Tech Arena

The Point of Gadget Saturation

Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a business trip to New York earlier this week equipped with all the gadgets you might expect: personal smartphone, work smartphone, laptop, iPod touch. Problem is, her hotel room didn’t have enough outlets to keep the darned devices charged. “I unplugged the lamp and still couldn’t do it,” she noted ruefully. “At least half the things I’m carrying right now are just dead hunks of metal.” So, though communications is her world, Marchenese has no plans to rush out and buy the iPad.