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It’s sad that the digital watch is so unpopular these days. A whole generation of slightly retarded males still relies on them because they can’t quite manage a conventional clock.

Digital watches also had all sorts of other benefits. Calculator watches are often remembered, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Stopwatches, alarms and even games were on offer. You can’t beat a cheap LCD game with three frames of animation and a grand total of two buttons with which to control the protagonist.

You can’t buy wrist-based absorbing gameplay like that any more. It’s sad that the world has degenerated to this extent.

You might not think that the spork is a gadget, but God damn you to Hades, it is. The spork is a gadget of such crystallised simplicity people overlook the fundamental brilliance of it. It is both a spoon and a fork; it is better than either.

There are few foods that can’t be tackled with a spork. By contrast, forks and spoons have ludicrously narrow usage. Soup with a fork? A thankless task. Meat with a spoon? Not normally, although ’spoon-meat’ is something that is currently in development for bachelors.

Some people get confused about sporks and think that a tool with a spoon on one end and a fork on the other end is a spork.

It isn’t.

All the best gadgets aren’t thought of as being gadgets any more because they’ve become so commonplace. One that’s particularly uninspiring is the remote control, but this is a wondrous device.

I remember when my mate Dan first got a TV with a remote control. It had a cable. It was rubbish. There were only four channels to choose from as well and you pretty much knew what was on the other three, so you rarely flicked around looking for something to watch.

These days remote controls look like spaceships, which is just as well, because spaceships aren’t as common as they should be in the year 2010.

The long awaited Asus Eee keyboard will finally be hitting the shelves in May. The new Asus keyboard has some impressive features that allow HD connectivity to any television. The keyboard also has a 5 inch touch screen build in so you can type even while you are away, and even has multy screen technology that will allow you to stream video and write an email to two different screens at the same time. The Eee is a little on the expensive side at around € 599 for the 32GB version, however i believe it’s another great step forward towards the fully self contained home media center.

The boffins at Bloom energy have come up with a way of creating electricity in a similar way to a power plant. The box is basically run from a fuel cell that has a solid oxide core, but also needs oxygen and petroleum to create the chemical reaction that produces the electricity. The box is only available in America and costs around $800,000 dollars however Bloom want to reduce the overall cost for residential market to around $3,000 dollars.

The mobile world congress exhibition saw a plethora of new mobile devices; however the one that stood out from the crowd was HTC’s new handsets the “Legend” and “Desire” feature some impressive features such as Bluetooth 2.1, FTP and OPP as well as a 3.2 inch AMOLED display. The device also boasts a laptop style tracker pad, which seems to be the way forward in mobile devices. But that’s not all the phone also has a 600MHz processor and 512mb of Rom which is expandable up to 23 GB via an SD slot. Certainly with these features, it will give the IPhone a run for its money.

If you own a smart phone (not necessarily an IPhone), where would you normally get your apps from? Of course most new gen phones have a type of app store they can download favourite games and utility applications from, but what if there was one to rule them all, an app store that caters for all types of smart phone, it would be pretty immense. Well twenty four telecoms operators are planning just that, which would revolutionise the app store market and will definitely give Apple a cause of concern as it would more than likely outperform the Apple app store by miles, what do you think?

There has been allot of news lately over Apples news IPad, mainly over the fact of its just an over sized IPod touch, and which from what i can see i agree. If you own an IPod touch or IPhone there is no reason why you would even contemplate spending over £200 on a giant version. I personally have an IPhone and can read just fine things like web articles and eBooks just fine, so i have no use for this device, however if you cannot afford an IPod touch at nearly double the price and are looking for an eBook reader with a large screen then the IPad will defiantly suit your needs. The only down side i can see with this device is portability, with a 7” screen size it’s not the most compact ereader on the block. Since i don’t own one of these devices and this is just my personal opinion based on the way it looks and the explained functionality, however if you own one of these devices, please let me know your comments.

Many people have the thought that when technology advances even further there will be no need to go out to work or go out to schools, colleges and universities to study as technology will be so good that a person can do all of these from the comfort of their own home?

Being technologically away myself, I can tell you that this won’t happen on the mainstream and if some people did do this and adopt such methods for their lives,  sooner or later they will realise it’s downfalls and move elsewhere.

What’s your opinion on this?

Do you agree?

Many people in the world are looking forward to the Apple Event 2010. Why such the fuss and hesitation by not just consumers but the largest and biggest businesses in the world? Well, Apple are rumoured to announce some of their biggest products yet. Two of the main products to be announce (which are rumoured) are

• The Apple iPhone running the new Apple OS 4.0
• The new Apple tablet which has been rumoured for years on end.

It’s going to be a very big event for Apple. Another point to note is that when Apple generally announce something, the new products are released within a short time as compared to other companies.