Plugged in

It is 7 0‘clock on an already-hot April morning in Bangalore and 34-year-old Nitin Pinnath is getting ready for work at his swish apartment on Hennur Road in eastern Bangalore. In his living room, a 43-inch Sony flat screen TV has already been switched on and Pinnath, a manager with networking giant Cisco Systems, is updating himself on the latest scores in cricket and the English Premier League as he checks the playlist on his black iPod and scans his e-mail on his Nokia E61 (his other phone, the N95, is loaned to his wife).

Pinnath’s tech toys Sony Vega 43-inch CRT projection, two iPods, Nokia N95, Nokia E61, HP Pavilion DV 9000 widescreen notebook, MacBook Pro, 2007 Canon digital camera, etc. |
After a hard day’s work, Pinnath jumps into his car around 6 p.m. and heads to Chisel, an upmarket gym, for his daily workout. Here too, he sticks to his own music list, plugging his iPod into his ears. Later, Pinnath heads back home and settles himself on his comfortable settee for a movie on his other favourite toy, an HP Pavilion DV 9000 widescreen notebook. His top-end Sennheiser ear phones plugged in, Pinnath prepares to begin his movie marathon.