Patricia and Gadgets
>> Friday, July 31, 2009
Patricia asked: I have a technology question. Do you think we will see the computer, the television, and the cell phone combined into one device in the near future? If so, how far?
Ah, yes.
How soon?
Yesterday...
Check out this and this and this and this.
The question isn't really if we'll see it but what seeing it would buy us? I can play videos on my $100 phone. I can play mp3s. I can surf the internet. I can calculate tips, and schedule things. I can check my email. If I need more functionality, I can get it for only a couple hundred more, including writing files and updating my blog, etc.
What else do I need? Well, if there's something, chances are the Japanese already have it. But, my mind boggles at what it could be.
The iPhone certainly does all that, and I believe there are Blackberries that do, too. Heh, heh! Weren't we just talking last week about how small and yet even more powerful computers have become?
I am SO in the dark ages! Thanks, Stephanie!
It was interesting to me that I read the article on Japanese cell phones only days before your question. Serendipity in action.
i bet in the near future there will be eye implants that do all of these functions. or a small implant projecting images in 3-d and partly transparent so walking and daily fuctions are still feasible.
it is the way of the future... it is just a matter of time, maybe 15 years. who knows how long for sure, if we get a technological breakthrough like when the computer chip came out. then it could be sooner...
I'm going to hold out for the brain implant.
I'm still waiting for replicators, hollodecks and transporting machines, I was born way too early,lol.
@Bob
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482264,00.html
Yep, we have all that stuff in development and teleportation is working. The next 15 years will rock.