I was reading Wired today and they mentioned the term 'technosexual'. I had never heard of it, so I did a quick google and came up with this:
(from
TheWordSpy)
Quote:
Earlier this year [2004], people who spend less money on mousse and more on mouse pads decided that if the style-savvy guys could get their hands on a marketable brand name, then the uber-geeks could certainly come up with something better than nerd: Thus, the term "technosexual" was born.
A technosexual is not simply in touch with his feminine side but is connected to it on multiple platforms. He likes gadgets that have lots of gigabytes but are still small enough to fit in his pocket.
—Eric Edwards, "A new kind of lingo for those who tango," Orlando Sentinel (Florida), May 7, 2004
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As I understand it, a technosexual is a metrosexual that has cool geek gadgets (that's how Wired explained it). I think the random terms like this are just getting worse and worse... I'm not sure why they have to put '-sexual' on the end of things now. If a technosexual is just a metrosexual with geek toys, that means a technosexual cannot be gay (as a metrosexual is not gay). What happens if you're gay and you have cool geek toys? What random term do you get then?
Has anyone else heard of this? Do you think you're a 'technosexual'?
One more link, to
technosexual.org