As you may have noticed if you’ve leafed through a SkyMall catalog or walked into a Brookstone store lately, there are a lot of stupid gadgets out there. If someone can make a buck off it, it will be built. (And as the recent bankruptcy of Sharper Image proves, sometimes even that isn’t a prerequisite.) But before you write off the premise of better life through gadgets entirely based on your experiences with an ionic air purifier and a battery-powered margarita blender, take a look at the more practical side of gadgetry. We’ve rounded up a few of the most downright useful technologies out there. If you haven’t already gotten on board with some of them, we’ll try our best to make you reconsider.
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Apple iPod Shuffle Review
Quote from the review:
“The Apple iPod family has just expanded with the introduction of their first flash based player, the Apple iPod Shuffle. Available in two flavors, 512MB and 1GB, Apple has taken the popular design queues from their hard drive based players and applied them to the new Shuffle. Introduced at this year’s Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs, the company hopes to make a dent in the flash player market, but they may be too late to the show.
Walmart To Carry Apple Mac mini
Gizmodo and Cnet are both reporting that Apple has started shipping small quantities of their new Mac mini to a select number of Walmart stores. Our guess is that if the sales go well, there could be a larger number of stores carrying the new mini computer. Rumor also has it that Walmart and Apple are in negotiations for the retail chain to carry the new Apple iPod Shuffle.
Read more at Cnet
Found VIA Gizmodo
Dell Calls iPod A ‘fad’, Dismisses Mac mini
”It’s interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it’s only this past year it’s become a raging success. Well those things that become fads rage and then they drop off. When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman–a rage, everyone had to have one,” he said.
Several CEO’s have gone on record saying that Apple is only producing a couple fad products and will not make it into the same superpower arena as companies such as Dell, Creative and Sony. Creative’s CEO bashed the new Apple iPod Shuffle last week by saying that there are cheaper, better flash based MP3 players with more features, and Apple is too late.
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