Man, these cell phones can do everything these days which is great for us but not so great for some technologies that we simply won’t need anymore after this year, if you’re still using them at all.  The Los Angles Times listed their top 10 tech items we can kiss goodbye:

1. The Flip cam: We will fondly remember this slim little $100 digital camcorder for its prevalence in newsrooms in the late 2000s, as print reporters morphed into “multi-platform journalists.” Then came the smartphones with video capabilities, and the Flip cam became so obsolete that Cisco announced it would stop making it in April of this year.

2. The portable DVD player: That savior on long airplane rides dazzled us with its long battery life and swivel screen. But if you’re already traveling with a laptop or one of the increasingly ubiquitous tablets that let you watch downloaded movies, you’re probably not going to lug this additional device in your carry on.

See the rest of the list after the jump.

3. Flash drives: Not so long ago, the flash drive felt like a symbol of our incredible technological progress — dozens of high-resolution photos or scores of documents stored on a little device you could hang on your key chain. But thanks to the rise of cloud computing and the ease of sending giant files, the 2-inch flash drive has come to seem almost clunky.

4. GPS devices for your car: For those of us with no sense of direction, the Garmin was a game changer. Gone was the anxiety that we missed the exit, even if that exit was still 15 miles away. The interface was simple as could be, the woman’s voice only occasionally irritating as she “recalculated.” Getting our directions via iPhone is a significantly worse user experience, but we’ve always got our iPhone on us, and it’s always charged.

5. The (small) digital camera: We are not heralding the demise of the digital camera. Actually, we’ve noticed enormous, professional-grade, safari-ready cameras popping up on playgrounds and at winter concerts with alarming regularity. But that point-and-shoot you bought to throw in your pocket or purse in case a too-good-to-miss photo op arose? You’ve got your smartphone now.

6. The fax machine: The ability to send printed documents through the phone line probably felt like magic back in the day, but it made that horrible screeching noise, never really worked consistently, and it takes up tons of space. We’ve long considered the fax machine our arch-enemy and are delighted to see it go.

7. Netbooks: These pint-sized computers seemed all kind of useful circa 2008-09. Smaller, cheaper and lighter than the average laptop, they were the precursor to the tablet. But now we’ve got tablets and portable keyboards, so — so long!

8. CD player: For those of us who spent the ’90s and early part of the 2000s amassing CD collections that we were proud to display in our dorm rooms, the death of the CD player is still a little hard to stomach. But we get it — CDs take up more room than MP3 files, and they don’t have the cachet of vinyl. We might be hanging on to our CD player, but you don’t have to hang on to yours.

9. Voice recorders: First came the giant cassette recorders that resembled Walkmans from the ’80s, then came the slimmer micro-cassette recorder, and then came the even more minimal digital voice recorder. Then came the smartphone with built-in recording technology, and everything else became obsolete.

10. PDA: We have such fond memories of our Palm Pilot. That nice U shape, the little stylus, the weird script you had to learn in order to put information into it. It was tactile and interactive and pleasant to hold in your hand. It makes no sense today, but if you’ve held on to yours, we tip our hat to you.

We will miss all of these with the exception of the PDA – who STILL had that…….

Tagged as: 2011, Flip Cam, GPS, Obsolete, Phased Out, Portable DVD Player, Technology