MODERN GADGETS Assalammuailaikum and good morning to the panel of honourable adjudicators, teachers, and friends.

On this finemorning, Gadgets of the Century would be the topic of my choice.Who in this world cant live without technology of the 21 st century?

People who are like 70,maybe. Our most essential item is most probably, hand phones. Even people in the village use hand phones as well as other devices. Obviously, we need the aid of technology to make hand phones to help us live our lives.Hand phones, cell phones, whatever people call it, the purpose of hand phones are to communicate with people who are far away, beyond shouting distance.

Models of handphones change every time. And more applications are added as new echnological items and softwares are introduced. There are several successful brands in the handphones business. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Motorola are normal among youngsters,even four years old! Sony Ericsson is one of the best brands for high quality pictures andsound.

Who would ignore that?As for me, besides hand phones, the internet is a great part of my entertainment life.Students nowadays get bored easily if they dont get to surf the internet. Even with hundreds of channels on the television , it is not the same with the unlimited information on the internet.

Students like me, join networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, and Friendster. There,we can chat with our friends online like we do on Yahoo! Messenger and MSNs WindowsLive Messenger. Besides networking sites, we get to post what we are doing on Twitter and check on what our favourite stars are doing.

Blogging is an option for people who prefer telling others what they did or experienced in posts. Popular blogging sites are Wordpress,BlogSpot, and Live Journal. Yahoo! added a chat box at our inbox. This helps us to chat with our buddies while we check our emails.

Ladies and gentlemen, Music is an important way to express ourselves and have fun. There are many ways of playing music. I prefer small devices that can fit the pocket of my jeans. Disk players were popular in the 90s. The 21 st century offers smaller devices like the MP3, MP4, MP5 and so on. iPods are quite popular these days. There is the iPod Nano which the MP4 took its appearance. The iPod was made by Apple. These music players come in handy while us students are on the go and still have something to keep us entertained.

First it was called thumbdrive. Then it was pendrive. Pendrives comes in various shapes and sizes. What matter is the capacity. The smallest capacity for a pendrive is

1 gigabyte. Im not sure of the largest capacity, only those who really cares of the details does. Pendrives are devices that enable us to store files and information. We can also store movies in them.

Pendrives come in handy for students who need to make a computerised presentation.

Computers went from huge and bulky to flat and sleek. Computers can be from Dell, Acer,HP and the most popular for its terrific sound system and graphic, Apple. Impossible, I guess. Some people call computers PCs or desktops.

Multitasking is quite normal these days for teenagers when it comes to technology and its

wonderful gadgets. It is just a piece of cake nowadays among students. Multitasking helps us to do many things and reducewasting time.

These days, everybody needs the help of the modern marvels. Young and old, we humans invent and upgrade these gadgets for our daily use. No matter what we do, we have to use them and it will become ancient to the future generation. We live our lives to the fullest,leaving memories and the ancient world of the 20 th century.

With that, I thank you.