You know that game where everyone sits around and talks about what they’d do if they won the lottery?

Bob would go to Fiji, Carol would own houses all over and Fred would head to Montana, create a compound and start a cult. Yeah that game.

I know what I would do. Oh, I’d give some to charity, but a HUGE amount would go to buying electronic gadgets.

Well, I decided to write down the April 2009 list of gadgets I’d like to have right now to play with. Oh, I’ll tell myself some of them would make me more productive, but the truth is they are the 21st century, all-grown up version of the Tonka Trucks and Matchbox Cars I had way back in the 20th century.

Oh, and should you feel a burning urge to buy one of these goodies, just click the picture to jump over to my Amazon whatchamacallit site where I'll get a couple cents on each dollar. I figure if i can convince a few hundred people to buy these things, then I'll be able to buy one myself! Kind of like a Tupperware party. But with stuff I like.

Kindle2

Yeah, I want a Kindle. No, I'm not willing to shell out $350+.

I’ve been drooling over e-Ink for more than a decade. I followed all the stories back in the 90s about how it was being developed. Heck, I followed the stories about how it SHOULD be developed.

Back in my PDA totin’ days I read a slew of books on the Palm Sized Windows PDA then Sony CLie/Palm and then Dell Axim/Pocket PC.

Crazy cool feature: built in cell modem to download books darn near anywhere.

You know what I really want? I want to get Kindles for myself, my wife and my two kids. Yeah, for $1,400 we could READ BOOKS. No way to do that any less expensively… oh, wait. The library. Riiight. Paper. Seriously? Sure, you COULD read that way, but who would want to? Pfft! I just might as well be illiterate until Amazon drops their price.

Sony EBook Reader

OK, next best thing to a Kindle? Sony Reader Digital Book.

Yeah I have an ebook fetish. Bad.

Down side? $300. No cell connection.

Upside? More formats without having to pay for every frickin’ blog you want to read.

Nintendo DSi

Dual screen (one’s a touchscreen) game machine with built in wi-fi and Opera browser. That's pretty frickin' sweet!

The dual cameras are of dubious value to me. Until someone creates face tracking software for interacting with the apps.

Oh, and Nintendo needs to turn their new app store into a real app store like Apple’s App Store. No stupid restrictions on who can develop for it.

Downside? Stupid Nintendo stupid restrictions on stupid developers! Hopefully this will change. Didn’t we say that back in 1998?

Apple iPod Touch

This is the sweetest PDA to come along in a long time!

You know what would make this REALLY cool? If it were a CELL PHONE TOO! Think about that! Wouldn't that be TOO COOL? Maybe someday Apple will get on the stick and make a cell phone like that.

They what? Oh my.

Enough!

That really is enough for now. I’m starting to hyperventilate.

More gadgets and goodies later.