[lit-ideas] Re: lit gr8s
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:28:14 -0800
Paul Stone wrote:
ON the one hand, it is truly amazing how able some people are at texting
with phones, palms etc. On the other hand [sometimes, on both] there is
actually a new syndrome ['texter's thumbs'] that is being seen more and
more by doctors. Hours and hours of tapping out silly coded messages on
miniature keyboards is probably NOT what our hands were made for.
The population is aging (or part of it is), yet keypads and screens are
getting smaller. It occurred to me, in an Einsteinian moment, that a
fortune could be made by producing LARGER keypads for older folk, of
whom there would soon be billions. I was explaining this to my son last
summer. He whipped out a device about the size of an old British
shilling, and said to it 'Sally's* cell phone.' Whereupon, it began to
'dial' the cell phone in question.
I'm still looking for the next buzzworthy thing.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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*Names have been changed to protect the uninvolved.
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