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Top five gadgets to avoid gives a peek into companies' technology strategies and consumer response

On the technology curve the leading edge is dedicated to the 'early adopters' who buy the latest gadget no matter what the cost is. These people are pretty useful because they act as an early 'heads up' group. They filter through upcoming technology and give us a hint as to what is a useful device or not. The early PDA users suffered through awkward hand-writing technology, and early computer users pushed through text-based prompts for the rest of us. A look at which companies are adopting them though, and the risk therein, can be useful for investing purposes.

Smart Money recently published a list of five gadgets not to buy and gave its reasons for consumers to avoid it. Of the five, Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) got dinged pretty hard by the article due to products of their own and their close relationship to others.

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