Though he's best known as a leading and fearless voice among conservatives, Rush Limbaugh is also a tech aficionado who keeps his finger on the pulse of what's coming next.
With the Apple Watch due out this month, Limbaugh on his radio show today said he's "not hot to trot for it" yet but sees possibilities for the gizmo that its creators may have missed.
In the unlikely event that Limbaugh decides to put radio behind him, he could have a promising future in app development (audio) --
How about if the Apple Watch could somehow determine if the country or if the state or even the city that the watch-wearer is in oppresses women, gays or Christians and Jews or minorities? What happens if your watch could tell you if you are an oppressor? What happens if the Apple Watch could tell you you live in a place where gays were oppressed, blacks are oppressed? Then you wouldn't have to wonder. You would know that you are in a place where there's rampant racism and bigotry and homophobia and the Apple Watch could be the one to tell you that.
I'm not suggesting that right under the correct time on the watch there should be a smiley face or a frowning face or any of that. The owner could enter in the settings, their gender, their sexual preference and their religion, and that way if the Apple Watch wearer enters a country whose laws are overtly hostile to women, gays, Christians and Jews, the watch could issue some kind of alert or warning to warn you. It's a great idea, is it not? ...
After a break, the ideas kept flowing --
Now look, the Apple Watch is supposed to keep people healthy. I mean, that's one of the big selling points. How about an app, the Apple Watch that warns you, say, when you enter Ferguson, Mo.? Or any other place where there's racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia. Think of this -- liberals could be saved traversing to irritating, unwanted places with the Apple Watch just giving them a couple of beeps or a siren or whatever. ...
You could have an app, a warning siren on the Apple Watch for women when they're about to step on an American college campus, some kind of alert or something could warn them of imminent attack by male students. Maybe even a minor electrical shock provided by the watch if they enter a frat house.
I mean, if (Apple CEO) Tim Cook is going to insert the company into the American cultural and political fray, why not take it deep with the watch?How about this -- how about an automatic 911 call when female Apple Watch owners come within 50 yards of Bill Cosby? Or Bill Clinton. ... No, 25 yards, if you're wearing an Apple Watch, you're a woman, you get within 25 yards of Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby, automatic 911 call goes out with your location. I mean, the possibilities here are endless.
And if the Apple Watch discovers you are conservative it could give you a huge shock using all of its battery power, making sure you never put the thing back on again if you do things to indicate to the Apple Watch that you are a racist, sexist, bigot homophobe and therefore an undesirable.
Or how about an app that emits a foul stench, one befitting rank hypocrisy, if the wearer is a CEO who implies he won't do business among alleged homophobes in Indiana while still doing business with actual homophobes in Saudi Arabia?
