{"id":16191,"date":"2010-01-17T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/01\/type-n-walk-n-not-die.html"},"modified":"2010-01-17T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T13:05:49","slug":"type_n_walk_n_not_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/type_n_walk_n_not_die\/","title":{"rendered":"Type-n-Walk (&#039;n Not Die)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sobering, though unsurprising, to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/17\/technology\/17distracted.html?th&amp;emc=th\">&#8220;distracted walking&#8221; due to cellphones<\/a> now routinely lands people in the emergency room.  Being a nervous parent who yet can&#8217;t help getting bored while his toddler relocates the umpteenth pile of wood chips at the park, I&#8217;m always afraid of becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/mis24x30prin.html\">cautionary tale<\/a>: <em>The Guy Whose Kid Fell Down A Well While Dad Tweeted<\/em> or something.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.type-n-walk.com\/\">Type-n-Walk<\/a> proposes a novel (if only partial) solution&#8211;a video feed of the real world that runs underneath your text:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GZf3pmB_bE4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Via Michael Coleman]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sobering, though unsurprising, to hear that &#8220;distracted walking&#8221; due to cellphones now routinely lands people in the emergency room. Being a nervous parent who yet can&#8217;t help getting bored while his toddler relocates the umpteenth pile of wood chips at the park, I&#8217;m always afraid of becoming a cautionary tale: The Guy Whose Kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}