Leaps and Bounds
Pause for a minute. Think about a computer the size of a passport. Not a PDA, not one of those weak portable media players, a computer. Bright hi-res screen, faster than your laptop, full wifi, bluetooth, camera for video conferencing, connecting wirelessly with an LCD projector for powerpoint presentations or movies or whatever. Like a laptop but faster, brighter, sleeker, more durable, flexible (like a passport - we’re thinking passports, remember?), battery life that outlasts your blackberry.
Pieces are coming together for this. Coming together fast, too.
Organic LCDs (OLCD) have been talk for a while now, wirless networks are becoming more and more present (I worry about brain cancer when I can find 20 BT signals in Stanford’s library), processors are getting smaller and faster (a horizon is about to be broken here, I’d be AMAZED if it took two years to crack), batteries are about to see it too (though I don’t like the idea of a hydrogen cell from Sony exploding, I guess it’ll be fine as long as you’re not smoking when it happens), and now solid state drives (like an SD chip or USB Flash drive) have jumped in speed.
Intel and Micron have announced a chip that’s 5x faster than what’s on the market now. You know that USB 2.0 junk? It’s faster than that. It’s bored by USB 2.0. It’s like a girlfriend that doesn’t know who the Sec Gen of the UN is (if you just thought Kofi Annan you lose the right to be disgruntled with anyone else’s political awareness, including people from Florida)
All we need now are speakers from our cell phones that don’t suck. Skull Candy, care to step up?