status symbol gadgets

Status Symbol gadgets

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• The Bose Wave Radio.

Which company earned a reputation that has since grown with some strategic product placement in this film?

• TAG Heuer’s association with motorsports.

• It features a clamshell design with top and bottom teflon-coated heating surfaces. The food rests upon the highest points of the teflon on a flat surface. There are large indentations that lead to a slanted surface so that liquid fat will slide down and away from the primary items. These slants at the top lead to the bottom, and the bottom to the fat tray. The floating hinge allows the heating element to remain in close contact with both the top and bottom of foods of various thicknesses. It is available in several different sizes and configurations, including indoor electric models with deeper cooking surfaces to compete against similar infomercial products like the GT Xpress. Since its introduction in 1995, over 100 million of these have been sold. X himself has made over $150 million from its sales, more money than he made during his entire ______ career. This gadget is said to "knock out the fat".

• Blu-Ray Disc regions.

• The Salad Shooter.

• According to NVIDIA, ___ is achieved by using one or two dual-link DVI ports. This higher bandwidth allows the cards to reach a maximum resolution of 2560x1600. The resolutions 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 are also classed as resolutions, even though they do not match the ___ specification of 4x1080i / 2x1080p stated on the ___ site. ___ cables provide far superior video definition and the highest resolution video performance for HDTV and today's high-resolution signals. Cables include composite video, S-Video, component video, VGA, DVI, HDMI, digital audio and others.

• Extreme High definition (XD)

What Gadget, brought out by which company?

• Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader.

• When mass produced Xs appeared in the early 1980s (the golden age being the mid 1980s), the high-tech community's demand created a "feature war" of one-up-manship between manufacturers (i.e. the CFX-400 in 1985) and were considered fashionable or hip to some people. Xs was a fashion accessory. For example, in a poster for The Police’s album Synchronicity, front man Sting can be seen with his arms folded, proudly sporting a black plastic X. However, as the novelty of the X wore off, they became, much like pocket protectors and thick glasses, associated with nerds and were no longer considered to be in vogue. Today, the overall style status of the X is uncertain. Depictions of them in today’s media abound, but with no single type of wearer. For example, Al, the seemingly normal middle-aged pilot in the Tom Hanks film Cast Away is seen wearing one as he’s pouring a cup of coffee right before the crash scene. In many trades and technical fields, X are more common, as seen used in an homage by Dwight Schrute, playing the annoying and nerdy character on NBC's The Office wearing an X.

• In addition to their questionable status as a fashion accessory, the future of the X as a practical and useful electronic device is also uncertain. In an age of ubiquitous PDAs, cell phones, and other powerful and compact computing devices capable of storing many megabytes of information, there likely may not be much of a need them. On the other hand, one could also argue that advances in electronics, RFID, and voice recognition could result in many qualities of the PDAs, cell phones, and other powerful and compact computing devices being incorporated into Xs.

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