What will they think of next?
Posted by Richard Mankhey
Thanks to the wonders of science, technology, and other disciplines that spend at least part of the time working to better the human race, it is commonplace to see new and exciting products and services popping up daily.
Less commonly encountered is a new application of an entrenched technology like RAM (random access memory), that essential bit of your computer that makes it “think” faster the more there is.
So recently while searching Amazon.com for some of the stuff for my older laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8600 (born on 12/4/2003) with 256 MB of RAM…yes, I just said 256 MB of RAM. For those less interested than I in such numbers and acronyms, I’ll use an analogy:
256 MB of RAM in my ancient Inspiron IS TO Today’s standard PC memory of 4 GB
just as
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IS TO
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Make sense? Good. So I decided it’s time for an upgrade and skipped the $86 option from Dell.com because the same 1 GB of memory is available from Amazon.com at $14.88, thank you very much.
But that’s not all! The memory you can purchase from Amazon.com also has orthopedic healing properties! Or so says a customer reviewing the product:
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I won’t hold my breath for miracles but this may be the next thing you’ll see on late night info-mercials between the “Sham-WOW!” and “Thigh-Master” slots.