This modern life.Apple stock rose after the company unveiled its new iPhone. Hand-held and home entertainment technology is advancing every year, with new products offering more services in different formats. So the Business Journal asks: What's your next gadget? Grace Anthony Production Supervisor Sonic Pool I'm on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of getting a Palm Treo. I'm finding that I need to use text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. more and more. I need that access to the Internet when I'm away to check and forward e-mail. People will be able to reach me all the time. Maybe some people don't want that, but I need it. Mandy Ford Senior Career Manager Amy Zimmerman & Associates What I really need is a Bluetooth wireless headset See headset. . I'm also going to go shopping for a digital camera soon. Those are the two things I need right now. Mark Evanoff President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. Ramsey-Shilling Commercial Real Estate Services I just got my new iPod. That's the only thing I really had left to get. My kids got me the video iPod A common name for the first iPod that supported video, introduced in late 2005. Also called the 5th Generation iPod (5G iPod). Apple refers to Video iPods as simply "iPod." See iPod. for Christmas, and it's exactly what I wanted. J.D. Harriman Partner DLA Piper DLA Piper (known until 4 September 2006 as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary) is the third largest law firm in the world by number of attorneys after Clifford Chance and Baker & McKenzie. Because I'm a patent attorney I know things that are coming before other people do. One of the next things that's coming is Doctor in a Box. It will guide you through some self-diagnosis. You put in your symptoms and it helps direct you to what might be wrong with you. I would like to get one when it comes out. I also want GPS navigation. I like the ones that have built-in language translations. One is Gannin Nuvi. It's a hand held, probably around $500. It works all over the world and it has maps from all over the world. I'd use it locally and when I travel internationally I would use the language translation. Suzanne Swanson Executive Vice President Gamma Enterprise Technologies I saw it on the news--it's from Sony and it allows you to stream television, use it as a cell phone and as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . So you could do TV, videophone (1) (VideoPhone) A line of videophones (definition #1 below) from AT&T that were introduced in the early 1990s and later pulled off the market due to poor sales. The first models came with a price tag above $1,000, and a pair were needed. See Picturephone. and PDA all in one toy. My next gadget will be something that combines those three functions. I travel extensively so the ability to link all of that in one device and keep up with the news--plus I'm a "Grey's Anatomy" addict--would be great. That way I don't have to carry an iPod and a cell phone and a DVD player if I want to watch a movie. Mickey Segal Managing Partner Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol Based on all of the things that I see and hear, I would purchase an Apple iPhone. The intriguing piece is the iPod phone with a bigger screen. I bought a plasma HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates about six months ago. I have a few plasma televisions in the same room at home. There is nothing like watching three football or basketball games at the same time Illie Seagren Commercial Property Manager LaCaze Development Co. I have recently taken on a new property down in Oceanside and realize the need for a PDA so I can stop bugging my office for phone numbers when I'm on the road. I was considering upgrading to a Treo until I saw the news yesterday. I am now going to wait for the new iPhone and have submitted my name to Cingular's waiting list as well as Apple's. I'm also looking at the portable satellite television also unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show for my husband--before next football season. |
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