Reached gadget overload? Join the club

True technology addicts wouldn't part with their gadgets until they're pried away from their cold, dead hands. But many of the rest of are on the verge of reaching a saturation point--if not already engaged in an outright backlash--and we didn't need any market researcher to tell us so.

Even tech-savvy bloggers concede that they have suffered various forms of gadgetry overload, whether it be irritating ring tones or computer games that have taken over our family time. Blogma is no exception in the department of pet peeves, and this one can be taken literally: a device called Bow-Lingual (we kid you not) that informs dog owners how Fido is feeling.

Blog community response:

"Last night I saw something that just made me say...'Ok that's enough.' It was for some cell phone company that has a cool add-on feature. Let's say you call someone and their line is busy. You can leave a directive for the 'phone' to keep dialing until the person that you called is off the call that made the line busy. Then when their phone rings they pick up and instead of hearing your ringer tone they hear music that you have chosen for them to listen to. With the price of gas and eventually a gallon of milk do we, the consumer, need more stuff?"
--r-u-serious

"Today's kids are technologically smarter than we were at their age, but in some homes technology seems to have taken control of our children's lives. With our children coming home from school, sitting in front of the computer or spending time playing video games it's no wonder obesity is on the rise."
--Game Cheats

"It appears that we're finally reaching a backlash from the 'simplicity' crowd. This isn't, necessarily, a Luddite style response (though, it's likely to be co-opted by that crowd), but simply a suggestion that you don't have to always be connected, and you don't have to have the latest and greatest of every gadget."
--Techdirt