Oprah's Favorite New Gadget

I love Oprah! When Oprah loves something she’s passionate about it and tells anyone who will listen to her.

Last week I was working from home, my usual Thursday routine. I had the TV on in the background (yes I work with the TV on). At 4pm, after watching Ellen DeGeneres dance at the beginning of her show, I changed to The Oprah Show. It was a great show about the documentary Food Inc., and at the end there was a special Amazon offer. I went to Oprah.com in search of the offer, I couldn’t find it, which turned out to be a blessing because what I did find was truly wonderful - Oprah’s favorite new gadget from Amazon, the Amazon Kindle. There’s a great article, "Oprah's Favorite New Gadget",
about all the reasons Oprah loves the Amazon Kindle. My favorite part is Oprah had Jeff Bezos, the Founder and CEO of Amazon, give a Kindle tutorial on her show to her entire studio audience and a group of moms in San Diego. It was fabulous! Doesn’t everyone call the
CEO when they want to know how to use their new gadget?! Check out the article and the video tutorial here, "Take Jeff Bezos Amazon Kindle Class".

I have only one piece of constructive criticism about the tutorial: it would have been better if there was a close up camera shot on the Kindle while Jeff Bezos was demonstrating how to use the features so the audience in the studio and at home could see what he was doing on the device. It appeared some of the audience was having a hard time following along, I think that would have helped them. Of course, this critique is more for the producers than Oprah or Jeff.

Finally, seeing all those women learn how to use the Kindle gave me a thrill as GoGadgetGurl!™, because there was an entire audience of women discussing how to use their new gadget together (yes Oprah gave everyone in the audience a Kindle).

I started this blog to encourage more conversations about our gadgets with each other. I believe the more we share our enthusiasm for - or frustration with - the tech in our lives it empowers us to participate more fully as savvy consumers in the design, development, and production of the next tech gadgets. Hope I don’t sound to preachy…

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Breast feeding with your iPhone

Huh!? That's was my first thought. I was talking to a colleague telling him about this blog and why I started it and he immediately got it. He told me that he's looking at his wife with a kindle on one side of her lap and the the iphone on the other while she's breast feeding their son, and thinks to himself her fitness magazine isn't talking about this. Exactly! there aren't any womens' magazine or even technology magazine's that review, evaluate, technology from a personal, lifestyle perspective. And for me being a female I really want to see in our womens' media cover technology from a lifestyle perspective. So, that's the reason I started the blog; to start, contribute, and enhance the conversation on how technology informs our decisions, our experiences, and our collective mindset.

And before I go, yes, I looked up the iPhone breast feeding apps and I am simply amazed! Since I haven't been blessed to me a mother yet, I didn't know how much information a mom has to track when she chooses to breast feed! These apps help moms keep track of everything from the last breast her baby fed on to tracking bowels (sorry if that's TMI for some of you). If you're a mom or a mom to be with an iphone and want to know more check out these iPhone apps, search on breast feeding at the App Store, or learn about Baby Tracker Nursing by http://www.andesigned.net/ for $7.99 and Breastfeeding by Lars Bergelt for $0.99.
The price difference is in the amount of information each tracks. I have to agree with one customer's comment, "Apps like this are what separate the iPhone."

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PS> and the Amazon kindle was reading material while breast feeding. Of course!