‘Technosexuals’ get nerds out of the closet
A snippet from the Taipei Times:
Technosexuals — - the freakish gadget dandies who like their technology as sexy as they are — were in virtual heaven over the weekend in Las Vegas as the annual Consumer Electronics Show coincided with the porn industry’s annual awards bash.The term technosexuals was invented last year as a backlash to the conventional image of technology geeks as unwashed, uncool men with pizza crumbs stuck in their beards. But it also connotes the growing focus in the technology industry on making products for fashionable lifestyles — from tiny pink cellphones equipped with MP3 players and digital cameras, to sleek red laptops designed to complement the little red Ferrari in the driveway.
Paradoxically, as the staid stable of tech companies were trying to get sexy, the sexy world of the Adult Entertainment Expo was going more mainstream. Respectable Columbia House, which dominates the book, music and DVD subscription clubs, was at the steamy expo preparing to launch a similar club for connoisseurs of porn.
The porn stars were out on the town more than they were at the packed convention center, mingling in surreal fashion with tech industry insiders.
There was hardly a bar in Vegas that did not feature provocative women with large silicon implants wearing skimpy clothes that seem to be shrinking even faster than the world’s average gadget size.
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