What changes would you make to an existing piece of technology?
November 19th, 2007 Posted in Internet, Technology
As inspired by the Science Week posts over on Mulley.net
What changes would you make to an existing piece of technology?
I’d love it my Sony Ericsson w850i had a QWERTY keyboard and a slightly larger screen, so I could write longer e-mails and not get frustrated with text message input limitations. Besides, most of the smart phones out there at the moment that have QWERTY keyboards are the size of bloody toasters. (No thank you!)
So… what changes would you make to an existing piece of technology?
November 20th, 2007 at 3:52 am
I want to make my house smarter. It needs to do more to save energy and to keep me alert to things that result in greater productivity and better living.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:34 am
I’d make the $100 laptop cost $100.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:02 am
I imagine that when they thought up the idea that the dollar was far stronger.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
People must think that their technology is flawless :O
November 26th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Personally, I would like software to be improved. If they could rewrite it so that it would just do its job without crashing, freezing, doing the wrong thing, costing too much, taking too much space or taking too much memory.
Maybe I’m asking too much?
November 26th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Grandad: sorry to be a bore but have you tried ubuntu yet?
November 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I’d like to see the cost of mobile data reduced, especially when abroad.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I’d like to see mobile broadband being a tad more reliable and faster. And cheaper.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:37 am
73man - Yes I have. Nothing I have works on it. You’re being a bore ;)
November 27th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
@Bernie the way they build houses here you’d be better off starting from scratch rather than trying to make it as energy efficient as possible. ;)
@Markham I’m with Stephen on this one.
@Grandad I 100% agree with you on this one. I blame Microsoft and Google for this. Microsoft for making all the other software giants think it’s okay to launch incomplete titles and to keep sending people out software/security updates and to Google for keeping everything in “beta”.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I want the house alarm dongle. You close the front door and press a button on your keys, then all doors and windows in the house lock and the alarm turns on.
Getting the garden gnomes to flash and beep would be going too far….
November 28th, 2007 at 3:08 am
@Will I’m loving the garden gnomes idea, the perfect return gift for those people who always give you shite gifts.
November 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
This looks useful:
http://www.bcpsoftware.com/solutions/voice/whitepaper.php
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Johnny K. That would be wrong and evil.
I’m not objecting, just pointing things out