Steve JobsAre your gadgets turning you into a mindless drone? Of course they aren't. Your television already beat them to it.

The New York Times recently reported that the constant connection to email, chats, texts and the rest of the Web has finally taken a toll on us. The brain's "ability to focus is undermined by bursts of information."

The article also notes that multitaskers are less effective and more stressed than everyone else, and the constant disruption and lack of focus exists even when they unplug. Researchers compare the need to be constantly online to cravings for sex, which they suggest are "counterproductive in excess."

But today, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone version 4, so that emptiness filling your soul should be plugged as you fixate on its beauty ... for about a week.