Thursday, October 20, 2011

7 Gadgets That Won't Be Around In 2020

1. Standalone GPS Systems
2. E-Readers
3. Feature Phones
4. Low-End Digital Cameras
5. Recordable CDs and DVDs
6. Video Game Consoles
7. DVD Players


Hindsight may always be 20-20, but you don’t need particularly great foresight to know many of the gadgets on today’s market won’t be around in 2020 given how quickly the tech industry keeps changing. In the first half of the 2000s, retailers were buzzing about the prospects of MP3 players and netbooks, but by the end of the decade, those products had largely been replaced by smartphones and tablets.

As tempting as it may be to imagine otherwise, some of the gadgets you may rely on most right now will likely suffer the same fate and be killed off or made obsolete by the end of this decade. Sure, you may still be able to find these products for sale in certain niche stores, but they will no longer be produced for a mass-market audience.

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