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Hugehead

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Google Motion!
« on: April 01, 2011, 10:28:07 am »

Google's coming out with a new feature for GMail, a neat technology that lets you use your built in web cam like a Kinect to sense your position and preform common Email functions, shown in the image here:

With a feature complete list here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/mail.google.com/en/us/mail/help/images/motion/motion_printable_guide.pdf
Google claims it gets you a 12% increase in productivity, is simple to learn and gets you active. Read all about it and watch their videos about it here. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2011, 10:28:46 am »

Troll thread is troll.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2011, 10:31:54 am »

I still prefer the 1911 button.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2011, 10:34:36 am »

You can tell by the troll icon of the OP. It is the visage if the master troll himself. (dressed as a troll)
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2011, 10:39:43 am »

12% increase in productivity

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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2011, 10:41:09 am »

Minecart Interstate 3.0 with the 1911 button is an entertaining watch. Music is surprisingly appropriate.

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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2011, 10:43:14 am »

Sooo... I get a 12% productivity by getting my ass off the warm, comfortable, non-hemorrhoid-inducing chair and hopping around like a monkey on a sugar rush every time I send one of the eighty emails I have to send a day? Interesting...
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2011, 10:49:46 am »

I was actually swallowing it up (or rather, not questioning it), until I saw the face of the guy doing the motions, and thought "this whole thing is stupid". And then I realized what day it was today.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2011, 10:52:22 am by ChairmanPoo »
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2011, 10:52:01 am »

So wish it was true, they could have you act out the letters to type.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2011, 10:52:30 am »

No!!! You're an idiot!!! I was going to post my fool's joke today... Why would you post this first instead of coming up with an original joke of your own!!!
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2011, 10:53:03 am »

Troll thread is troll.
Come on, let people have their fun.
Sooo... I get a 12% productivity by getting my ass off the warm, comfortable, non-hemorrhoid-inducing chair and hopping around like a monkey on a sugar rush every time I send one of the eighty emails I have to send a day? Interesting...
Well, early results show that it's actually taking a little longer, but Google is confident that that it's just because people have to adjust, and that with some fine tuning you'll be able to get as much as a 14% boost.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2011, 04:53:25 pm »

It would work better if you could use your penis.

Okay I'm joking, that would screw anyone who's female and uses Gmail.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2011, 04:56:17 pm »

Is it still the first of April anywhere of earth?

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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2011, 04:57:53 pm »

Not here anymore.



April fools, it still is! For 3 minutes or so.
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Re: Google Motion!
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2011, 05:32:48 pm »

At first I believed it, then looked at the calendar.
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