I've said before how surprise pressies are often the most memorable (and the most enduring) for me. Well my significant other gave me a completely unexpected New Year's present! Unwrapping a tiny package wrapped in bright paper left me puzzled ... until it was explained to me that it was an iPod Nano.
Is it just me, or does it sometimes (just sometimes) seem like aspects of real life knock the socks off imaginary worlds? The Tracy brothers didn't have anything like this, and I'm pretty sure Captain Kirk didn't either. Sometimes amongst all the mundanities of modern life something comes along that deserves a "Wow!"
It's things like this which remind me how clever our species is. A good thought to begin a new year.
Hoping 2012 is a wonderful year for all of us, and a year of dreams coming true. (raises a glass to you all).
OK, I'm going to ask,
ReplyDeletewhat does an Ipod Nano do?
Do you remember the old "Walkman" personal cassette-players? Well, think of it as a 21st century version of that.
ReplyDeleteAbout the size of a book of matches (do they still make those?) but a little thicker, it stores 8Gb (yes, Gb, not Mb) of digital audio. Apart from the on-off switch and the volume, it's all controlled by touch-screen: you flick from screen to screen and tap on whatever it is you want it to do.
I get that might not excite some - perhaps might do quite the opposite. Let's face it, public transport journeys were bad enough BEFORE all this personal-entertainment stuff. It's no fun sitting next to someone and being forced to hear the tinny, 2nd-hand noise of one going full blast. But non-the-less, I am astonished by the way technology has advanced in my lifetime. The latter is what I'm so enthusiastic about.
Well, that, and being able to listen to Bach when stuck in a supermarket queue or having someone read Jane Austen to me as I potter about.
Thanks PT.
ReplyDeleteSounds a bit like a gramophone...
Nice to have you aboard Toadster, our newest 'blogger'! Welcome to the cruise. A lovely first post and here's to many more. Happy New Year Toad.
ReplyDeleteis that the hand of Toad I see before me ? I have to say im suitably impressed, i often steal my daughters ipod Touch, a sort of iphone sized version of the nano, with internet capability - its a piece of modern day magic. Reminiscent of the star trek communicators without the spider like display, they are a modern wonder. Ive yet to see a nano close up, but thevery idea sounds fab!
ReplyDelete(blush) Yes it's one of them, Wote. But there is another. The left one has often fancied a career in modelling, and the right has longed to direct movies. So it all worked out happily.
ReplyDeleteIs the iPod Touch the one like a mobile phone? Have to admit I am new to all this technology. But do take a look at the nano if you get a chance. I'm blown away by the sheer amazingness each time I switch it on. How can something that small do things like that?