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A train of gadget freaks

Published on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Yesterday, on the train home to my lovely suburb of choice, Vallentuna, I decided to look up at the other passengers around me. Within a radius of 1.5 meter, there were three tech freaks sitting with their gadgets.

Just across to where I was sitting, a guy was sitting gaming away on his Sony PSP; directly on the other side of the aisle a girl was sitting writing in a focused way on her Apple iBook; and in the middle, your dear blogger was sitting with his Apple iPod Video, watching a movie (I’ll write more about my gadget another day). Interesting to see how technology can help people to kill commuting time…

When we reached Vallentuna and I got up to get off the train, I saw a woman carefully (some would say manically) folding the paper to her Fisherman’s Friend. I couldn’t help wondering if she envied us for our gadgets or if she indeed was happier doing her origami attempt than needing something with a screen to make her feel content.

Posted in Technology | 6 comments

6 comments

Jules
February 21st, 2006 at 17:41

My work place building is on the site of Laurentian University and so, on the bus into work, I travel with quite a few students. Many of us (I included) have our iPods/MP3 players blaring in our ears. Other than that (and the fellow who plays games on his cell phone), there isn’t much more tech going on during the rides.
Robert Nyman - author
February 21st, 2006 at 19:53

Jules,

Ah, come to Sweden and I’ll show you the real goods!
Seriously, though, it isn’t that often the commuting environment is as riddled with gadgets as it was yesterday.
Jules
February 21st, 2006 at 21:40

I ride the city bus which is not as condusive to working on your notebook as a train ride.

Yes, sometime, I will take you up on your offer to visit (Tommy too!).
Robert Nyman - author
February 21st, 2006 at 21:46

Jules,

Any time!
Glen C.
March 4th, 2006 at 1:45

Heh, tell me about it! I took the train today and there was someone with a laptop with a phone/pda, a guy with a sony psp and ipod video, and a lot of other people with laptops and phones. Of course, I had an ipod video too
Robert Nyman - author
March 4th, 2006 at 20:26

Glen C,

Yes, isn’t it funny?

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