Ever wondered what the top most searched techie gadgets are? Well, I certainly have, so when Yahoo! published their list of the most searched gadgets of 2008, I had to take a sneaky peek. And goodness, was I surprised.

Not very interesting was number 10’s entry, ‘Garmin’. That’s a make of GPS, if you were wondering.

Still huge in popularity at number 9 was the iPod. Pretty impressive that they’re still topping the tables after 7 years of sales.

Covering up slots 8, 5, 4 and 3 were various games consoles. No big shock there then.

What did surprise me, though, was numero uno on the list, the top gadget that you’re all searching for, the must have technological item of 2008. It’s a…wait for it…digital camera. Oh.

I thought we all had one these in this day and age. Well, plenty of us have done away with them altogether in favour of our all-singing, all dancing mobile phones that can take a better picture than the brick-sized cameras we had a few years ago, I suppose. So why on earth are we searching for them again?

Maybe it’s because they’re cheap. Maybe it’s because there are so many of them out there, we need help in buying them. Who knows. But it seems that even in these days of super consoles, phones and music gadgets, we still want to take a good old picture. Hurrah.

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