Babel Machine

Apple Tablet, a long awaited new gadget, Microsoft Courier, Gates’s answer to apple’s tablet and the old flop revitalized, 3D TV, here are  some of the most anticipated gadgets of 2010.

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1. Apple Tablet

Not much is known about Apple’s new magazine sized gadget since Steve Jobs and company are secretive. What little we do know about the iSlate is that it is an offspring from iphone and a Macintosh computer. An inheritance from iphone, touch screens are coveted by those who prefer larger screened computer gadgets. What makes this such an item? It is an e-reader, a game player, and a music repository.

2. Ford’s MyKey

Parents will love this one. The new cars out for 2010 will have a chip in the ignition prohibiting speeding. Over 80 miles an hour won’t be permitted. New standard features: Alerts will sound if seatbelts aren’t worn; gas lowering at 75 miles until empty instead at 50 and a persistent chime that won’t shut up until you buckle up. These warnings are not only for youngsters — even though Ford markets it for their safety — parents and others often are victims of their own neglect. Yet, wisely, Ford understands Parents control the pocket book.

3. Microsoft Courier

Not to be outdone by Apple’s rumors of their new tablet, Microsoft is also in the competition with their Courier. He calls this a booklet, not a tablet. Courier has dual multi touch, hinged screens and is an electronic note taking device, doodler, diary, reader, and yes, it has a camera. It works with either fingers or a stylus.

Samsung P9000 World's First 4G Phone

4. 4G Phones

The phone improvements seem never to stop. This years improvements will be in faster speed in data transmission. Faster even than the 3G phones. Data to be received at 100Mbps while moving along highways will replace static and, hopefully cutoffs. Enthusiastic viewers are no doubt waiting in line to grab them off shelves. (And speaking of phone technology, something for the older folks, phones are available that don’t play music or take pictures. They are just phones.)

5. 3D TV

Will 3D make it this time around? 3D television is nothing new. They tried it in the early fifties and it lasted only a few months. Yet, 2010 expect a newer more enticing version. What’s so different about the newer more improved versions over the older versions? Glasses won’t be needed. Apparently that’s the drawback. So will be the price of the first ones which are expected to be around $25,000.