A gadget live
Fred Barbash from the The Washington Post wrote a great article about how gadgets changed our life. His wonderful example is a car ride.
Even the listing of gadgets used in the car is immense.
… I needed a six-foot extension cord with a four-socket adapter, so many gadgets did we carry in our car.
There was the Nuvi navigator and digital entertainment system mounted by suction cup on my windshield. There were two iPods, accompanied by a device that charges the iPod and emits an FM signal simultaneously so you can hear the iPod on the car radio.
Wedged into an unoccupied pop-open drawer on my dash was a satellite radio offering more than 200 channels. My Razr cellphone sat in a cup holder along with a Bluetooth earpiece. My Starcom PDA, a pocket-size laptop….
But when he writes about the result I think something has to change..
…All the devices reported to me at once, the Nuvi, the Tele Aid and the traffic channel on the radio in a cacophony of synthesized speech. I, in turn, started shouting at Tele Aid in a desperate effort to change the function. From the rear, I could hear the theme to "Ghostbusters,'' I think it was, coming from the DVD player while the Razr in my cup holder vibrated against the plastic as junk mail announced its arrival on my cellphone….
A day in the 21. century, read on at:
The Detroit News Online
Picture from Techdigest
Funny but a truly great article about life in the 21st century. It seems that as we try and get more organized and productive (i.e. multi-task even when driving), we take three steps back and become less organized or productive hehe.
Absolutely right. My word is that simplifing will drive the techwear market. (Maybe because IT people mostly do not understand the prolem of “simple”…
The real problem is that the man loves gadgets but he got himself so many that he can’t handle all of them without them interfeering. The solution is to buy only one gadget which incorporates as many as possible of the ones he got right now.
A second solution is when you buy just choose the gadgets to create a harmony in your car, not chaos.