Addiction to Gadgets

I am a total addict to gadgets, I cant put a finger on when it started, but I remember being fascinated by circuits. I used to love LED bulbs,playing with resistors, Capacitors,ICs, and marveled as they all came together to make a radio, a colorful dance of lights, or a  rain sensor...

This is the dull bit of my gadget histoy, so skip to the next paragraph....The 1st peice of technology that I was adicted was of course the TV, but theres nothing cool about that... some thing that blew my mind was a LED bulb, I used to play with it and even took them to school and sold them to my frinds... I think I was about 11 or 12 years old and it was back in 1996. After that period I took up eectronics and a subject in my O-Levels (Middle school) that wasnt  intresting enought to right about. I was playing with components, putting them together to make silly little circuts.. and later went to making Printed circuit boards using Ferricsulfate and a permanent marker. The most innovative thing I made was a Light dependant circut that gave a alarm that each time the beam of light was disturbed.... I thoght itll make a great security device... but a few years after, it was a common thing in the market once motion sensors came in to excistance.

Ok thats all for the boring bit...

The 1st Gadget I got that really changed my life, and still does is a Computer. It wasa AMD 586. Makes me laugh when I say it now. It was a 133Mhz, 16Mb of RAM and I think it had a 2 or 4 gb HDD and a 8 MB video card. It ran windows 95, and it meant the world to me. I remember playin  Doom,Wolfenstien, and I used Encarta encyclopedia and of course paint and word.At this time I didnt have internet.As time went on I upgraded my PC,and I have never stopped. The addiction to the computer had begun.

Its amaizing how far the computer has come, In a mear 10-15 years, we have already forgotten what the specs of those machines of the past and they seem so ancient and slow.

ok that all for now, Next I`m gona venture in to the world of mobile phones :D my favoite topic of all...