| Product: e-Holster |
Company: e-Holster |
| Web: www.e-holster.com |
Phone: 888-425-1034 |
| Platform: Your tosro |
SRP: US$60 (nylon)
$100 (leather)
Street Price: same |
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This is the city, nine AM. An anemic sun squeezes through the smog outside my office, casting a pale glow like the glint off of a bottle of cheap scotch. I'm feeling a little jittery after a Penguin Mints binge on the 505 as I dragged my sorry hump into the office. I hear a knock on my door.
"Who is it?" I grumble, steamed that I won't be able to finish compiling my daily spammer hit list.
No answer. The door squeaks open and a guy with a mug that only his dog could love waddles in. He's a tall guy, features gone south, a bit of a Pillsbury Dougboy-meets-Sam Spade look to him.
I give him The Glare. "Whadda ya want? I ain't got time for salesmen, dames with hard luck stories or hot dot-com IPO tips."
He smiles a goofy, geeky smile and reaches into his jacket in a fashion that I don't take very kindly to. I start to the reach for the M1991A Colt Commander I keep taped to the server under my desk for emergencies just like this one. He catches my drift.
"Easy there, pal, easy," he pleads, raising his hands. I just wanna show you something I picked up off the Net the other day."
My heart skips a beat as he rips open a pouch dangling from one of two black leather straps under his armpits. It looks like a standard-issue G-man gun holster, but what he pulls out is a .... freakin' Palm Pilot!?
My eyebrow raises with Spock-like curiosity. He reaches across under his other pit, pulls open a flap and yanks out a cellphone.
"E-Holster," he deadpans. "Latest thing in uber-geek lifestyle accessories. Sixty clams nylon, hundred clams for the uptown leather rig. Company sells pouches that fit everything from CD players to cellphones." He takes the holster off and tosses it onto my desk. "Keep it," he says. "You look like you need it." He turns before I can thank him and is history.
I sling the rig on and holster my Handspring Visor and StarTac like a gunslinger puttin' two spent six shooters back to bed. I toss my well-worn suit jacket on and prepare to face another day in a city that doesn't care. But somehow, I breathe a little easier now - feeling better equipped to catch, dodge, or fire back at whatever data packets gets tossed my way. I've got me an e-Holster.
- Sean Carton [3/20/00]
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