this is so banal.
so, the Edge arrived.
it is refurbished, you know. i can see what happened to this one. it was dropped on the upper-right corner, bending the blue front faceplate and a little of the black plastic “bumper”.
and because this has a — whee! — fourteen-day warranty, the back plate has a “security label” over one of the retaining screws to prevent it from being opened or having plates switched. fortunately, the front plates uses a different set of screws.
so, i carefully changed the front faceplate with my old red one. it’s a bummer, really, since the blue isn’t unattractive by any stretch. but it’s a bit scratched and bent, so off it comes.
if this thing takes a charge and works for me, i’ll change out the back plate and make it red, too, in about two weeks.
maybe one day, if i’m feeling really silly and adventurous, i’ll become a “633k 541v463 y4rd” for Handspring Visor Edges, buying dead units from people on the cheap and piecing together the parts that aren’t damaged and function just fine.
and to think that IDEO is responsible for my sad obsession with preserving their industrial design, long after the product is scrapped.
seriously, i’m just grateful — inherently so — that i have a brain again. anything to curtail the ADD firestorm that plays out in my head every single day.
for now, though, my new-refurbished Visor Edge looks remarkably like my late aunt’s old Dodge Duster (or whatever it was), replete with body panels in red, maroon, blue and white.
wow. watch me tap into my inner-trailer trashness, 21st century-style!
up next: adding those custom hydraulic Springboard Modules for that PDA “low-rider” effect.
BLING-BLING!