January 4, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Which tech gadgets have changed your life?
Photo by EricMStrauss
This week marks the start of the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Held each year in Las Vegas, CES is known for previewing many new gadgets, electronics and products that are likely to change the tech marketplace.
This year, Ben Patterson from Yahoo! Tech thinks that 3D on HDTV, Smartphones, and e-books are the hot items (read more here) Others say gadgets like an iPhone credit card reader may end up being one of the items to watch.
Either way, in the past, companies have used CES to introduce the following products into the mainstream marketplace:
- Blu-Ray Disc (2004)
- Xbox, 2001
- DVR, 1999
- DVD, 1996
- Tetris, 1988
- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), 1985
- Compact Disc Player (CD Player, 1981
- Camcorder, 1981
- Video Cassette Recorder (VCR), 1970
What are some gadgets that have changed your life?
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Definitely one that everybody will agree on is Ipods.
other than that it’s debatable, Sat Navs are another good one.
ipod
iPod touch ftw
windows 98
my insulin pump~yay no more needles…
my insulin pump
Changed my life? None have changed my life. How does an IPod change anyones life? It changes the way you listen to music. It doesnt change your life.
iPod Touch
PSP
the lead pencil.
Microwave
When will I ever go without a meal?
It is fast and it makes a mean dish.
smartphones. yes.
ipod touch, wii, n ds most def.
The TV remote. I can flip away from politicians and their stupid commercials,interviews, and ego trips.
The DIGITAL WATCH has changed my life.
%With all the added features available on the wrist nowadays, I recall the days when people said there was NO WAY to be able to hold such a LARGE item as a computer that could tell time and store any information anywhere on the body!
OH MY…. HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS GROWN!
I would day all the T.V., there are so many educatoinal but awesome shows out there and I have learned so much.. But not a life changer I guess, there really is alot of great new medical equipment out there, but there will be harly no more now that Obama has put a tax on hopsitals for buying new technology, yay stoneage!
for sure the APPLE IPOD TOUCH, because of its touch screen and the awesome and very useful apps
I took a computer course in ‘90 and it definitely changed my life. I knew how to use a computer before most children. Now, they’re on the computer from a very early age!
My phone has changed my life! it has helped me find new and reconect with old friends
The cell phone, for the worse, every time i go some where with someone or hang out with them, they are texting away like they wish they were somewhere else
the iPhone and my MacBook
Stainless steel right knee, a titanium left hip, and a pacemaker for my hereditary Tachy-Brady Syndrome.
I like the future television idea that you can watch television at YOUR VERY OWN HOME IN 3D. That sure will be awesome and will kill cinemas, theaters, etc…
It’s like how internet killed libraries, TVs, etc…
People on these days no longer watch television. They don’t use libary anymore.
I like gadgets like… PSP GO, I-POD, LCD..LED..HD..televisions. HDTV would be awesome.
epipen and ipod touch
Technology makes me complete tasks easier at times. However technology has not changed my life; i mean thats pretty lame. An Ipod changed someone’s life? Come on…
Technology has its downsides as well. It makes kids sit in front of the TV and play video games all day while getting fat instead of playing sport. It disconnects people from social face to face interaction (texting, facebook, etc). eg: Its easier to send 20 text messages apparently, rather than picking up the phone and either talking or meeting person face to face for a chat.
Is it any wonder now there’s a generation of inept social idiots who are too lazy and can’t be bothered using their brain power to think things through; as there’s always a piece of technology to do the thinking for them.
Technology definitely has its positives, but there’s a lot of negatives that often get overlooked.
My laptop
all
Digital cameras…
do you remember the old cameras? Having to load the film into the cameras… making sure it doesn’t get exposed when you take it out… then you have to go and get it developed… what a hassle…
With digital cameras you could upload the photos right to your computer… save it… edit it…
Such a wonderful invention…
iPod and Windows Vista. That’s probably the most influential technology that I have.
The Zune OMG i couldnt take it if my zune was gone went from my little 30 GB which was great to my 120 which is AWESOME i carry all my music videos pics n podcasts around w/ some games as well and its just great
As banal as this reads, the Jitterbug phone changed my life. I have a central nervous system disorder and small cell phones are impossible to use. Finding a mobile phone with large buttons was quite a joy and allowed me to join the wireless community.
DVD
A simple but smart and useful invention
The Nintendo Wii and GPS navigator!
To the person whom said “Changed my life? None have changed my life. How does an IPod change anyones life? It changes the way you listen to music. It doesnt change your life”:
iPods (and other MP3 players) have changed our lives in more than the way we listen to music. Now that I’ve been using the iPhone for a while, I could never go back. It has changed my life. Its got the best mobile browser, email, touch screen, etc. It also house tens of thousands of apps that have changed my life in more ways than “just the way I use a phone”.
I would also say that my laptop has changed my life. Its the first entertainment laptop/desktop replacement (I have 2 desktops in my home, just collecting dust :S). I wasn’t around to really remember the first laptops (or wasn’t old enough to use one), but they sure have come along way.
Besides gadgets (or well I guess they go hand-in-hand) are the social networking websites. Any free time I have is largely used tweeting or on facebook.
The Internet.
I can’t believe nobody else has said that.
The internet is clearly the most important invention on the last 3 decades.
Well, the elecrtick Toaster, and later on Yahoo!
I would have to say it would have to be the gps system, no more getting lost, the television, no more getting bored at home or the computer, easier to do homework. I am not a high tech guy that buys every other thing on the market but I do enjoy some of them
Computer: I worked on graveyard shift at IBM, helping with a primitive mainframe computer, to make money to earn my B.A. in English Lit. The computer training changed my career from English teacher to systems programmer. Vast, eh?
Electricity,——-born on a farm without running water or electricity until about 15 yrs old,,not really that old at 59 but North Ga was still backward in rural areas at that time
We got electricity about 1960 and running water(not from a bucket in a well) in about 1964 or 65
ipod touch / iphone
its everything in one
Well I have to say the I phone due to it having my music collection and all of the other stuff like e mail, texting etc.But lets not get carried away with technology a gadget has to be useful and the features need to be used to make it worth while investment.
A lot of hype is going on at the minute on smart phones, but do you really use all the features on offer?. A cost benefit analysis would show most people would not need them, unless your running a business do you really need such a fancy phone?
To just chat and send useless gossip and texts which are of no use to any one. I can see a lot of people signing up for smart phones and then finding out there expensive to run and wanting out of the 3yr contract!
Just my point of view by my gut feel is there expensive toys, do we all want to end up crouched over a phone all day communicating with people in such an in personal manner?, time will tell I guess.
I watched videos at my mom’s house. I thought they were pretty ok. Truly, Susan D. Snavely
I also have to ask the question are we slaves to these gadgets, example does the cell phone help you or are you a slave to it?
How many times have you been chatting with somebody and they break the conversation to answer the bloody phone? Its rude and bad manners !, let the call go to voice mail and then ring back when u have finished your conversation! Technology is damaging relationships too, its easy for ur partner to have an affair now they can chat and text there lover without you knowing. Tiger Woods for example classic he got caught by his phone!. Technology has a lot of negatives too, destroying relationships being one!
My iphone 3gs jailbroken for sure has changed my life! Also social networking such a myspace a facebook.
I think tech which changed my life, in respect of gadget is Samsung Phone!.
an ipod, phone, computer, PS3 and tv thats the most things i know from my lifetime
The advent of TV sets in kit form in 1947 was my first
opportunity to learn elex and make more for a product till I rolled in cash. Color TV ,Navy sonar,radar,crypto, etc kept me employed. Now it is the advent of infrared aiming,night vision tied directly to weapons ,The latest thrill is watching a Predator
disintegrate alqada fools-with the operator in a secure room in NV!!
>.< The psp.
MP3 player, I don’t have to carry tons of tapes and cds to listen to audio books (since I don’t like to listen the radio)
Cell phone, I can get in touch with my family easily and send a quick text to friends I don’t see often!
TAMAGOTCHI!!!!!
I would the say the tech that changed my life would be my first pda, Palm 3x. It has taught me time management, accountability of actions. I would have never thought I would leave it for another platform, but 3 OS’s later, Palm/Visor, Dell Axim and now IPhone, I am still amazed at technology.
iPod Touch and laptop, mainly.
And PS2.
Technology has just further divided us from living naturally with nature. We have become isolated fat slobs on computers. We are missing out on life!
However, I love my iMac.
my PSP – Christmas gift from parents
THE Microwave
BluRay on top?
BluRay is the advertisement?
Looks like their really running low on funds.
You all know what the final killing blow to BluRay discs was?
The dirt cheep discs all over japan now that hold both DVD and BluRay at the same time on the same side.
So, Is RIAA responsible for them not being available in the USA? has it something to do with those 5$ dvd’s all over the streets?
(They Live 1988)
Some one, prove me wrong.
The telephone and the computer, the rest is design or combining the telephone and computer
The fax machine. The pc.
cellphones for sure!!!
My favourite is a Nintendo DSi
My laptop~!
Hard choice between my Alienware laptop and my Moto Droid phone.
*sigh* Keith Rodgers. No, I am not a slave to my phone, my computer, or any other device. I love to use these devices to make my life more convient, but I don’t bow to their every desire (as if they have any). There ALWAYS has to be one, doesn’t there? And let’s not forget Keith, YOU had to use a gadget to post that.
As a teacher, I am surprised constantly at the number of new ‘toys’ that are around and about for schools. The problem is two-fold – money to purchase these much needed contraptions, and helping the ‘traditional’ teachers get pass their fear of the new toys and give them a try in their classrooms. In our school, we have GRADEKEEPER, which is the method to put grades, assignments, projects in the system. It is the new way to allow parents to communicate online with teachers. They can see their child’s grade, assignments, projects, due dates, and see notes that teachers can write immediately. Parents can also respond. Much of the new tech is about helping parents and teachers communicate (email, sharing websites and pages, etc.) The classroom has also changed. Many schools have purchased compact computers (notebooks, laptops, etc) for each student in a class. Students find books online, and other resources that they had to depend upon the library. Some classrooms are almost empty of books which is not good. We have math and science probes and technical resources that have not been experienced in the past. Huge screens are positioned in classrooms that a teacher only has to hook up the students with their own ‘clickers’ and students can respond to test questions and quizzes while watching all of the information take place on this screen. Students have the ability to locate websites and ‘teach’ themselves a concept, work the worksheets, listen to the ‘teacher’ online review, then take online quizzes and play games that reinforce the concept. They are able to communicate with other students throughout the US when working on similar or collaborative projects. It’s awesome.
I’m a bit of a music lover…
’60s = Stereo/FM – We had one of the first stereo hi-fis–two ears = two speakers
’70s = Cassette/Walkman – my music–portable!
’80s = CD – Vinyl was a pain to deal with
’90s = Web – Information is so much easier to get now
’00s = iPod – Having “all” of my music with me is something that I only dreamed of…
Excuse me, I’m going to go read a book now–the paper kind–and you kids should get off my lawn.
Radios for one. I was so fascinated by radios and cassette recorders and loved (and still love) music so much that I went into engineering to figure out how they work. Of course, now I’m into iPods, GPS, netbooks, routers, DVR, microprocessors, digital signal processing, fiber optic data transmission etc. And I have a great career as a result of loving the gadgets that were available when I was a kid.
ipod for sure
The iPhone for sure has changed my life for the better
PC change my life.
Forrrr sure the iPod Touch (: I can do EVERYTHING on there, even text, all you need is wifi!
My top fiftteen tech gadget are
1) the Internet
2) the telephone
3) the automobile
4) the Microprocessor or computer
5) the radio
6) the Lead pencil with a eraser
7) The electronic calculator
9) the light blub
10 ) the Vaccum tube
11) the Fax
12) the printer
13 ) the scanner
14) the modern home
15 ) Video games
the small but mighty cellular phone! without it i cant ask my friend when class ends.
my ebook reader
If we’re talking *really* changed, I’d say:
- a personal organizer with reminders
- a personal laptop – my portable second life
- not exactly technologies but, help-self sites such as Yahoo answers, vidiojug and most definitely Google
- social networking sites
internet as fast as is know and the ability of cell phones to sms. but sure electrodomestics are the most useful stuff, since they really help in your well-being. I personally have some hate for ipods… I have never owned one but I have never felt in the urge of getting one
Bill gates changed us all.
Definitely my iPod, Mobile Phone and iMac have all changed the way I spend my day.
The wheel.. Without it life would be next to impossible I would imagine! I haven’t (of course) ever had it any other way (like w/o the wheel).
PC for me , poker will never be the same . use to get together with a few friends on friday night and play now all I do is get on the internet and play . and also no more magazines or books laying around the house just 1 click and you got it , PC I think made a lot of trees happy . with connection you don’t need magazines, books , mail, newspapers , all we need is toilet paper and 1 day I,m hoping the PC will take care of that too !LOL!
Lately, it would have to be the flash drive. Now I can lose all my records together, in one convenient step! No more sorting through all that paper and all those discs
PS3
iPhone
Cell phone, Mac, tv, gaming systems, etc. Der
NIKON Digital SLR (DSLR)
People say they like the film better. But now digital is better.
My watch has changed my life! I can store phone numbers, count dates, stopwatch and so much more
Xbox Live. I have always been interested in Virtual Reality. You know, running around in made up worlds and bumping into people from all around the Globe. And Modern Warfare 2 has brought this to me!
My cell phone bcuz i can contact anyone in an instant.
the internet bcuz google helps me find answers to everything. and my PSP bcuz it helps me make MONEY$$$$$
IPHONE IPHONE IPHONE!!!
The desktop computer. That’s where the revolution started.
WiFi In the home and out in the coffee shops
My laptop. I no longer have to be separated from my family when I’m on line. I also no longer shop at malls. If I need something: point, click, buy, ship, Got It!
Accepting the fact that the inspiration to create useful unknown things is available to everyone only through God for the satisfaction of an honest unselfish need , Inventing something that is not in the text books that will benifit mankind is
a life changing experience .
Probably Wireless internet, or the ipod
Apple Mac, Ipod, Nintendo, Ford.
cell phone,computer and ipod!!
There are a number of hi-tech gadgets that I could say. You could not stop saying with one. Hi-tech gadgets are interrelated with the life of man.
No-one seems to understand that “screen size” is not given as an area, but the diagonal. 0.7″ sounds like nothing. But the screen on the Dell, and thus the surface area, is around 40% larger than the HTC’s, deoending on the exact aspect.