'23kpc' Chapter 24: Well, Bust My Buttons!

When everyday objects provoke non-everyday questions

[Image courtesy of photographer Greg Goebel, who titled it (on Flickr) “Ytpda_2b.” The original — as depicted in Goebel’s photo — was a Royal ezVue 7 personal digital assistant, or PDA. As you can see by comparing this photo with the original, I’ve made a few obvious changes to it: removed the stylus alongside; “anonymized” the brand, the model, and the…