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I have this reluctant fascination with new technologies. I’m completely enthralled with the latest bleeding-edge trends; I just don’t want to dive in head-first. And this is mainly because I’m not willing to put the time and effort into learning something that may or may not still be around in two months. When it proves itself, I’m in. Until then, I’m satisfied to read about it from the sidelines. As a consumer, this places me just a foot or two behind the curve sometimes, which is a comfortable place to be. A few months is usually all you need to gauge what’s worthwhile and what isn’t, and once in a while you get surprised.

For example, I thought it was silly to put a camera in a cell-phone, but, sure enough, now I have one. Until recently, I was pretty firmly against Bluetooth headsets. And by “recently”, I mean “yesterday”. What happened to me yesterday was this: I bought one. Now, I know that this particular technology has been around for more than a few months, but I never wanted anything to do with it. It struck me as unnecessary and, let’s be honest, people who walk around the store talking to no-one are fairly easy to ridicule.

But we’re switching over to softphones at work, so some sort of headset will be necessary, and I recently got a new car with a manual transmission. Taking a phone call while driving a stick isn’t all that easy (or all that safe). So when I saw a cheap-o model on sale yesterday for $12, I caved. And if I like it, I’ll upgrade to something a bit more robust.

I just had to promise myself that I would only use it at the office in the car, and not become one of those people that walks around stores talking to no-one.

Labels: technology

# posted by Kurt @ 8:50 AM