{"id":411,"date":"2006-06-23T17:48:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T00:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2006-06-23T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T00:48:54","slug":"technology-makes-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/06\/23\/technology-makes-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology makes me happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t have a ton of gadgets, personally.  I jumped on the iPod bandwagon about 2 years late, and I\u2019ve come to terms with the fact that for those years I wasn\u2019t realizing my \u201chip\u201d potential.  Still, reading about supercool tech gadgets has the power to make me giddy, so I guess I\u2019m a closet gadgeophile, despite myself.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re old-school like me (all relative, I know), you won\u2019t be able to help but love <a title=\"Hackers turns NES controller into a cell phone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.i4u.com\/article5851.html\">this modded NES-controller-turned-cell-phone<\/a>.  (Google ads displayed \u201cZelda Ringtone\u201d, which was so appropriate I guffawed.)<\/p>\n<p>On another note, for people who always bite the heads off their animal crackers before they eat the rest, <a title=\"USB teddy bear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/06\/18\/usb-teddy-bear-holds-data-scares-children\/\">someone has fabricated the perfect USB drive for you<\/a>.  Data storage has never been so deliciously sadistic.  Unfortunately they don\u2019t appear to be available for sale, but you could always make your own without too much trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the not-so-cute-and-actually-I\u2019m-kinda-scared category: <a title=\"giant panda robots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/06\/16\/giant-panda-robots-extinction-solved\/\">Giant Panda robots<\/a>.  Perhaps a <a title=\"Flameosapien\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/06\/16\/robosapien-v2-now-with-flame-thrower\/\">Flameosapien<\/a> will meet the beasts in battle and save humanity.  Or join them, in which case, we\u2019re fucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t have a ton of gadgets, personally. I jumped on the iPod bandwagon about 2 years late, and I\u2019ve come to terms with the fact that for those years I wasn\u2019t realizing my \u201chip\u201d potential. Still, reading about supercool tech gadgets has the power to make me giddy, so I guess I\u2019m a closet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}