Check out MSN's list of top gadgets; the Hiptop/Sidekick is #2 and the iPod is #1. I've been mulling over an iPod purchase more and more lately, if only as an excuse to buy something at the new King of Prussia Apple Store. But while I think more on that, here's some collected Strange (But True) Tales of My Hiptop.
Last night I had to use an unfamiliar bathroom. I entered, and the lights were out... and there was no switch to be found in the usual place. When I say "usual place," I mean "the wall." So I spend some time feeling around the near walls - which already creeps me out because I'm fondling a strange bathroom wall - and still no luck. Buy this time, I really have to piss. So out comes the Hiptop, and that beautiful backlit screen. Holding it straight out of The X-Files, the friendly glow of the Hiptop was able to guide me to the urinal, where the traditional activity could begin.
I've terribly glad that I didn't have wireless internet during college. I used the thing throughout the entirety of a two hour Disney On Ice show. Not because I wasn't watching or enjoying Disney On Ice (or as we dubbed it, Kingdom Hearts On Ice), but simply because I could. I was IMing with Scott and Marci, and trolling the Animal Crossing message boards, all while the Disney Princesses frolicked on the ice below. My work ethic is college was awful. Having a Hiptop in class may very well have done me in.
I had the wind kicked out of my sails on my very first day of Hiptop ownership. I had just brought it home, when Matt came over to play Rogue Leader (he's my young friend I mentioned last week.) I was waiting for the wireless service to establish and I showed him how the screen flips up. In a sort of jaded tone, he remarked "Oh, a spellchecker."
