Gadgetory

I know things can get a little cynical around here in the short time i've been doing top 5 i've managed alienate android fans gamers windows users Apple fanboys and of course the extremely vocal Brian Cooley fan club but with Thanksgiving in the air I think I'll take this opportunity to spread some love some geek gratitude Donnell Bell and in this episode of top 5 i'm counting down the technology we should all be thankful for the unsung heroes that we all take for granted starting off at number 5 4g LTE i think we can finally say that true 4G wireless is available in the united states we've been clawing our way towards this benchmark for years trying to convince ourselves that 3g isn't so bad desperately waiting for instagram photos to upload no more pretty soon we'll be talking about 3g the way we talk about dial up at number 4 good cheap tablets emphasis on the good right now we have no fewer than four great 7-inch tablets priced at one hundred ninety nine dollars or less a year ago we had one now it's the norm an entire generation of kids have been permanently scarred by the angry birds theme song ah number three connected TVs you've got apps built into a new TV or you're working with a Roku or xbox or Apple TV it's never been easier to get your favorite web content on the big screen now I'm not just talking about Netflix we're talking about itunes amazon Hulu YouTube and Google Play the cable companies are finally facing some competition and you're getting to watch more cool stuff at number two cell phone cameras ever since the iphone 4s hung its had on camera quality every smartphone competitor is raised their bar unless you're serious snob about your pictures the point and shoot is dead you've got one less thing to carry around throwing the 4g LTE from the top of this list and now you can / share your thanksgiving family photos at breakneck speed now before we get to the number one tech we should all be thankful for I can't help it I just have to complain about something if there is one technology I could just kick in the shins I would hand out honor to inkjet printers ah how is it that these things still require a billion different drivers and eat up ink cartridges and more than twenty dollars a pop it's like I'm feeding money into some manic-depressive robot that lives in my home I swear I can I could hear laughing at me when I'm sleeping all right to make up for it here's my number one tech we should all be thankful for search marty mcfly showed up from 1985 he wouldn't find hoverboards or flying cards but I still think we could blow his mind with a basic Google search we really really take this for granted but when you think about siri google now yelp wikipedia and all the information that's instantly at our fingertips anywhere in the world it's humbling so there you have it five technologies that i am thankful for and make me proud to be a nerd more top 5s like this visit top five CNN com you can also follow me on twitter and let me know what you're thankful for cnet com i'm donald you