal of your last trip to DisneyWorld? Google Photos does it automatically. These are the kinds of things AI will do for humans in the future. They will enhance our lives, not control them. 

I Don't Want To Live In A Future Where I Have To Make A Bow And Arrow

Making a Bow and Arrow Without Modern Tools Is Damned Impressive. Okay, it is impressive to watch this guy make a bow and arrow by hand, without modern tools, in order to survive in a Dystopian future. I want my SmartPhone and my SmartWatches to work, and I want a soft bed in a warm house. And, while I want to know how to do this stuff, I never want to do it. So, let's all learn to get along, to be together, but different. Let's make this knowledge useless, okay?

Michael Kors Access SmartWatches Coming In The Fall

My post about the coming Michael Kors designer watches for women that will sport Android Wear interfaces and classic Kors design has made my female housemates happy, and my Christmas shopping for SWMBO and SWSWBO easy this year. Compatible with SWMBO's Galaxy Note 5, and with SWSWBO's iPhone, this gift purchase is a slam dunk. And, at $395, the Access line of watches will be both beautiful and inexpensive. Thank you, Mr. Kors.