Here’s some symptoms of early adopter’s disease…  

• you subscribe to multiple tech blog feeds.  Even worse, you follow all their twitter feeds.  Even worse than that, you are a fan of their facebook page. Oh and  by “multiple”, I mean so many that you have 100 new posts an hour coming into your feed reader.
• All non essential activity stops and you drool when watching an announcement on the latest gadget.  Essential activity is breathing.
• When a new gadget is released you read every article that get’s written on it.  Anything else is old news.  What oil spill?
• You know of gadgets that no one else you know has heard of.
• You begin a lot of conversations with, “Hey did you hear about this? ___________”  and proceed to describe in glorious detail the incredible features of the gadget that will save the world.  Well, at least make the world a better place to live.  Well, at least make YOUR world a better place to live….
• Things aren’t cool, they are magical.
• You don’t understand why people get frustrated when something doesn’t work.  Your patience level is god-like when working with new stuff.  Which is probably why….