Posts tagged Convergence
Home of the Future In 10 Years? Maybe Less
22 years ago
by David van Sunder
in Technology
Behold the Future! Photo Courtesy of DISPLAX
Some of the products I’ve read about lately have covered technologies that are hastening my predictions for the house of tomorrow to fruition. There are two that I have found noteworthy. The first is the Toshiba Satellite E205 laptop, which I saw on an Engadget review. It’s a laptop that wirelessly sends video to a television using an included Netgear Push2TV box connected to the television’s HDMI or component inputs. That device is portable (though not yet as portable as I predicted) and will transmit video directly to another screen. It’s not quite as flexible as what I described either, but I wasn’t predicting this to be the year that the house of the future would arrive. I still have 10 years left for that prediction. (more…)
Tool/Gadget Convergence In My Life
62 years ago
by David van Sunder
in General
Why I don't have full pockets. Photo by Terry Johnston via Flickr
Over the years I’ve listened to so many tech pundits talking about how people don’t want converged devices. Then more and more devices converged. Once again tech pundits said that only tech enthusiasts would be interested in converged devices. These days mainstream consumers are embracing converged devices and it only looks like that trend is going to continue.
So, today I decided to list the progression of tools that I have used for different tasks during my work career. I’m going to leave out computers and be purposely vague about mobile phones though because honestly I can’t remember all the different models of each I have used over the years. My lists run from 1998 through today. (more…)