People in today's society are consumed with gadgets and pricey objects and products produced by a world of technosavy people. Consumer in a product technosociety consists of not only knowing about design and objects but engaging yourself into the design world. In my world I consider many things to be authentic. Gadgets are authentic and they can change with time. Authentic things are also symbolic to certain people and can have different meanings to different people. To me doing what I love to do and hoping to make a career out of it is authentic. I enjoy design and learning new things about graphic design and software. People who are passionate about what they do make what they do authentic, whether it has been thought of before them if they enjoy it to them it can be authentic. A 'gadget' that has engaged my interest and represents my personal history and culture could be many things. One example could be a book I used to read as a child, or The Tale of Peter Rabbit stories my dad would read to me before I went to bed every night. Something that consumed me for so long even though I heard the same story over and over again I still loved it.
I think an object that is nostalgic to me is the old worn out red book of all the Beatrix Potter tales. I remember as a kid my dad would read each story to me, one a night until we got to the last one and he would start the entire book over the next night. This old book is symbolic to me of my childhood which is original and authentic.
A gadget that is nostalgic to me for recent times would be the iPod because over the past 10 years I have owned four iPods, the first generation iPod which was thick, while and had a black and white screen, then the first generation iPod touch, a pink shuffle for running, and lastly the new Nano touch.
