{"id":1275,"date":"2017-03-24T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:38:08","slug":"its-the-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2017\/03\/24\/its-the-small-things\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the small things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lost my headphones. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll turn up somewhere, but it&#8217;s been really strange not having them. I&#8217;m not used to being so present in a space. It&#8217;s strange how we get so used to a technology that when we&#8217;re forced to exist without it, it throws us off balance. Even 10 years ago, the idea of constantly having a pair of headphones with me would have been a strange concept. Yes, I had one of the early iPods, but I wasn&#8217;t glued to it the way I am to my iPhone. Without my headphones, I keep finding myself distracted by the things around me that I would normally be able to ignore. I also find myself watching less off topic YouTube videos than before&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It got to the point that I put my hood up as an attempt to separate myself from the rest of my studio space. It didn&#8217;t work, but I came up with a great new idea for wearable tech: hoodies with built in headphones\/speakers. Imagine connecting to your clothes via bluetooth&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just a random thought to put out there&#8230;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the smallest pieces of technology have transformed the way we live our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","entry-card--landscape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SmallThings-01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-kz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}