so Lenovo approached us about sponsoring a piece showcasing their new Lenovo Yoga
book it's a thin light Android tablet with high-end specs including an Intel
Atom Processor 64 gigs of storage and 4 gigs of RAM and a touch sensitive haptic
keyboard that they call the Halo keyboard which serves two functions when
you want to type a standard keyboard layout illuminates and you get this
haptic feedback as you type in place instead of using physical buttons and
when you prefer to take notes draw or even color the keyboard vanishes
completely and you use a stylus in this case one with 248 pressure levels called
the real pen that lets you draw and even
write on paper having it instantly digitized it's a totally unique piece of
technology and once again as I was watching my kids break it in for me I
found myself thinking the world they growing up in is so different from the
one that I did and here are nine reasons
why
number one when I was little my parents had to hang on to physical copies of my
let's generously use the term artwork if
they wanted to preserve them for the benefit of future humil excuse me odd
Generations yeah my dad actually hold held on to this for years apparently and
gave it to me as a gift for my 30 th birthday I love my parents but they're a
little uh weird sometimes and if you've ever had a kid in preschool you'll know
that this creates some significant logistical issues though most folks
figure out a solution because it sure beats admitting that you lost it why did
you lose it modern kids have a multitude
of amazing tools to make life much easier and eliminate excuses nothing can
ever be lost under the fridge again
mostly number two in inviting kids over to play was a totally different matter I
mean this was considered a legitimate form of communication do you want to
come over and play nowadays no one even blinks when your four-year-old is
texting his group chat to organize a play date number three taking pictures
is so much better now do you know what I would have given to be able to see in
such clear detail what exactly it was I was capturing not to mention the instant
gratification and viewfinders being only an approximate representation of the
framing was the tip of the iceberg so darn it we kept our photos Because by
the time we got them we'd invested so much into getting them no matter how
blurry or poorly composed they were oh
God number four coloring books weren't
so trendy I mean sure kids liked them
but parents for the most part seemed to have other things on their minds not so
today number five and I'm actually not sure who had it better for this one when
I screwed up at a little league sporting event I lost the game and I didn't get
to go for pizza after nowadays it seems
like everyone gets a prize regardless of skill or actual results so I guess
that's pretty cool but my generation never had to worry about our mistakes
turning us into minor internet celebrities number six when I was little
we had stupid fads that consumed all of our pocket money I mean come on all you
30-year-olds raise your hand and if you didn't boast in the schoolyard about
your new Slammer at some point or another with that said at least when we
bought useless crap at least we got physical useless crap though number
seven physical isn't always an
advantage this is a big improvement
though I will say that rage quitting loses a little bit of its impact number
eight the Pokémon experience was totally different when I was a kid people would
stare at me walking around catching pocket monsters and go kids today faces
buried in their screens they don't even look where they're going nowadays hey
there's a map built right into the game totally different finally number nine
when I was a kid I think it's fair to say that there was less courage in the
world sure we had the courage to pay $20
an hour in batteries to pull the wall plugs out of our boom boxes and even the
courage to play music wirelessly on the go but we drew the line at headphones no
it would take another 25 years for someone to have that kind of Courage
that is to say 25 plus however much longer it takes so thank you for
watching guys huge shout out to Lenovo for sponsoring this video and providing
us with their yoga book that served as the inspiration for many of the then
versus now seets so you can find out more about the yoga B B at the link in
the video description we'll have a link to the purchase page down there and if
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