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Thursday, June 24, 2004

A Flipping Flip Phone

Again, I say: about freaking time. My cell phone junked out on me, and I replaced it with a Motorola flip-phone, and I am completely Underwhelmed. You can mistake these things for the cheap plastic shit you get out of the coin-operating vending machines at the entrance of grocery stores. They can engineer the phones as small as a book of matches, but never think to change the format (remember the tiny flip phone in Zoolander?). Millions of dollars on marketing research for useless information like "Brushed Nickel is the New Black" and "People on their cell phones cause lots of motor vehicle accidents" but they never tried to hold a flip phone up to their ear with their shoulder to free up their hands while driving and eating a salad with chopsticks. That's real-world design research, pal. So, years later, some engineer sees an episode of Star Trek, and thinks, "Hey, what a great idea! A cell phone you can wear! Well, you could use that without your hands!"

NO SHIT, Sherlock.

On and on,
-C

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