Maya Eats Cake

Human-like Dolls pass the iPhoto test

mayagrinberg — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:14:50 +0000

You know how iPhoto ‘09 can recognize faces and asks you for their names so it can tag the people in your photos for you in the future? Well, I found this very amusing.

(From a recent trip to FAO Schwartz with my buddy Alina where we like to pretend to act like little girls and wander around the store lustfully grabbing at objects and play Princess pretend. More evidence below.)

Browsing Uglies

We met a real LIVE Ugly!

I wish I were a Fairy Princess...

Google teams with Alertme, British Gas to give consumers control

mayagrinberg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:50 +0000

Google is moving their smart grid initiative influence all over the world– they’re pushing some big buttons, and this is going to bring about big changes in the consumer energy consumption arena. On the business side, it is much more typical to see large energy utilities move towards smart grid by slowly deploying intelligent metering infrastructure throughout their territories, while expecting the consumers to tag along eventually, after the manual meter swaps occur and the infrastructure is ready to send and receive customer information. Google is going straight to the consumer with these initiatives (along with whichever companies they’re partnering with, TED in the US and Alertme in Britain), making their success inevitable, if only in light of the fact that they have the power (haha, punny) to HIT the CONSUMER first, even if Joe Blow’s utility company is in the process of planning out the two year long architecture and deployment processes necessary to make Blow’s house a smart home.

Kudos, Google. You got some smart cookies in the .org arm of the company.

AlertMe teams with Google, British Gas to give consumers more control over energy use | VentureBeat.

Fly Ride

mayagrinberg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:47:20 +0000

My vehicle for the week. Super cute, zippy, low to the ground, responsive, and has aux input (my número UNO requirement for rental cars.) The hookup this week!

No more naked iPhones

mayagrinberg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:04:01 +0000

I received a request to review the new see-thru hard shell iPhone case from Speck products. I said, “Heck yes! Send it over.” (Why? Because I wish to report to the public the truth and nothing but the truth about pretty gadgets and gizmos everywhere. But also because my own case was SO grimy and grubby that I was already pondering a new one, so the request couldn’t have come at a better time.)

The post is up at CuteGeek.com, where I have been contributing for the past couple of weeks. Go check it out! Geeky stories, from a girly perspective.

An excerpt:

When I first got my 3G, I was a little bit like those loonies who don’t want a case in order to preserve the mouth-breathing “WOW” factor, but I didn’t want it to get all scratched up in my purse, so I got the next best thing– an iPhone sock, which worked well for what I needed but got kind of grimy and lost its elasticity after a bit, so I had to launder it (and lather rinse repeat.) Also it just wasn’t that cute, so after I dropped my iPhone once straight on the floor with no sock on it, I decided enough was enough and I got an Incase rubberized flexible shell. I paid $20 for it in the Apple store, and it was pink…. (finish reading, and leave a comment while you’re at it! I will feel special.)

LoveVibes iPhone App

mayagrinberg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:45:07 +0000

I reviewed an app for CuteGeek, and that post is here. Visit the site for fun girly geek takes on…anything!

An excerpt of my review! (go see it on Cutegeek.com!)

I got an email last week asking that I check out this new iPhone app, with a redeem code for iTunes. My reaction? Sweet! Now I get to be added to the ranks of other such internet celebrities that have checked the app out and wrote about it, like Fake Steve Jobs, who wrote a funny little sentence about it possibly being a hoax.

Is the app, Love Vibes, a hoax? I don’t think it is. Does it have any more utility to you than a hoax would? It doesn’t.

What it is: the Love Vibes app supposedly can rate, on a scale of 1-10, how good you are in bed, using only your self-input bed hardness level and the accelerometer on your iPhone. Yes, it’s that easy. Just leave the phone on the bed when you’re doing the freak nasty, and when you’re done, it will calculate your mojo on a three dimensional scale– your levels of passion, variety, and duration….

Empowered business professionals of the female variety

mayagrinberg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:28:33 +0000

From a brief conversation I had with Diana about our new hotel for the week and how it has a full kitchen.

Google shows holiday spirit by sponsoring free wifi on ALL Virgin America flights through the holiday season

mayagrinberg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:40:41 +0000

How nice is this? I don’t have any Virgin flights booked this holiday season (yet) but if I did, this is a great perk and a generally nice thing, done by Google. Great marketing, great PR, great image. How much it cost may or may not be nominal, but all the goodwill it will generate among the masses of people (read: internet people) who appreciate wi-fi on an airplane will probs be worth it. GOOG. Quit being so…awesome. You know how there are Apple fanboys and people either love them (being fanpeople themselves) or hate them (to be anti-the MAN or whatever other reason)? Well…I’m a GOOG fangirl, for definitely.

Official Google Blog: Flying in a WiFi wonderland: Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights.

I can’t feel my butt.

mayagrinberg — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:10:00 +0000

LuLz.

I can’t feel my butt. « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?.

This is why I think dogs are the most amusing creatures on the planet

mayagrinberg — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:34:59 +0000

Dog Thwarted in Effort to Kill Self by Eating Fake Breast.

The best part of the article comes in one of the last paragraphs:

“The nurses gave another injection of the medicine. This time the floodgates opened. The dog vomited copious dog food, a moderate amount of grass, several small twigs, an ear plug, some yarn, and a fake breast, size B.

45 minutes later the dog was ready to go home.”

Oh, canines.

Easter Egg Hunt!

mayagrinberg — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:51:25 +0000

What in Erick Schonfeld’s article about the newly discovered mobile device friendly Google Wave app tickled me pink?

Take a good look at his screenshot of his Wave app, opened. It’s me in there! I had no idea until Leo twittered the link to the story, and I clicked through to read it. And then, Voila! The cake-eater, message 2!

Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone.