I love cool gizmos and it's fun to play with them but not fun to try and keep up with the technology. And it's so easy to get caught up in the materialism of it all. I recently got my hands on two pretty cool gadgets that I enjoy.

I with out a doubt love my iPod and highly reccomend to anyone, if you can afford one, get one. The iPod Mini is cool but for $50 more you can hold a lot more songs. The Mini is only a 5GB hard drive while the next model up is a 15GB drive, not bad for an extra $50. I try to take my iPod everywhere I go and I love the thing. Anytime I buy a new CD I slap it on the iPod. If someone has a CD or a song I like I can quickly copy it over. There are only two things I have a problem with. The first is the batterly life isn't that great. It only lasts about eight hours before it drains. The seconds is that you need to have iTunes installed in order to be able to use the iPod as an external hard drive. It's not really that big of an issue, just a minor annoyance when someone doesn't have iTunes and you want to copy or back up something. But aside from being able to carry all my music everywhere I go I was able to something pretty cool with it while I was in Hawaii. A friend of mine was looking to buy a new computer so I helped them pick one out that would fit their needs. I was able to copy the entire contents of their old hard drive to my iPod and then drop it back down onto their new PC. You can't do that with an MP3 player. :)

The other nifty toy I recently got was my 10.5" portable DVD player. The picture quality is killer. The thing lists for $800 but I was able to find it for $250, I couldn't pass up a deal like that. I mainly got it for the flight to Hawaii. It worked out really well. I was able to watch two movies on the plane there and two on the plane back. Not to mention I was able to watch one during my lay over in Chicago. Much better then sitting around the airport with nothing to do. I also brought it with me this past weekend to the Poconos. We were able to watch a movie on the drive up and on the drive back, and I was able to connect it to the TV there so we could watch a movie one night. It's a neat toy to have.

And this really should be on the GEEK forum. :P