Flaunt it!

As might have been expectedというフレーズがありますが，その通り，今日，親友の研究室に行くと，「待ってました！」とばかりに，「あれ」が私に向けて，置いてありました。

それからの彼は語る，語る。熱い語りは30分にも及びました。
さて，iPadに代表されるIT器機を，「「（とにかく）人より先に手にしたいと思う人」，「初物好きな人」）という表現を英語では何というのかな（techno-savvy, technophile以外に）という問いを，ずいぶんと昔にいたしました。ところが反応がまったくなし！（お前らなぁ！ゼミ生，しっかりしろ！）
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20100528/1275030681
ということで以下，私のe-Gleaningからです。直截的なものはないかもしれませんが，太字にした部分がかろうじて近いのかなと思っています。
NEW YORK (AP/WSYR) - Apple's much-anticipated iPad went on sale Saturday morning. Some early-adopters waited outside the Apple Store in Carousel Center overnight, just to get their hands on the new gadget.

Roger Wortham, a student, tried to get in line Friday night, but Carousel Center security asked him to wait outside the mall until doors opened early in the morning. He waited in his car. "I'm a fan-boy, definitely," he said. Then, looking at the line that had grown behind him he added, "I'm not the only one obviously."
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Apple-fans-line-up-to-buy-the-iPad/XR_ysehVUU2H3CNzaHYZhA.cspx
The rain didn't stop several hundred Apple enthusiasts from lining up outside the North Michigan Avenue store on Saturday morning to get first crack at the company's new iPad tablet.
http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/04/apple-fans-line-up-to-get-their-ipad.html
Gadget-seekers determined to be among the first to get their hands on an iPad began queuing outside Apple's flagship shop in Manhattan a day ahead of the tablet computer's Saturday debut.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/apple-fans-line-up-to-buy-ipad-in-us-20100403-rkdc.html
Well, it looks like at least someone wants the iPad. A crowd of several hundred lined up outside Apple's flagship "cube" store on Fifth Avenue for a chance to snag the new tablet Saturday, with scores of other line-sitters waiting their turn at Apple Stores from Pasadena, California, to Knoxville, Tennessee. No, the lines weren't as long as those we'd seen (and experienced) for the iPhone in previous years, but apparently they were no less enthusiastic, and so far, at least, no train wrecks.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100403/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1446
The Gadget Hound
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=94423985&newsChannel=technologyNews