Endangered Tech

The DVD player has been declared the world’s most endangered piece of tech by online retailer Pixmania. Surprisingly, it came in ahead of the fax machine, which can still be found clinging on to dear life in offices across the UK.

The list was drawn up by a panel of tech experts who selected the 10 pieces of tech headed for extinction in 2010. Here’s the list in full:

1. DVD players
2. Fax machine
3. Analogue TV
4. The landline phone
5. Mobile phone charger
6. Wii-mote
7. Sat Navs
8. Dongle
9. The computer mouse
10. Chip and pin credit cards

Some entries will come as no surprise to most readers, but the list also features some relatively new technologies such as mobile web dongles, demonstrating just how quickly the tech world moves. For instance, Pixmania’s panel expect that mobile broadband dongles will soon be replaced by netbooks with integrated SIMs mad e by mobile phone companies such as Nokia.

The panel also indicated that Microsoft’s ground-breaking Project Natal would be so successful that it could actually spell the end of the Wii-mote. Similarly, they believed that Microsoft’s touch-screen interface for Windows 7 would kill the computer mouse.

via T3

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