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If you are one of those new urban professionals who have yet to feel very comfortable with technology – technophobia as it is called – take comfort in the fact that you are not alone in your fear of all things techie like electronics for the urban professionals. A published study reveals that majority of new company employees might be technophobes in varying degrees.

Disadvantages of Technophobia

However, you have to let go of your fears at some point, preferably sooner than you want, because technophobia exacts a toll on your personal and professional life:

- Your quality of life will be affected. Imagine having to avoid technology when you have to live and work with electronics for the urban professionals! Unless, of course you work in an Amish community, there is simply no easy way of escaping technology nowadays.

- You will have panic and anxiety attacks that adversely affect your personal and professional relationships. Remember the fictional Wesley Gibson of the movie “Wanted”? If you are in his shoes, you would be apologizing too much, too!

- The symptoms of panic attacks – rapid and short breaths, irregular heartbeat, nausea and sweating – are no walk in the park. Would you really want to be all sweaty and shaking when you need to present a composed appearance in front of potential customers? Definitely not!

As much as you can, you have to find ways to get over your technophobia to climb the ladder of success in the corporate world. Where else would Bill Gates be if he had your technophobia?

To Die-For Gadgets

With these electronics for the urban professionals, you will discover that there is nothing to fear but fear itself (with many thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt). You will love these gadgets for the way they make your life easier and lovelier, advantages that you overlooked because of your fear of technology.

You simply must have these electronics for the urban professionals in your professional and personal arsenal:

- Apple iPods and only Apple iPods. These are the most popular and most saleable portable media players and for good reason, too! These gadgets are easy to use with its user-friendly interface (sometimes called the Nokia of portable media players for said feature), wide array of compatible accessories, compact size, attractive color displays and designs, and reasonable prices.

You can choose from among many varieties to serve your equally many needs and budgets- the iPod classic, the iPod Touch, the iPod Nano, the iPod Shuffle, and the iPhone. (Thank the high heavens boom boxes are a thing of your past)

- Digital cameras for the shutterbugs. Nowadays, carrying around a digital camera is not a sign of being another greenhorn tourist. You can use these electronics for the urban professionals when going to the project site to document construction progress, to the client presentation for press releases, and to your casual dates for posterity.

With digital cameras in tow, you can even be a corporate spy! Remember how spies in movies used their digital cameras to photograph documents? Well, you can do that, too, except that you will probably be very nervous about doing espionage that you would probably capture the image of the coffee cup stains! Then again, practice makes perfect, doesn’t it?

- For the ultimate electronics for the urban professionals, laptops cannot be beat for its function, form and fashion. You can carry your files around with you without lugging a heavy briefcase stuffed with paper; you can pack your laptop in a slim case hereby bidding adieu to the bulky bags of yesterday; and you will be ultra-fashionable with the latest laptop in front of you.

When you have all three of these electronics for the urban professionals, you can consider yourself fully covered in all techie bases. You now have various means of communication, entertainment and information packed in three sleek and stylish packages that fit right into the slimmest of bags. It makes you wish that you never had technophobia!

As a last word, when shopping for electronics for the urban professionals, always choose what you believe is best for your needs. Do not go for a gadget just because your friends have it, your neighbors flaunt it, and your co-workers praised it to high heavens. You have to decide for yourself because that is what being an urban professional is – individualistic and fearless!

By: Roddy Jones

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I have seen the future of video gaming and it is 3D. This revelation came to me in an around about way since I am not an avid gamer, but I have been battling a four month addiction to **** Zombies. An addiction that is somewhat puzzling since I have played quite a few computer games before, going all the way back to Atari and Pac-Man. I have also played such games as Legend of Zelda, Crysis and Call of Duty, the popular game developed by Treyarch. Mostly role-playing games where you have to gun or sword your way to victory, but none of these games have so obsessed my time like NZ has done. Hitler’s revenge I guess.

So when the latest COD Black Ops was offered up, truth be told, I bought it more for the Zombie side dish, rather than the main course. However, when I popped the disc into my PlayStation 3, the game came up in 3D on my new Samsung 46 Inch 240hz HD 3D TV. I was so surprised because nowhere on the game package was anything mentioned about it being in 3D. I have since re-checked the package and there’s no mention of the game being in 3D – invisible marketing perhaps?

Once I started playing Call of Duty in crisp full HD 3D, that’s when my revelation came to me. This is definitely the future of computer gaming, if it isn’t already. Some of the sequences were so awe inspiring, the only word that comes to mind is “WOW”. Even that doesn’t give the 3D experience justice, doubt if any words could accurately explain what I was seeing and feeling. Jumping, rappelling, ricocheting, shooting… your way through some of those scenes was simply mind blowing and well… a revelation.

Without a doubt, 3D is the future of video gaming.

Actually, it was one of the sequences of running/fighting on the Kowloon Rooftop, which gave me an actual tactile experience so real, you forget that you’re actually playing a computer game and not experiencing this in person. Maybe I am getting a little too carried away, or had too many of those holidays spirits while I was playing the game, but still I have never experienced a game like Black Ops before, never.

Nor have I experienced 3D like this before, not in the silly 3D horror movies of the 70′s, not in the Terminator 2 show in Orlando, not in the 3D Piranha movie I saw last summer. Not by a long shot.

Now the 3D was not perfect on my system, unless you’re looking directly at the TV, there was some small ghosting of the images which definitely tells you you’re watching a 3D image. It also made me realize that while 3D has been around for ages and has improved greatly, especially in recent years. However, the technology, both in filming and reproducing of the images, still has a way to go before it becomes perfect. It is like watching the first color movies of the early 40′s and 50′s and comparing them to the color movies of today.

While watching the recent FIFA 2010 World cup Blu-ray, I could see where some of the 3D sequences such as the street scenes of the children playing soccer and the staged commentators… these came across as more controlled and better presented than the actual football games, although even those where well worth watching in 3D. In other words, 3D and 3D technology still has a long way to go before all the bugs are ironed out. If they can get rid of those awkward glasses, the system would really be perfected. However, I still believe 3D technology has a little ways to go before it will win the popularity and acceptance that HD or High Resolution has accomplished.

Still, in video gaming, 3D images adds so much to the gaming experience – there’s no stopping it. The awkward glasses will slow down the upcoming revolution but it will not stop it. As more and more games and 3D content becomes available, full HD 3D will become the next viewing standard for TVs and gaming consoles.

Now, you will have to excuse me, I have just turned the power on and there are bloody monkeys crawling down the walls in full glorious 3D!

By: Titus Hoskins

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