gadgets.. we love them, we need them, we spend all our money on them.

No idea why I love gadgets so much but I know that I have to restrain myself everytime one comes out and Anna usually has to get me back to reason/reality… otherwise I would have a lot more of them things like iPods, nifty cellphones, pda’s, notebooks and so on all around me :)

There is a bird (forgot it’s name) that gathers shiny things that he puts around his nest to lure the female into the nest.. I wonder if some of his genes made it into modern men but isn’t that a rudimentary instinct to gather shiny things around to make oneself more attractive? See jewelery and such..

Of course, nowadays the gadgets are still used for that reason, moreorless. But it is not that we gather them for the other to feel courted, we do it to feel better ourselves. (or did you ever feel good if someone else used your cellphone/iPod/whatever?)
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