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My week as a booth babe
May. 17th, 2013 10:00 amI volunteer for a group that supports and promotes women in technology careers. Once a year there's FOSE, a big convention that started out as an office supplies expo and now has the latest technology. We're their favorite charity and they give us free space. I spent large parts of the last three days handing out our brochure and being charming to random people. I actually really like doing it because I get a chance to see the cool toys (and meet nice people).
The booth next to us had a 3-D printer. That was cool if slightly creepy. According to the demonstrators, it all depends on the materials used as input. It could make an ice cube if the input materials were cold enough. They could make a wedding ring if the input materials were raw gold. Toshiba had a little robot dog, like K-9's great grandad. The robot baby needs a robot doggie to play with.
Another company had a computer table of awesome like the one in Hawaii 5-0. I watched the demonstration for a while and noticed all the pictures were of women in bikinis. Oddly enough, women were not lingering at the display. Tech types are sometimes tonedeaf about their audiences.
The government security guys also had an expo this week. Now those are some cool toys. A two-seater helicopter, lots of scopes and various firearms. Lots of very fit young men with serious faces and short haircuts,too.
The booth next to us had a 3-D printer. That was cool if slightly creepy. According to the demonstrators, it all depends on the materials used as input. It could make an ice cube if the input materials were cold enough. They could make a wedding ring if the input materials were raw gold. Toshiba had a little robot dog, like K-9's great grandad. The robot baby needs a robot doggie to play with.
Another company had a computer table of awesome like the one in Hawaii 5-0. I watched the demonstration for a while and noticed all the pictures were of women in bikinis. Oddly enough, women were not lingering at the display. Tech types are sometimes tonedeaf about their audiences.
The government security guys also had an expo this week. Now those are some cool toys. A two-seater helicopter, lots of scopes and various firearms. Lots of very fit young men with serious faces and short haircuts,too.
