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Tablets are useful devices. One of their main advantages is
portability.
However, it is unwise to transport a tablet without enclosing it in
some
sort of protective case when not in use.
The problem is that the cases provided by both manufacturers and
aftermarket vendors all too often look
like - despite being made of
tough, woven black polypropylene - handbags.
There. We've said the H-word.
This is Not Good.
Fortunately, the designers at BorgCo have come up with a solution
to
this problem.
The new BorgCo tablet* case is made of gunmetal-grey titanium. It
has
flashing status LEDs and a small touchscreen; there is a fixed 2.4
GHz
end-fed antenna, and a fold-out mesh dish antenna. It has an
integral
Li-ion powerpack, a laser pointer, an LED flashlight, a universal
mains
adaptor, a USB hub, and a cellphone charging dock. There is a
sheath
for a survival knife, and the shoulder strap is rated for climbing and
attached with real carabiners. When opened up (it's a clamshell
design) it can be worn around the neck as an impromptu bullet-
proof
vest, protecting the thorax and upper abdomen.
And if you drop it with your tablet inside it, the tablet will be
protected.
And you won't look like a girl.
*Android devices only. Inserting any device running iOS into the
case
triggers the self-destruct mechanism.
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This sort of visible compensation for insecurity might fool children, but adults generally see it for what it is. Nothing impresses like confidence and strength neither of which is conveyed by making dramatic efforts to avoid being perceived as "looking like a girl". No matter what else it looks like, cowering in the fear that someone will misjudge you looks pathetic. |
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Want to look great and have nobody mistake who you are? Do what you like, wear what appeals to you and live like you don't give two shits what some stranger is going to think. |
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He's right, [8th]. Do what [WcW] says - don't listen
to anybody. |
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//Don't listen to anybody.// |
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Yeah, try that when you're a Borg. |
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Better watch out MB, your use of logic is making you look like a girl. |
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Maybe, but my tablet case is hewn from granite, and
has spikes. |
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//shouulder strap//
This single extra vowel makes the whole idea text sound in my head like Kenneth Williams is saying it. |
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Can you add a det cord shoulder strap option? |
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Oh alright (+)... as long as the tough, woven black polypropylene accessories don't make my mascara run. |
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//as long as the tough, woven black polypropylene accessories don't make my mascara run |
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It's a devil, isn't it..... |
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Touchscreen sporran ? You should post that,
[poc]. |
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Only south of the border....and that's not some kind of euphemism if you're wondering |
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[WcW] Men are different from women. Manly things have been associated
with similar concepts across disparate cultures throughout history. To
pretend this difference doesn't exist is just silly. One major theme in manly
things has been utilitarianism. (not in the philosophical sense) Pretending
anything is manly as long as you're being tough about it ignores this fact and
in the long run just won't stand. |
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I think it would be more "utilitarian" if the "self-destruct" mechanism was instead a "tablet destruct" mechanism. Then the case would survive to be usable for the type of tablet it is designed to hold. |
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//One major theme in manly things has been utilitarianism. |
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Erm, that's a bit debatable, utilitarianism is more of a recent thing....I was going to say puritanism, but them stoopid stove-pipe hats were not exactly utilitarian... |
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I'm thinking more pharoahs wearing eyeliner to the real pirates*, the version of what is manly has changed a lot.. |
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* I mean like the ones with royal charters, wandering around the world ripping people off, saying "I claim this land for the Crown, and god help the natives" and all done in silk stockings and (what would now be seen as) girly shoes |
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The whole "men be different from women" is as tired a defense for masculine insecurities as I have ever heard [Voice] . I made no assertion about toughness or that men and women were the same. What I did attempt to assert is that gender is largely what you make of it. Loud attempts to advertise that you are fitting into a social gender mode are red flags for insecurity about your identity and your ability to distinguish between and internal rational sense of self that is organic to your nature and an identity dictated to you by your social mode. Yes, we can tell the difference and yes, it matters. |
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What wcw said... possibly. |
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There is something a little odd in one of the 90% of the population who are heterosexual trying really hard to show they are one of the 90%... |
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tired? That just means you still haven't come up with a decent aguemtn
against it. Eyeliner on pirates and silk stockings on invaders don't count for
much when compared against the heavy full cloak of frills women of those
cultures were wearing at the same time. |
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You want to see deliberate differentiation into one group as desperate and
insecure because you disagree with the attempt. You don't have any real
reason to call it such, it just makes you uncomfortable so you want to put it
down. One's identity can echo one group or another without in itself
becoming thereby less worthy. |
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//one of the 90% of the population who// claim to be //heterosexual trying really hard to show they are one of the 90%// |
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Erm, well on a probability basis, they would be part
of the 90%....9 out of 10 times. That`s the problem
of being part of a large majority, it all gets a bit
predictable. |
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As for what Voice said, perhaps it`s cos i`m tired and
hungry, but I don`t understand it. |
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However, I refute categorically ever having had an
aguemtn..perish the thought. |
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