I’m such a gadget freak, and it seems to me that there as been a dearth of creative gadgets over the last decade or so.
Cell phones have met a certain design limit, and need to be rethought IMO. It’s time for a breath of fresh air.
The iPhone is a good product, but there are even problems with that.
The last decade has brought us MP3 players, phones with cameras, phones that are almost computers, pocket PCs the size of trade paperbacks with full laptop functionality, digital cameras that are affordable and actually useful, Bluetooth, not to mention the huge technical leaps in handheld gaming and e-books. then of course there’s the device that made a lot of that possible: SD cards (and their cousins, mini and micro-SD), I’m not sure how anybody over the age of 30 can look at a piece of plastic the size of your pinkie nail that can hold two complete movies (8 GB microSD) and not say “woh”.
There’s been a lot of killer stuff in the last decade, of course most of it so quickly becomes just a part of life I think we no longer get the “gee whiz” time that used to make gadgets cool.