Re: What use the stylus?
They exist - and you are right that the Vietnamese use them well - but you need to remember all the shortcuts to get the diacritics.
Not practical for an occasional user.
Posts by Dippywood
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What use the stylus?
I have a Note 4, and whilst I like the stylus, in most circumstances it is just a "nice thing to have."
However, there is something for which i have found it essential:- correctly entering Vietnamese text into Google Translate.
For those not in the know, Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics marking the tones, inflexions and guttural stops - having the wrong accents on your text will completely change it's meaning. Since camera input does not work, being able to write the word is very useful, and saves trying to remember the keyboard trickery required to get the right diacritics in the appropriate places.
Since I am married into a Vietnamese family, this is a life-saver!
Niche perhaps, but suits me!
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Warm Seats
I have always thought that the only thing worse than a cold seat is a warm one, since that normally implies that you are a follow-on visitor...
That said, having encountered one of these beasties some years ago in a Japanese-owned hotel in Vietnam, I was left thinking that a small screen on the cubicle door running an animated instructional video might be amusing - just think of the fun one could have with the graphics!
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Re: They'll connect the hub to the smart beer fridge...
Perhaps it's a fridge for smart beer...
I would assume that smart beer would contain a "chemical fingerprint" (a la smart water) that would only be apparent once the beer rental period was complete. A quick flash of UV light on the walls and pavements near pubs would show the "audit trails" and allow the problem to be traced back to source.
Now, combining this with the "quick jolt of 230V" mentioned elsewhere and you have a self-correcting and auditable scheme for tackling this particular anti-social habit. But I digress...
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