Monday, July 10, 2006

You go, girl gadgeteer

Stop Gina Hughes in the street on any given day and you'll find the following in her bag: a Treo, a Bluetooth headset, a digital camera, an iPod--and, quite possibly, a few more gadgets for good measure. Swing by her house and you'll see a couple of TiVos and flat-panel televisions, a MacBook Pro, a camcorder, a PlayStation Portable and a Nintendo DS Lite. Hughes, who writes a tech column for Yahoo, could be the poster child for <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6091926.html?tag=zdnn.alert">today's girl gadgeteers.</A> Passionate and knowledgeable about her gear, and a careful consumer known to spend weeks researching a product before plunking down her cash, she's part of a growing legion of women who, more than ever before, are getting gung ho about gadgets. And figures show they're becoming major players in the consumer-electronics market.

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