Disturbing thing sighted at Filene's

[dmaze]

A classic Atari joystick. Except, instead of the DB-9 connector, the end of the cable has two RCA connectors. Huh? It turns out that 20 years' worth of Moore's Law lets you put an entire Atari game console, plus 10 game cartridges, inside the joystick case, the switches on the console move to the front of the joystick, and the other end of the cable has video and audio out.

Okay, some of the lingerie was pretty disturbing too. "Extra fuzzy at the bust line" is...odd. Though the men's red satin thong with a white ball on the front was pretty distressing too. And the music was disturbing. Yeah. Disturbing all around.

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[eichin.livejournal.com]

Urban Outfitters has had them in the window for a while, and EB at the maul has them too... thinkgeek had them *last* xmas, IIRC. But yeah, it's a great concrete representation of moore's law, except that it still undershoots the curve :-)

It's also a reminder that "small" is not the lower-bound size limit, "elsewhere" is. A phone shrinking to just an earbud, for example. "The use case for a wristwatch isn't about optimizing wrist mounting - it's about knowing what time it is".