Game in the Brain

I used the Palm Treo extensively, it was my phone for 4 years and I was able to use a lot of its features. I remember when there was doubt as to the future of Smart Phones, and looking back, why would there be? If you consider how moore’s law is progressing, then the lessons learned in the smart phone evolution is that wearable devices that fit seamlessly into your life style is next.

I’ll repeat the hardest part: Seamlessly. There is a learning curve in the technology we have now. Even now I have not fully mastered my Note 2, although I’ve rooted it which took a lot of effort and study. Then there are the new painting programs in the Note 10.1 that makes my drawing pretty convenient. I got the SNote, Photoshop Touch, Infinite Painter and Autodesks’ Sketchbook Pro. They all need to be learned and mastered. There are few helpful tutorials, although its relatively easier to learn than other disciplines. So seamlessly does not mean effortless, and there will be a new set of skills needed to maximize the new products.

Currently I’m wishing for products that let me type on the go. I may have a slow reading speed but my typing speed is pretty good, simply because I get a lot of practice airing my thoughts. If there was a way to draw while walking or doing other things I would do that. I have a feeling the next group of wearable devices will be wrist computers, like the “gear” series, with rings that add points on inference. Basically a means to do “Air Keyboard” and “Air Drawing”. Wearable visual head gear would just give feedback, and doesnt really need to really capture everything.

Gesture technology would be the skills needed to use wearable devices optimally. Which means an elite group of workers will be liberated from their desks – which would be distracting at first, but if they are as professional as they should be – learn to reign it in and further optimize their habits. Walking while working and various other habits that optimizes time and motion.

So the lower Tier electronics producers may be trying to develop this, OR find a niche in this new electronic environment. Google i pretty aggressive in the VR and Augmented reality side – which is obvious to futurists or sci-fi geeks what they are predicting to be next. But in the end, it will require skill and early adopters, even at the great cost of first move advantage may convert this to good habits and practices earlier than others – establishing their dominance in their niche despite everyone catching on.

hopefully there is room for us who don’t program, or don’t have time to learn to program YET.