At some point, 'practicality' stops being the interesting question. What's left is how identical everything has become.I've been thinking about that a lot lately, because most of the devices I carry now (phone, earbuds, handhelds, whatever) all blur into the same familiar slab of glass and design. Even when they're technically different, they don't feel different anymore. I could swap logos around on half the devices I carry and I wouldn't notice. But then something like Anbernic’s RG Rotate shows up.It's not subtle about what it's trying to be. It flips! It doesn't try to disappear in your pocket in the same way everything else does. If anything, it wants to be noticed because it is such a breath of fresh air. It's the kind of thing that immediately drags your mind back to a different era of gadgets entirely. Not just gaming, but phones too, when companies were still experimenting with shape, movement, and interaction instead of refining the same rectangle over and over. Devices like…
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