Cyber Monday: Get your iGeneration gadget groove on

By | November 27, 2010, 5:17pm PST

Summary: Gallery: Now that Cyber Monday is upon is, here are two galleries running through the best and the worst products, services and gadgets the Generation Y should need to keep ticking over until at least Christmas.

So we’ve had Thanksgiving (well I say we, I mean you), and suffered through Black Friday, and now Cyber Monday is upon is.

Well never fear! Hopefully before you reach the end of the month and get your bank statements through, you would have bought some sensible products, services and gadgets which will keep you ticking over through your remaining university days.

In this short post, I offer you kind people a selection of Generation Y-focused bits and bobs to buy, as well as the ones to avoid during your spending spree.

Gallery: 10 things to get for Cyber Monday

To have a perusal through ten things you should think about getting to bump up your Generation Y status, including some obvious things and even some free stuff, check out the gallery.

Gallery: 10 things to avoid on Cyber Monday

To brief yourself on ten things you shouldn’t get on Cyber Monday - the stuff which will help you lose your Generation Y credibility, then head over here and check out this gallery.

If there’s anything you are dying to buy for yourself that isn’t included on either gallery, by all means leave your suggests on each one. At the end of the day, if you want to share your great product suggestion with the community, you could be doing your fellow citizen consumer a favour.

Happy Cyber Monday!

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Zack Whittaker, a criminologist who studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury, is a journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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Zack Whittaker

I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views.

I don't hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names I am not at liberty to disclose.

I was involved with Kent Union, the University of Kent's student union, undertaking voluntary, non-salaried, elected positions between early 2009 and mid-2010.

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I currently work with a UK law enforcement unit, but this is an entirely separate position which bears no connection to other work.

(Updated: 23rd October 2011)

Biography

Zack Whittaker

Zack Whittaker, criminologist who studied at the University of Kent, UK, is a journalist, writer and broadcaster.

After studying criminology at university, though still in his early-20's, he has already had a series unconventional work and voluntary positions. He has worked with researchers studying neurological illnesses like Tourette's syndrome (which he suffers from), has given lectures on the nature of disabilities in the public community, and occasionally ends up speaking on television and radio discussing the events of the day.

He first had academic work published at the age of 22, then still an undergraduate, and has been cited by a wide range of publications: from the Huffington Post, Business Insider, AllThingsDigital, The Atlantic Wire and CBS News.

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