{"id":681,"date":"2004-11-04T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T12:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/04\/sweet-things-are-made-of-these-kpa"},"modified":"2004-11-04T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T12:16:05","slug":"sweet-things-are-made-of-these-kpaqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/04\/sweet-things-are-made-of-these-kpaqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet things are made of these… [KPAQs–]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

I have on the table before me a device designed with the utmost
\nbrilliance.  I
\nhaven’t seen such a quietly pleasing design in a gadget-package in
\nrecent memory.  Some of you know that I was aiming to purchase
\nat
\nleast a phone and a laptop this week, but I did not end up with the
\nDanger Sidekick<\/span> I
\nwas angling for…<\/p>\n

The sidekick I understand – delightful design, with a number of
\ncharming flaws, and a few unfortunate barriers to improvement; a good,
\nand reasonable inexpensive, 1-year purchase to replace my ailing
\nphone.  A few troubles arose: 1) they no longer offer the
\n‘old’
\nsidekick in-store, in favor of the ‘new’ one (which is admittedly
\nsturdier and a better heft, but $100 more and with a less perfect
\nkeyboard), and 2) I fell in love, just in time, with something
\nelse.<\/p>\n

I discovered the first functional pda-phone<\/span> I’ve ever seen.  And I
\ndiscovered it by chance, simply because its attachable thumb-keyboard
\nis so brilliant.<\/span> 
\nAs I was filling out the paperwork for my sidekick, I was chatting with
\nthe rep about good mini-keyboards (or the lack thereof) and he showed
\nme the attachable keyboard for the iPaq <\/span>6315. 
\nIt was light, the width of the pda, looked breakable, but had smooth,
\nresponsive buttons that didn’t rattle or distress.  crazy<\/span>. 
\nIt was only then that I stopped to look at the awful pda-sized blob of
\nplascrete, no doubt like ever other such blob, and thought, ‘hmm, not
\nexecrable.’  I cancelled my pending order… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have on the table before me a device designed with the utmost brilliance.  I haven’t seen such a quietly pleasing design in a gadget-package in recent memory.  Some of you know that I was aiming to purchase at least a phone and a laptop this week, but I did not end up with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}