Addicted to your Blackberry?
Go-anywhere e-mail connectivity is a boon, and a bane
Forbes.com Staff
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Its nickname, CrackBerry, says it all. There is no recreational use of Research in Motions BlackBerry. It is a compulsive addiction, or you
e not a user.
Academic studies back up the notion. One, by David Vance, assistant professor of accounting at Rutgers-Camden university, and Nada Kakabadse, professor of management and business research at the U.K.s University of Northampton, found that a third of BlackBerry users show signs of addiction similar to alcoholics.
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Many companies would give a kings ransom for such customer dependency. Research in Motions quarterly results announced April 2 show that, regardless of the slowing economy, there is no letup in the demand for the companys push ...
MECCANICO DG WATCH BY DE GRISOGONO
Introducing the worlds first mechanically powered digital watch
A god among watches, this is possibly the most sophisticated design youll ever wear on your wrist. Born from the imagination of the owner of de Grisogono, Fazwa Gruosi, the Meccanico dG is the worlds first mechanically powered digital watch. Bearing both an analogue display at the top of the dial and digital one at the bottom, this device is solely mechanical.
Clever, right? More than you think: beneath the analogue portion of the two-timezone watch is a numerical display driven by the intricate maze of 651 components. The numbers are then formed by the shifting motion of 23 cams and gears, all confined to a space no larger than the size of a matchbox. The design was released to coincide with the Geneva-based companys 15th birthday, and only 177 were ever produced in a colour selection of titanium, titanium and rubber, titanium and platinum, pink gold and red gold.
Sizing up at 58mm by 48m, this isn a watch for those ...
