Friday, December 9, 2011

Impact Smart Hard Drives

OK… it’s a Friday night and I (like my fellow geeks) are at home watching The Big Bang Theory.

A commercial comes on… a computer maker is going insure the security of the world by making sure their laptops have (get this) “Impact Smart Hard Drives”.

I started wondering if they meant that the hard drive was smart enough to know when it had encountered an impact or if it just knew the definition of the word “impact”.

I would hope that technology companies would refrain from misleading the public about (of all things) the capabilities of the technologies they sell.

Why don’t they say “shock resistant” or something like that.

Save the world… don’t drop your laptop