iGadget-2000 XTREME!!!!

Hey All =),

Saw this funny post from woot and thought I would send it your way for review. After all, what is an internet if not something utterly filled with people repeating each other?

Frankly the article from woot raises some interesting questions (however the original here is just kinda of a funny liberal push me into doing their bidding site). When I really think about it I have two very different conceptualizations of the world. With cars for instance, I go out and buy models that were from late 80s-early 90s (yes I am falling into old man territory... crap, I am already saying things like "back in the day") and then I use them and fix them and keep them running forever. They are solid, decent quick and each excels in what I want it for (miata for fun country drives and track, jeep for crazy extreme offroading).

Now tech on the other hand.... I have been averaging 9 months per computer I own.... Yes, even I can admit that is a tad bit wasteful (but fun) and I go through tech gadgets at an equal or faster rate (btw, a clear solution here is for everyone to make this blog a huge success so I can pester tech companies for demo models). There are just so many neat things to explore in each model and unit. New tricks and toys and I love to find and discover them all (this process often drives my dear patient Wife batty with me, "Look Honey, look what this all in one robotic vacume-mop-kitty-defirrminating-laundry-chef can do..." with a response of "thats nice Dear, now take the garbage out for me like you said you would").

I think perhaps I really should cut back a little but I just wanted to make a case for the latest and greatest. We live in a society that is utterly efficiency driven. It lets us be lazier while doing more you see. This truly is the American dream. As a result, technology is always being modified, changed and improved so that we can live the dream, drink beer and collect dust. ITs in our nature and I am afraid sites like lastyearsmodel will only find a home with people afraid of change.

Hmmmmm.... There is another point as well. The world has sped up so much and change happens instantly at our fingertips dabbling in the web and other media that I think that expands into every inch of our lives. If we are used to something it must be old, trite and uninteresting. IF anything here should be changed it would probably be this (also another solution is firmware updates... see Iphone 3.0 restoring my childlike sense of wonder on an old edge iphone)

I guess lastly on my incoherent speal would be quality. There are just few products that work well after the first 6 months (Apple products of course being exempt from this). Sure I could keep my cell phone going longer but it will be neither a happy experience for me or for that matter my phone (as I chuck it against something hard and metallic or run over it with a large, gas guzzling vehicle or throw it out of a moving Ranger cart or drop it from a second story window.... yes this has all happened, all by accident accept for the first).

So yes. I don't have to end with a conclusion other than to have a couple of screenshots from the lastyears model sites i wished to comment on.

Answer: Me

Answer: You obviously were not waiting in line with my friend and his girlfriend (who had asked him to buy her one... ok, it was a wii but still)...