Sometime in former December , I pass a workweek in Hawaii . I bought that painting by local artistDoug Young , which caught my eye and reference posting before I could think about the price . It was meant to be all about the fruit , but the Mac icons reminded me of what ’s sound about OS X : The O finally fades away so you could rivet on the “ fruits ” like my writing , photos and music . I know . I sound like a freaking commercial . I was having tech withdrawal , OK ?
I take everyone ’s adviceand did n’t bring a smartphone , using a regular cellular telephone only once or twice a day . All I wanted to do was sit on the beach and swim out as far into the Pacific as I ’d brave . Did I miss Gizmodo and my phones and TVs and whizzy wigs ? Yep , a tidy sum . Then again , I did run into a destiny of gadgets I ’d probably have never seen during my mainland living .
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Lisa ’s uncle and aunty hosted us for the more meaningful part of the trip . He ’s an onetime ex - hippie / yogi guy who is spacey and down to earth at the same time . Lisa ’s aunty grow up in Tokyo and Hong Kong and decide she ’d end up in Hawaii after watching Elvis ’s Blue Hawaii .
In their house were two outstandingly uncanny gadgets .
Biomodulator
The first was the biomodulator . It is a aesculapian gadget that “ place electrical saccade through your prime stop in the trunk using 7 frequencies of electrical flow to jar your cellular membrane into being charge . ” It is supposed to serve with painful sensation and overall health . I hear it . It experience like I had a battery hooked up to my neck opening and can confirm the different tingly sensations coming from the equipment , which looks like a Russian - build tricorder . It is also FDA sanction to reduce pain , which a MD ( Doctor Arn who runsMacrumors ; really , he ’s an MD when not ladder the internet site ) that the simple concept here is technically calledTranscutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation . In some trial , placebo were more effective , agree to Wikipedia , but I meet deal of people on the island who said it had helped them . Who jazz . I ca n’t confirm or refuse that it works .
Annie and Rick be in a really weird and wonderful Japanese - styled theater near Diamondhead on Oahu , with an open courtyard in the center , sliding doors with rice report shades , and monumental monolithic open story . There was a TV , and some computers , but this is not a nerd ’s house . Not in the typical sense , anyhow .
Total Shield
Behind a house painting in a quoin of a elbow room , I spied some red and fleeceable flickering , looking closer , I discover this PVC pipe with LED and a switch and a recording label that read “ Total Shield . ” As well as a verbal description that goes something like this :
This is a multipurpose whole designed to neutralize EMF ’s and/or Geopathic Stress . For EMF protection it produces a 7.83 Hz field ( Schumann Resonance ) which blankets a 20,000 sq . ft . area . This has the effect of overcoming the negative EMF fields . For Geopathic Stess the whole notice and then inflate the waves REVERSING in phase by 180 degree and retransmitting them which has the effect of counterbalance them ( standardised to noise cancellation technology ) .
If the thing is output a signal in 180 degree to what it discover , it ’ll theoretically set off it . I think the description above claims that the equipment do in ALL EMFs , after saying its only in the 7.83Hz stove . But the Wi - Fi in the home , and cellphones worked fine . It also turns out Schumann Resonance is a real thing . It is also over my psyche . I also make no discernment here , but the thing wait like a tube bomb and that is kind of thrilling .
Zara Alpha Swim Fins
Zelda . That ’s what I thought of when I learn Annie ’s swim fin . We were swim out to a flag about a quarter mile out off Kaimana beach , a local spot at the top of Waikiki . I was not drown , but I was n’t really swimming very well , either , and Rick and Annie could recite . Being older but being very set from swimming in the sea every day , Annie add me her louver . These were remarkable in the elbow room that they were modest and regulate in a way that suggested they were hydrodynamic in the way that orthogonal Little Phoebe are n’t . Well , I am not slumber with the fishes , so I guess they shape moderately well . Bonus : they do n’t tend to pull off your mortise joint like normal fin .
So about that cellphone . I admit , it was a Sony Ericsson W880i , and it did have Gmail apps on it , so I was checking personal electronic mail once in a while when no one was wait . But having to click through 4 levels to get to my inbox was a bit of a deterrent , if that makes me a little more innocent .
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