Are There Any Gadgets That Would Be Good Gifts For A Teenager?

I'm turning 16 soon and my parents want to let me pick something relatively small in addition to the (currently unknown) gift they've chosen. The funny thing is that I have almost no clue as to what I want. There are plenty of things out there, but nothing pops out as being amazingly useful or otherwise cool. Ideally, I'd like to get something that won't break the bank (costs under $300), but is useful. It should be pretty unique too--no keychain photo albums. Because this is a bit of an odd qu

Is That E-Book You Bought Really Yours?

When I was a teenager, I’d walk over to a friend’s house with a pile of vinyl LPs under my arm. We’d head into a dark basement, usually lit with a single black light, and listen to the latest from our musical heroes. Teenagers, or anyone else today, rarely carry LPs or CDs. Their music is loaded onto MP3 players which can be attached to an audio system. Just as we rarely carry musical media such as LPs and CDs with us, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll continue carrying paper-based books, magazi

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Teenager Falls Into Open Manhole While Texting - apesaje.comze.com 07/12/2009 Sorry, but I have to laugh at her while reading this. “Alexa Longueira fell about 4 or 5 feet into an open manhole in Staten Island, scraping up her back and shoulders in the process, although she is otherwise physically unharmed. Her mother noted that she was also mentally injured, as the sewer was “putrid” and one of her shoes remains down there.” via Teenager Falls Into Open Manhole While Texting - Fal

On 20 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 20 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu

On 30 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 30 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu

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