Technology re-identified is the attempt to coalesce
tools into one mini gadget. We can say that technology is an evolution
in a hurry. I wouldn\'t agree that laziness fathered invention. Humans
are just a convenience-hungry creature.

It\'s really tricky to
tell which among the latest gadgets is the newest, as new gadgets swarm
the markets in an almost daily basis. We can say that the entertainment
value of each concept-created gadget dominates pragmatic reasons. Or,
that the primary rationale of most gadgets that is communication has
been redefined to make communication more fun.

It is amazing to
trace how man has improved his means of communication. He started
scribbling in cave walls, has learned to use figures and icons to
convey a message and he has later learned to send those messages using
trained pigeons. And because man is ever hungry to leave a more
expedient life, he never ceased to advance. And man has worked
arduously to develop his communication equipment. But besides man\'s
ingenuity and being convenience-hungry is man\'s love for fun. And man\'s
love for pleasure dates back from the prehistoric era when people go to
coliseums to watch feisty gladiators, to these days when south and
North Pole can easily converge. Maybe because enjoyment is tantamount
to convenience.

And we are man!

We seek entertainment
ubiquitously. We enjoy a cab ride and a coffee break when a good song
is played on the background, we enjoy a bus ride if it has a television
that makes us oblivious of the congested traffic, and on our rest days
we would never miss movie marathons or the never ending political
ruckus featured in news and current affairs programs. And of course, we
would never fail to send text messages to friends, chat with them or
talk with them on webcam. It\'s always fun to exchange greetings with
friends after a week-long killer work, don\'t you agree?

It is staggering that technology has become both a necessity and a source of entertainment.

We
are now living the touch screen age, a fast-paced lifestyle. We have
become busier people and time has become priceless times three. The
things in our must-do list can no longer be accommodated by the 24
hours in one day, and stress has become the most common malady. But as
always, technology has provided an answer.

Technology has boosted
the doodads that most of us are already accustomed to. Let\'s take the
cell phone as an example. The cell phone that was once a plain SMS and
call gizmo has improved to become a multi-media capable device. Such
enhancements are much appreciated by company executives and other white
collar personnel, but let\'s not care about what they do with Bluetooth,
infrared, video files and WI-FI. Not many of us understand the stock
market and banking and finance. But we all know how to pose in front of
camera. And we are all addicted to uploading our pictures in
friend-finding sites. And we can\'t stop downloading the latest music
video of our favorite boy band or the song of that sexy sultry singer
whose face you first saw in the JPEG file that an acquaintance has sent
you in MMS.

It will be time-consuming if we need to be seated in
one place to do our technical stuffs. Thus, it is only proper to
commend technology for coming up with mobile services, special mention
to mobile entertainment. Now, we may not be seated in front of a webcam
because 3G allows us to make video calls, we can already chat on our
cell phones and even surf the internet. We don\'t have to be at home, in
front of our TVs to watch a much-talked boxing match [because the same
thing can also be done on our cell phones]. We can forget about our
bulky Walkmans or Discmans and just stuck in our ears our mp4\'s
earpiece. Wouldn\'t you want you be encouraged to lose weight if your
jogging shoes have a built-in mp4? And hey, the last time I checked on
a tech\'s must-buy list is an mp4 with a camera. If there is anything
more chic than it, I wouldn\'t wonder.

We are all technology
aficionados, or if not just practical people relying on technology to
make our jobs easier. But I remember a line in a Rudyard Kipling poem:
Machines are no more than children of our brains... But wow! What
amazing children our brains have!