Kids have too many gadgets

Define "too many".

11 is definitely too many... As Nick said, when I was a kid in the '80 the only gadget I had for my own was a Commodore 64 with tapes, and that was better than most people then. And it was more than enough :)

11 is way too many. These days a phone can do way more alone than 10 gadgets.
Add a PC and you pretty much got yourself covered on most fronts.

The parents should give the yoofs an e-paper e-book reader. I got one myself and it's the best gadget I ever bought. The fun lasts much longer than it does with yer new graphics card!

sorry, but why is this bad?

The article begins, "US yoof of today have far too many gadgets."

What is "yoof"? What a glaring error!

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I bet we too would've had the same crap when we were younger if it was available. Not the youths fault that every piece of technology we have was the size of a modern computer. lol! Couldn't really carry around that in your pocket.

What counts as a gadget? I think that number is easily inflated by subtle things like a household of multiple kids sharing multiple gadgets as well as not tossing old gadgets when new ones are bought. Here's a list of all the different gadgets that I think could be considered 'gadgets': television, CD player, mp3 player, DVD/Blu-ray player, stereo system, camera, computer, laptop, gaming console (Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, PS2, PSP, DS DS-lite, DSi), cell phone, PDA... any additions (as well as some of the above) really just count as toys. Does a battery-powered toy car count as a gadget? or a baby bouncy that plays a song?

Sure, a household may have many or almost all of these things, (I'd bet that most readers have most of these) but I don't know how many real 'gadgets' belong to the kids exclusively, or aren't generationally-appropriate toys. To say it another way: just because it has a battery, doesn't make it a gadget. And just because the greys over at NPD didn't have it growing up doesn't mean that it's too tech-y.

Those Machines Bite, My Friend & Don't Care How OLD You Are nor Whom, Just that Machine IS Producing DATA.

Biting OFF Entire Hand Requires PAYBACK & Kids Are Kind of poor At That. So, Little toe or MAYBE NEW Dew. PlanBlamParfeit, Style:yes,yes.

Try ALL 11 Devices At Once, With & WithOut Others, InterMkxing & Machine Keeps Biting. Hummmmm.

Machines Vs Creepizoids.

And Winner IS:Machine Ultee'.

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You know what *I* had? A gameboy. A plain, original black and white gameboy with the greenish screen. I bought it at a yard sale for cheap.

Oh yeah, um, and I had to walk 50 miles to get it, uphill both ways!

Sheesh! In my youth a tv or a radio were the only thing that qualified as an electronic gadget and then you had to be able to afford one. We were so poor Mom had to cut a hole in our pockets so we'd have something to play with Xmas morn.

*wheeze* Blah blah blah.. And our computers used cards! We didnt have no 'game boys' or 'Play stations', we had real toys like 'ball in a cup. And we had to WORK for them too! Hell, when I was a kid, I got up at 4 in the morning, shoveled snow, fed animals, and cut wood for the day all before walking 50 miles back and forth to school barefoot! In the snow! Uphill Both ways! And when I got home, we ate dirt!

Kids have it too good these days.

This thread brings up an observation I had some time ago.

People often say that "kids are so much smarter than when I was a kid." I say these people are full of crap.

Kid's aren't any smarter, they just know different things. I was tearing apart and rebuilding lawnmower engines as a tweener. I was assembling old cars and doing body work as a teenager. Yes I also had some tech (TI99/4A and an Atari 800XL) that I programmed.

How many kids today even understand what a camshaft is?!?! How many of them can actually write a simple game instead of just use software someone else had programmed?!?!

But damn they sure can type on a cell phone!

Watched a show on TV last night called "It never did me any harm!" about making kids live as their parents did in the 70's.

From what I saw kids do have too many gadgets and not enough good hidings!

A few good slaps early on avoids a multitude of bad behaviour and self-centerdness later on.

Kids are just rude, empty shells of people with no concept of respect for others and consequences. Its all Me! Me! Meeee!

I dont ever remember daring to ask my father for money. I knew what the answer would be.

Thanks mum and dad for not bringing me up to be a total selfish arsehole that stabs people and then crys "it's not my fault!"

No kids crank up a dvd on their personal player or loose themselves in a video game. Not that I'm very old - but tech didn't dominate the toys of my age. We played with something called imagination. Or read a book. Built tent forts and invented games with silly rules to play together. Now children are entertained by pre-packaged corporate drivin activities that do little to stimulate reasoning and imagination. Its a good thing the population is on the rise in this respect as people are going to be on average a lot less creative in the future IMO.

You're all jealous that our generation had to make do with mini cereal boxes with knobs and a screen drawn on in pen.
Now the lil' f*ckers practically have the real thing.
But they'll never have what we have - that endless sense of wonder at each new generation of ultra-slim devices with real screens - look Ma, it's even smaller than those old mini-cereal boxes!

Beam mu up Scotty.

I'm 16 and definitely a techy/geeky kid. However, I would only say I have 4 gadgets. 2 being my watch and my cycle computer and the other 2 my gaming computer which removes the need for a console or TV and my Windows Moblie phone, which means I don't need an iPod/laptop/camera/portable games console.

I say the government should limit the amount gadgets people can have. That'll teach people to be more resourceful, independent and if they use windows mobile it'll improve their problem solving abilities.