Toasting a cell phone

It's toast...

Charging up…

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Elsa: I see you’ve gathered all your devices onto a charging station.

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Nikola: Aach. The kitchen bench was a spaghetti mess. I came out one morning and found my cell phone in the toaster.

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Elsa: Crisp?

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Nikola: Charged by induction.

Charge!

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Voice-over

Devices needing regular charging, phones, tablets, computers, e-readers, need organizing. Sharing a power source with fiber-optic modem and router, the charging table localizes cable chaos.

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Stickerese: A new texting dialect

A text exchange…

Tonight?

Studying.

Tomorrow?

Partying.

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Voice-over

Recently the number of texts has been declining somewhat while the number of pictures sent by texting services has been sharply rising. Pictures are breaking into genres and dialects such as photographese, sketchese and stickerese. Even movies...

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A DIAL telephone?

Elana tells Maria that her mother doesn’t have a cell phone.

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Elana: I bought her one and she just put it in a drawer and won’t use it.

Maria: Why bother?

Elana: It’s her heart. It sometimes stops and I worry she might have an attack when I’m not there.

Maria: There’s a telephone in the house isn’t there?

Elana: An old one, I mean it’s not even a push-button type. It’s got a round thing on the front… with holes, you know?

Maria: A telephone you actually have to DIAL?

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Voice-over

The digital divide becomes the social divide. You can certainly live without computers and cell phones, it is possible, yes. But negotiating with people who don’t use them can be difficult like sending an email or arranging a meeting point. It’s like encountering inhabitants from a parallel universe. Thinking of what to say to Robinson Crusoe. Or is this an overreaction?

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