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I Wish This Plaudit Pin Was More Like A Wristpad
All I could think of when I saw this unusual item was - wristpad:
PLAUD NotePin。購入2ヶ月で紛失した私は心の底から共感できます。
PLAUD NotePin. I lost mine just two months after buying it, and I can empathize with that from the bottom of my heart.
The sense of loss from misplacing it was so overwhelming that I bought another one. I swear I'll never let go of this one for the rest of my life.
Kim Stanley Robinson describes the wristpad from Red Mars (1992):
紛失の喪失感が大きすぎて、再購入しました。もう一生今も離れらません❤️ https://t.co/WCJUhD97Dd
Frank was cursing into his wristpad, switching between Arabic and English. Trying vainly to find out what had happened... Nadia looked fearfully at the little images on her wrist, directing the robot cameras with dread. Shattered rovers. Some bodies. Nothing moved. One rover still smoked.
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