{"id":459,"date":"2005-02-22T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2005-02-22T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:03:17","slug":"ikapsel-hasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/02\/ikapsel-hasa\/","title":{"rendered":"iKapsel Hasa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iPod Shuffle arrived<\/a> en masse<\/em> in Stockholm yesterday, and I stood in line to acquire mine — they were selling like semlor<\/a> and looked about as delicious.<\/p>\n

Cut to the few things that struck me about the Shuffle that I have not<\/em> yet read about:<\/p>\n

  • It brings back an unheralded feature from the first generation iPod that was excised in subsequent models: Click buttons. With the 1G, you could keep it in your trouser pocket and peck away at it through the fabric on a crowded commute. This might have looked slightly perverse, but I could tell which the Next\/Fast Forward button was by feeling its relative position, and use it to skip tracks in a shuffled lineup. This was all I needed to do for the duration of a commute — and the Shuffle is basically that feature, productized.<\/li>\n
  • The Shuffle’s size and weight are in effect negligble, which makes the wall of sound it can produce all the more shocking. I wanted to take it out jogging right away.<\/li>\n

    Oh, and today I learned that att avfukta<\/em> means to dehumidify<\/em> in Swedish, and not what you might think it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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