Quotes About Portability

Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

there's laptops

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

But this is something new!' said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.

Consumers and businesses alike value their ability to keep a phone number when changing providers or relocating. This concept is called 'number portability.'

I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

carrying a mobile phone and an electronic diary. A short stocky

I always have either nuts, Luna bars, or fruit in my bag. A pack of instant oatmeal is also good to carry because it's a quick, nutritious meal you can make almost anywhere.

I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.

Some had Walkmen

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Online entertainment is easy. You can't carry a TV set in your pocket, and everyone can't afford cinema tickets every week as they are expensive.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

Noted by McLuhan, "The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the cult of individualism.