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Anti-social App Cloak Will Help You Avoid People

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @12:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the first-rule-of-not-being-seen dept.

ancientt writes:

"Want to avoid someone and have iOS? With the app Cloak, you can. It will connect to Foursquare and Instagram (and soon others) to track people and alert you when they get too close.

The Washington Post quotes an email by the creator, "Personally, I think we've seen the crest of the big social network," Baker wrote in an e-mail. 'Things like Twitter and Facebook are packed elevators where we're all crammed in together ... I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects.'"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:12PM

    by evilviper (1760) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:12PM (#19727) Journal

    The socially dysfunctional can save both money and water, and let others do the avoiding.

    If you install a small grey-water system in your home (needs just a barrel and a pump), using your sink/shower water again to flush your toilets and possibly water your lawn, then there is zero water wasted from showering...

    Of course, that was never the biggest expense. Heating-up the water is what makes a shower expensive. Solar panels for water heating can make that pretty cheap, too, though still not really free.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:33PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:33PM (#19736)

    Of course, that was never the biggest expense. Heating-up the water is what makes a shower expensive.

    I guess that depends very much on where you are. I'd expect that in the middle of the Sahara, getting the water would be quite expensive, while heating it up would be basically free.

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    • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:13PM

      by evilviper (1760) on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:13PM (#19776) Journal

      As a desert dweller myself, I can assure you that water isn't much more expensive, and water heating is still very-much necessary, and dominates the cost.

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