Tony is a Geek

Back in the day, I purchased one of these phones.  ( Wow! was it really in 2013?...I suppose it must have been )   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE_Open The cool thing about it at the time was, it wasn't Android, Apple or Microsoft.  It had it's own OS and had the potential to investigate "other options" for apps.  As it was backed by Firefox / Mozilla, it made sense that it was driven by the Web and more specifically, Web apps that run in web browsers.  Hey, that suited me fine, s'what I've been mostly doing since, well, since, for far too long. Whilst I have no issue, when the need requires,  to code for a native Android java app, or flip my head the other way and code in Swift for an iOS device, it did kind of irk me that I had to start following the code religion camps again... it also conflicted that I wasn't focused on just coding for the device itself, but having to code for the server-side APIs and usually a web app that also offered the...

original article HERE. At first glance, the ProPILOT Park Ryokan looks like any other traditional Japanese inn, or ryokan. Slippers are neatly lined up at the foyer, where guests remove their shoes. Tatami rooms are furnished with low tables and floor cushions for sitting. What sets this ryokan apart is that the slippers, tables and cushions are rigged with a special version of Nissan's ProPILOT Park autonomous parking technology. When not in use, they automatically return to their designated spots at the push of a button. For its primary application,  Nissan's ProPILOT Park system  uses an array of four cameras and twelve sonar sensors to wedge its host vehicle into even the smallest of parking spaces—whether it's nose-in parking, butt-in parking, or trickiest of all, parallel parking. It seems unlikely that the slippers use quite the same technology, although Nissan does suggest that the technology is at least similar, which would mean that the slippers are opera...