{"id":3013,"date":"2006-03-15T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:35:27","slug":"its-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/its-a-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two researchers at MIT have created a man-control mechanism given the chickly name &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/03\/08\/love.cups.reut\/index.html?section=cnn_tech\" target=\"_new\">loving cups<\/a>&quot; designed to control males:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers have come up with a novel way to keep long-distance lovers in touch &#8212; high-tech wine glasses that glow warmly however far apart the pining couple are.<\/p>\n<p>When either person picks up a glass, red light-emitting diodes glow on their partner&#8217;s glass. When one puts a glass to their lips, the other glass glows brightly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guys, they have couched this into some touchy-feely chick experience of shared love, communal libation, or what have you, but that&#8217;s just the hook.  The real purpose of the contraption is to provide her with an alarm that alerts her to <i>how much you drink<\/i>.  Sure, it&#8217;s a wineglass now, but soon it will no doubt be embedded in your favorite fraternity mug.<\/p>\n<p>All I got to say is that these things should have an epilepsy warning associated with them, particularly if they&#8217;re going to blink every time I take a drink.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricvenom.com\/2006\/03\/14\/loving-cups\/#comments\" target=\"_new\">Electric Venom<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two researchers at MIT have created a man-control mechanism given the chickly name &quot;loving cups&quot; designed to control males: Researchers have come up with a novel way to keep long-distance lovers in touch &#8212; high-tech wine glasses that glow warmly however far apart the pining couple are. When either person picks up a glass, red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18852,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}