[Story] Counter-brag: What a Choding!
Thursday, August 10th 2011
Tony was bored in school. He was staring out the window, thinking what he’s going to do when he goes home. Tony snapped out of his thinking-immersion when his friend – James – startled him by letting out a boisterous laugh. “Check this out guys! I got a new touch-phone and a new full-touch mp3!”
As the first impression, Tony thought to himself, ‘hmm. Pretty shiny, I agree. But I think they’re a bit too big. Also, now he has to carry both if he wanted to listen to music outside – I mean, they look similar in the first place, why not merge it – like my Haptic Palm?
Haptic Palm: Size
Haptic Palm is a full-touch based cell phone similar to the already existing Haptic phones. However, Haptic phones tend to be longer than other phones. Thus, to remedy such inconvenience, Haptic Palm is a little bit ‘squished’ in a way that the width is increased and the length is decreased. It literally fits in anyone’s palm!
Haptic Palm: MP3
Unlike the conventional cell-phone-only formatted music and earphones, Haptic Palm breaks the barrier and plays mp3 files, not to mention how it has an earphone port. This way, people don’t have to waste any of their pockets by carrying both an mp3 player and a cell phone.
James looked embarrassed, but ignored my phone and continued touching his phone. Friends who surrounded him were envious of the fact that a cell phone can be operated by his fingertips. Although Tony hated getting cocky about his possessions, Tony showed James and the crowd the multi-touching function.
Haptic Palm: Multi-touch-ability
The function of the fingertips evolves on Haptic Palm. Unlike the conventional way of navigating through touch-based cell phones that involved only poking and dragging, Haptic Palm involves movements such as spinning, using two fingers, sliding etc. This way, people can have more fun, carrying out many more functions more efficiently at the same time.
Now the crowd was around Tony’s desk, not James’s. Tony realizes that he should have been more modest; but it was a bit too late, for the crowd was already tossing around Tony’s phone in attempts to get a hold of it.
Through the struggle, Tony escaped to James’s desk. “Fine, your phone’s better. Leave me alone.” Though Tony found James’s sullenness pretty cute, he decided to make it up. “Don’t be pissed about something you shouldn’t be pissed about dumbo. I’ll buy dinner tonight. Wanna come with?” James’s face brightened up in the speed of light. Tony thought to himself, ‘he’s still a choding (elementary school students [slang]) inside.’
