Technology

Wired.com's blog Geekdad offers a wonderful reflection on the technological explosion we're all enjoying. Lonnie Morgan described a 12-hour road trip in which the Morgan family packed their most essential gadgets. Here's the list.

1. Mario Kart driving wheels
2. Wii controllers
3. Wii
4. DS (dual as there are sharing issues)
5. Car lighter power converter
6. Cell phones
7. iPod Nano (there is another one here too, but I could not find it for the pic)
8. iPod Touch, 16GB, loaded with 3 movies (recently replaced with a 3G S, Woot!)
9. JBL iPod speaker port
10. Dell 9-inch Mini
11. Sims 3 DVD (so the kids can “make” Mama in the game)
12. iPod USB power converter (for charging)
13. 10,000 hour LED reading light
14. Amazon Kindle
15. iPod-to-RCA video cord (hooks up to minivan DVD player, for playing movies from the iPod Touch)

For me the best part of the article was the final comment.

Note: I remember riding from Columbus, Ohio to Miami with three brothers and a sister in an Oldsmobile Cutlass back in 1984. All we had was a bucket of crayons and a few coloring books. My kids just don’t know how good they have it. God bless my mother and father!

What're your essential gadgets? Do you have as many as the family of Lonnie Morgan?