English | Deutsch English | DeutschA recent Nokia advertisement promoting its N95 smartphone.
As many of my colleagues know, one of my favorite websites these days is Digg.com – which, if you haven’t been yet, is a glimpse into the future of content delivery on the web. Users drive the site, rather than editors, by voting on the stories to be featured on their homepage. It’s pretty standard for the stories which appear on Digg to focus on new technology, and Apple stories always get a lot of play. But for the last few months, I’ve been dumbfounded by the consistency in which iPhone unlocking stories have wound up among the Top 10.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m a huge …
An early version of Microsoft Word for the Mac.
Technophiles have always been a nostalgic group: witness the guy who converted his spare room into an Apple museum (much to his wife’s dismay, no doubt), or any of the retro design elements that have been making their way into our new electronics. But lately there are signs that there’s more than just nostalgia at work; that as technology consumers, we often prefer the good old days, and we want them back.
Exhibit one: Windows Vista. There’s been enough said about Vista’s failure to live up to the hype to fill a thousand blogs, much of it a rancor …
Welcome to the first post on Ideator. This blog is a response to the barrage of technology and design blogs that breathlessly post on the latest and greatest. We at Ideator also love the latest and greatest, but we’re more interested on how these developments are impacting the way people live. Is the PS3 really all that innovative? Is anyone using all the features in their new car? What’s revolutionary and what’s just a new skin on a bad product? Where does the hype end, and where to the new ideas begin? These are the questions we will endeavor to answer.
So welcome – and please feel free to post in the comments. Looking forward to some interesting conversations in the …
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