Apple iWatch
It made me smile.
The 'Buzzfeed superlative'-header worked of course!
Back in 2007 Boris and Patrick brought back a couple of iPhones from the US for a small curious group. We started jailbreaking it with tutorials from the web, trying to get it to work for the dutch phone operators.
We don't have to elaborate on how the iPhone changed the world.
There were quite some haters on the blog and on social media. Boris doesn't take himself too serious (which is great advice for anybody) and posted some of the best reactions to his personal website.
Some nice examples below:
But all joking aside.
I don't know if the iWatch itself will be the next big thing.
In 2007, I also thought, Twitter would not make it to the mainstream, because the technology was just too flaky. But several investment and reorganisation rounds later, it unmistakably has grown mature and will 'stay' for a few years, changing a lot of different industries for good. Think publishing, news, mobile social interactions.
I think the iWatch and the Samsung watch products are part of a few converging (upcoming) technologies.
1. The Internet of things; sensors and wearables
2. Quantified self and health
3. Computing power and open data
Technologies converging often open up new doors of possibility. The companies building real products, combining technologies which are out there are the door kickers.
Below you find a small video of a project by Jonathan Harris which documents his experience accompanying Alaskans on a whale hunt. A great example of networked narrative and how interfaces can tell stories.
He used his heart rate as part of the story.
