When I was 10 years old, my fifth grade teacher made us write a paper that answered the question, What does the year 2000 look like to you? Back then I was fully anticipating a future filled with all the gadgets and doodads I had seen on the Jetsons. I wrote about the flying cars, the assembly line of morning rituals and the robot maid, Rosie. I was completely convinced that by the year 2000, we would all be living in huge high-rise apartments with flying cars, hovercrafts, and jet packs. Well the year 2000 came and past and it looked nothing like my paper. Although, now in 2007, we dont yet have those flying cars and interactive robot maids, we do have some pretty amazing technological gadgets that have expanded and enhanced both the consumer market and, more importantly, the promotional products industry.
With all the technological advances over the past ten years, the consumer market has created and designed entirely new products available for everyday use. Innovations like the cell phone and even DVD player have revolutionized the way people think, shop and want because companies and businesses face them with more and more options. “Technology is an extremely...