But will there be a market for these devices outside of early-adopter technophiles and loyalists who will scoop up any new product their favorite company creates?
First, the very idea of running standard Palm applications on a device the size of a wristwatch is pretty cool, one that will appeal to the early-adopter set.
In her inaugural blog post as a member of the OUYA team Kellee Santiago revealed a promotional push aimed at benefiting both the console and some of its early-adopter developers.
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Netflix was an early-adopter of these types of services and ultimately has become a success story for leveraging shared resources at the start of testing a business model before investing in dedicated hardware.
When you already have calendars on our phones, through Google, and at the workplace, would you really want to open up an app just to see what a couple early-adopter friends were planning?
The early-adopter set has been playing with home networking for a few years, but now the technology is spreading to mainstream consumers, who want to split the fast Internet connection of a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) among several PCs, and also share computer files and peripherals such as printers and scanners.
Curry, who considers himself a geek -- he registered the MTV.com domain before most people knew what such a thing even meant, then went on to become an early adopter to podcasts -- sees "My Life as Liz" as similar to other reality shows.
Outside-in thinking allows early adopter companies to thrive, while others will struggle to redefine their value.
For a category that was once regarded as an odd-duck luxury for the early adopter, 2012 certainly saw the portable computing tech grow closer to becoming a true laptop alternative.
It was not the most adept early adopter of online ticketing, self-service airport kiosks or in-flight technology and entertainment.
Carrie Stevens, 29, is a Chicago-based witty, dynamic Internet early adopter.
The same early adopter consumer that will buy a 5-incher will also want another, trimmer phone.
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The latest digitally-driven marketing meme caught fire among the early adopter crowd late this Summer and is a hot topic of conversation at the New York ad fest this week.
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Still, with wireless Skype handsets, portable Vonage adapters, and all manner of VoIP software for WiFi-enabled cellphones, it seems like the early adopter crowd Earthlink has its sights on in Anaheim might need a little more incentive to drop a couple hundred on a handset that may or may not only make calls on Earthlink's SoCal WiFi rollout.
Sir Frank Crisp at Friar Park in Oxfordshire was another early adopter, with his grand country house garden housing several of the 1m-tall gnomes by the late 1890s.
This is, basically, a new ecosystem and it will certainly grow -- we're just advising patience if you insist on buying the Surface as an early adopter.
And besides, we don't know too many early adopter types that could resist the siren call of 3G halfway through their existing iPhone contract, thereby re-upping their contract for another few millenia.
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