New Tech Toys
I’m posting from my new Motorola Droid. It’s frustratingly wonderful. Or wonderfully frustrating. The WordPress app seems to be working well and I’m getting the hang of the keyboard. Immersion seems to be the key for me. I typically type 125-150 words per minute, not as fast as I think of course, but fast enough that I don’t get frustrated. Blogging on Droid is painfully slow. It is helping me improve my texting skills. I am a latecomer to that game. But I saw some iPhone commercials and decided to give up my granny phone and enter the new century.
What I saw in particular was an ad for an augmented reality app. You hold up your phone to a street sign and it tells you where you are (useful if you are lost in a new city), what’s around you, and how to get where you’re going. At first I thought the app was neat but pointless, but then I thought about my upcoming trip to Rome. Very useful. Unfortunately I’m locked into Verizon and therefore the Droid. So far it’s been quite fun. I can’t compare it to the iPhone or any other smartphone since I lack experience.
The whole concept of augmented reality, which I read somewhere is one of the most significant developments on the web, brings us one step closer to virtual reality and the net as envisioned by Gibson and other SF/cyberpunk writers (we should really call them theorists). It’s quite exciting to see. I feel like my grandfather must have felt with the shift from horses to cars. OK, not quite.
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