Five Antisocial Gadgets That Should Be Banned
A strange one, you might think, given my love of the e-book. Lightweight, convenient and offering hundreds of titles in your pocket, the e-book is surely a perfect gadget. It can’t even annoy your fellow-travellers on public transport. But it has a secret agenda: to destroy romance itself.
You might remember that I hollowed out a Moleskine notebook to hide my iPod Touch, the theory being that while a handsome young man reading a paperback and sipping a coffee at a pavement café would attract the ladies, a nerd reading an e-book would not.
My theory was proved correct this week. Sipping a glass of wine and looking very intellectual, I finished reading the last page of my book (something by Paul Auster, if you must know). I switched to my iPod Touch (without the Molekine prophylactic). Just then, the pretty girl at the next table turned around and, with a flirtatious smile, asked what I was doing.
“Reading” I said
“Reading?” she asked, tipping her lovely head to a rather coquettish angle.
“Yes,” I replied, “I’m reading a book on my iPod.”
She glanced down at the device in front of me.
“Reading a book on your iPod?”
As I nodded she simply turned away, brow slightly furrowed. I went home alone.
Geez. Being a reader never gets you the girl, does it? :P
posted by pgenrestories at 8:32 AM
3 Comments:
If she don't read, she ain't worth takin' home.
Such standards! :)
You tell very informative things and i got your five gadget which should be banned. I agree with you and i hope this will be implement very soon.You tell the fact latest IT newsnow only we have to follow it.
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