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Object of my affections

While I hope you had a great Christmas, inevitably you didn’t receive everything you were wishing for this festive season. I for one was hoping for a brand spanking new monitor. I loved my presents off Santa don’t get me wrong, but a new monitor would have been just perfect.

But I’m not too disappointed as it’s at this time of the year that you can find some great bargains on PC accessories, not least the object of my affections – yes a Samsung monitor!

December's Top Bloggers

Now that the festive season is upon us it’s been great to read what everyone would like or recommend for Christmas.  This month’s top technology blogs are a mixture of bloggers who have covered Christmas in their own, interesting way, and a gem of a development blog that we like so much we had to mention too!

Covering Christmas these Tech blogs have been worth a read in December and will be great to follow for surfacing technology posts in the New Year as well.

Call of Duty - have you played it?

There have always been games which have had the entire gaming world waiting with baited breath for the next instalment to be released.

get the family together, digitally

Christmas is a fantastic time of year, bringing family and friends together and (secretly more important) enjoying truckloads of great food and drink. As much fun as playing that 1975 edition of Monopoly can be, today’s technology offers a whole bunch of ways to bring the family together in different ways, many won’t even cost that much if you already own game consoles and home computers.

GeekDad

Writing about technology means I have to be an early adopter. Whatever is new or emerging, I need to be one step ahead of the game. While I’m not about to complain about all this, it does mean that I often move on before technology has had a chance to properly mature. Although hardware is usually complete out of the box, the software that makes the most of it can take some time to arrive.

I was reminded of this again as I revisited the iPad 2. I’ve been a long term fan of the iPad (particularly for families) but it wasn’t until this week that I realised just how good the device is when it comes to children’s bed time.

Can you predict the gadgets of the future?

What we might be buying each other in the future

It’s rapidly approaching that time of year again. Halloween has been shunted to one side, in the lead up to the next major event in the holiday calendar. I am, of course, referring to Christmas. And with only a brief 45 days to go before the big occasion (according to santaclaus.com) now is as good a time as ever to begin purchasing gifts for your tech-literate loved ones.

Right now in December 2011, Sat Navs, Netbooks and tablet PCs would make for suitable Christmas gifts. But what does the future hold? Let’s fast forward a few years, and consider what just might be possible by the year 2020.

Is it a plane? No it's a helicopter

People’s love of airborne gadgets and gizmos is universal and here to stay. What is it about mastering the control of the flying machine that is so appealing to human nature? We think it mainly comes down to these elements: power, control and most importantly fun!