On Super Bowl Sunday, when most New Yorkers were prepping for the big game, hundreds of fashion and technology devotees were going head to head.
Since then, Firefox, which has prospered under the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, has grown to be the largest rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with 15 to 20percentt of the browser market worldwide and higher percentages in Europe and among technology devotees.
Although most technology devotees knew Ginger was a scooter, many had expected it at least to have a revolutionary power source, running on a highly efficient Stirling engine, perhaps, or using hydrogen propulsion.
Given the accessibility of the technology, some digital devotees say fans should simply work harder to come up with their own material: "Make you OWN FILM," Kevin Rubio wrote on TheForce.net discussion board.
Consequently, topics of discussion tended toward spreading the passion for the technology beyond current devotees.
A more unusual chip technology story came from devotees of the virtual currency Bitcoin, who started designing custom chips to help them "mine" digital cash faster.
Blamey remained a devotee of new technology.
For devotees of new technology, the people who help set trends and chase the latest gadgets, the joy of buying a new smartphone has been met with an equally strong annoyance: long-term commitment.
And never mind that Google and Apple have a seemingly insurmountable lead in smartphone technology, market share, and fanboy devotees.
Technology competing against technology.
A devotee of early cinema technology, he used rotoscopy, a technique devised by Max Fleischer for animating live-action scenes, in "Fuji" (1974), a quasitravelogue based on his experiences in Japan in 1970.
