Badly Explained Dashboards
A jewelry box with a collection of mood rings. If the rings are green, the robots are happy, but if they are red, the robots are currently having a collective nervous breakdown.
What is Overview Dashboard?
Also accepted: What is the Workload dashboard?
Choco & Latte
Who is Youngjun?
While creating a strong adhesive for the aerospace industry, a scientist accidentally made a weak one for these.
What are Post It Notes?
Before iPhones, this 2000s handheld device with a physical keyboard was the ultimate status symbol for business people and celebrities.
What is a BlackBerry?
It’s a scoreboard that tells you how many magic computer coins called "Supernatural Vanishing Coins" you’ve used.
What is Workload Dashboard?
Mihawk
Who is Parul?
In 1945, an engineer noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted while he stood near a magnetron.
What is a microwave?
This 1990s digital pet lived on a keychain and would die if you forgot to feed or play with it for too long.
What is a Tamagotchi?
A tattle-tale crystal ball that tracks everyone’s shenanigans to help you decide who gets a gold star and who gets a locked account.
What is the User Activity Dashboard?
Also accepted: Value Insights (Usage), Search Usage
Toby & Decibel
Who is Jakub?
This flexible, springy toy was invented when a naval engineer dropped a tension spring and watched it walk across the floor instead of just falling.
What is a Slinky?
This 1970s home video format lost the "format war" to VHS, despite many people thinking its picture quality was actually superior.
What is Betamax?
If you see a red light on your storage closet door, it means it's full and you need to start deciding which digital memories are worth keeping and which ones to chuck into the cold basement.
What is Storage Summary?
Finn
Who is Kaetlyn?
Originally intended as a wallpaper cleaner to remove coal soot from walls, this found a second life in classrooms and toy boxes.
What is Play-Doh?
This two-wheeled personal transporter was hyped to change the world in 2001, but mostly just became the preferred vehicle of mall security.
What is a Segway?
The toddler report. The nanny tells you exactly which chunks your picky-eater pushed to the side of their plate because they weren't chopped into the right-sized squares.
What is the Indexing > Data Quality Dashboard?
Pendleton & Puma
Who is Bridget?
Alchemists were searching for an elixir for eternal life; instead, they mixed saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal to create this fire medicine.
What is Gunpowder?
This social media platform, launched by Google in 2011 to compete with Facebook, was officially shut down in 2019 after failing to gain traction.
What is Google+?