6 Endangered Tech Species

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Picking up an Apple AAPL iPad or clamoring for Amazon's AMZN Kindle? You may as well get a DVD player, too, as their combined usefulness is on the clock. The future of technology is integration, something Apple's iPhone and Google's GOOG Android products have a better grasp of than, say, Garmin's GRMN personal navigation devices or Acer's netbooks. Though there seems to be enough room for everyone -- with the Commerce Department finding last week that American spending on tech items increased 1.8% from 2007 through the first six months of this year while spending on appliances, furniture and clothing declined -- analysts agree that the only thing separating some gadgets from the grave is the size of their displays. To read the rest, head over to TheStreet.com