Technology Gadget Test
 

As I was reading the Video Camera thread and the fight over "gadget king", and observing that FT'ers like to see who has more miles/nights/stays/rentals, this test popped into my mind.

How many of the PC Magazine 100 Best Products of 2005 do you own/use? Be honest - testing the A9.com search engine once or twice out of curiosity doesn't count

I'll kick it off with 17. And I now have a "to buy" list of cool travel gadgets.

47. I should be ashamed of myself.

Many of the products there are pretty useless, their "best products" is more like a "most paid to us to advertise" list.

I have (or have used) only 6 items from the list. That doesn't surprise me since I'm anti-techno establishment - I go for more off-beat gadgets.

For example; I still use, love, and buy ReplayTV equipment. My house if fully wired, so my only wireless networking is bluetooth for some weather related gadgets and my cell phone.

Wow, I suck... 10....

You suck...I only got to 8 :( .

I guess I'm just on the wrong side of the chasm.

11.

There's a lot more where I've got the "previous generation" of what's listed. For example, I've got what was once a higher-end Nikon Coolpix, a 10GB iPod, an older Casio Exlim digital camera, a Motorola v600 instead of a Razr v3, etc. Count by that, and I'm probably somewhere in the low/mid-20s.

Just 32 of the 100, that is horrible!!!!

5 outta 100 (#'s 2, 3, 8, 34, 86)

Wow, only 9. I consider myself (or my wife does!) an early adopter and have loads of gadgets, but not many from this list.

There are loads on there that I wouldn't consider owning or using, because I have stuff that is better! :p

16, plus a demo of Corel Painter.

I have about 13 other bits of technology about that are equivalent or that I like better or that aren't needed with OS X (e.g. desktop search).

8 here without counting functional equivalents.

19 here

4, and some of those don't really count. Do the iTunes music player and iTunes music store really count seperately? Does one really "have" google? I have used it - though it isn't even my first choice search engine. I will admit to Firefox. I'd realisticly give myself a 2 at best.

Drat - I just got Roxio easy media creator. I guess that makes 5 (or 3 by my count)

23
 

24 here, wow, they got some obscure things on there.

Only 12. And I thought I was a geek. Well, maybe a poor geek.