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April 4, 2014 Page 13
Get Up and Go First iPod, then iPhone, then iPad. Now THIS from a Shoe Company?
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or Christmas last year my wife gave me a thick rubber wristband that looked like the sort of thing you wear to show support for breast cancer research or that you paid to get into a rock concert. Those are usually pink or green. This one, however, is black. “What’s this?” I asked. “You wanted a wristwatch,” she said. “This is a wristwatch and more. Look for the button.” There was a circular place on it, slightly raised, also black, barely distinguishable from the rest of the thing. I pressed it. Inside, under the rubber but visible through it, bright white lights formed into a digital version of the exact time. Five seconds went by and the lights went back out. “Press it again,” she said. The second time I pressed it, the lights formed the word FUEL, automatically went dark and then reformed with the number 0, which also, after a moment, also went dark. “That monitors your exercise workout,” she said. “The more you move it, the more your hear beats, the more steps you take, the higher the number.” I shook it and pressed it again twice. This time it read “6.”
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I have fallen in love with this device. It can’t fall off. It clips on like a bracelet and is a bit loose there, rattling around, but it won’t slip off and it won’t come off until you unclip it and slide it sideways off your wrist. The literature said it was waterproof. Later, I went online and read others noting yes, it’s waterproof, but take it off while swimming or in the shower. Why take the chance? I have worn this device day and night except when doing the above things, or when I charge it up. You charge it by unclipping it. Where it is unclipped, one end is plastic and rubber, but the other is a metal USB plug. Stick it into the USB port on your computer. There it sits, unclipped, curled over your laptop, recharging its battery. If only I could do that. This is the new thing. The last new thing, in my opinion, was the iPad. Before that the new thing was the iPhone. And before that was the iPod. This, however, is not an i Anything. Steve Jobs is gone. This is, surprisingly, by Nike. I wondered who would pick up this ball and come up with the next big thing. Here it is. From a shoe company. And it works for me for at least three reasons. One is, I am ordinarily a lazy slug. The second is, I don’t like wearing wrist watches because wrist watches make you (Cont’d on next page)
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Dan Rattiner’s third memoir, Still in the Hamptons is now online and at all bookstores. You can also buy the first two In the Hamptons and In the Hamptons, TOO. A fourth in the series will be published in the spring of 2015.
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