{"id":2905,"date":"2011-08-15T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:25:20","slug":"please-stop-calling-gadgets-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/please-stop-calling-gadgets-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;Please Stop Calling Gadgets Sexy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5828807\/please-stop-calling-gadgets-sexy\">Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walt Mossberg!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20090429\/dell-aims-for-style-with-new-laptop-and-family-model\/\">Please explain to me exactly how you intend to use this Dell touch screen in a sexually stimulating way<\/a>! David Pogue!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/indexes\/2008\/04\/03\/technology\/circuitsemail\/index.html#continue\">Where, exactly, did you put your penis in this Macbook Air<\/a>? Joshua Topolsky! I know it is significantly smaller than the original, but, I am genuinely flummoxed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/03\/09\/ipad-2-review\/\">how in the world did you fit an iPad2 in your ass<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what drives me crazy beyond the sexual lingo around new gadgets? &#8220;It feels good in your hand.&#8221; There are a few extra ways to put this statement but every new phone feels &#8220;great in the hand&#8221; and I&#8217;m not quite sure what that means. Does that mean it doesn&#8217;t electrocute you or hurt? Everything feels good in the hand if you read every review. It&#8217;s a weird thing to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gizmodo: Walt Mossberg!\u00a0Please explain to me exactly how you intend to use this Dell touch screen in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-KR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3617,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/but-does-it-feel-good-in-the-hand\/","url_meta":{"origin":2905,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;But Does It Feel Good In The Hand?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via Buzzfeed (can't believe I'm linking to that atrocious site): When it comes to reviewing a new gadget, all that really matters is the answer to one simple question. 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