{"id":1101,"date":"2005-11-15T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2005-11-15T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T07:30:54","slug":"so-close-and-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1101","title":{"rendered":"So close, and yet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidseitzinger.com\">David<\/a> for pointing this out to me: my dreamed-of iPod wristwatch control is <a title=\"Welcome to Scosche Industries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scosche.com\/scosche_ipod.aspx?CategoryID=127&#038;ItemID=IPRFES\">almost a reality<\/a>.  The trouble is, these guys did a rotten job of executing the concept: for starters, if you look at the controls they&#8217;re <i>oriented the wrong way,<\/i> so to use them properly you&#8217;d have to hold your wrist straight out in front of you instead of looking at it like a wristwatch.  Second, <i>there&#8217;s no wristwatch<\/i> &#150; this device should have the watch built in and a way to switch between the digital clock face and a readout of track listings and so on.  And third, this sucker won&#8217;t work with the new iPods and nanos, which lack the little tab slot on the top.  Three strikes and you&#8217;re out, Scosche &#150; but please practice up and come back for another swing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to David for pointing this out to me: my dreamed-of iPod wristwatch control is almost a reality. The trouble is, these guys did a rotten job of executing the concept: for starters, if you look at the controls they&#8217;re oriented the wrong way, so to use them properly you&#8217;d have to hold your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-hL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}