Love-Hate relationship with my iPhone (Part 2)

I know that when it comes to technology, we like the convenience, mobility, speed, power, and functionality that these new mobile devices have to offer. However, I feel like I’m  becoming more and more jaded by this tiny screen that I’m shoving up to my face to enlarge the pictures, videos, and its many applications.

Now I know that the screen on the iPhone and many of these new mobile devices are getting larger than they once were, but back then, all we needed to see on the screen was a picture of our contact, or even further back, a simple telephone number.

Now there are full websites that we cram to fit into a 2×3 inch screen, and the tiniest fonts imaginable, all for the sake of not losing the functionality and aesthetic appearance of a normal web page. I thought my eye sight was getting bad enough from staring at a nice 17″ LCD monitor all day long, but now I’m not sure how much worse its going to get.

And of course it’s not going to stop there. Just the other day, I was reading an article on USA Today…on my iPhone…cause there’s an app for that…where all the big players of the tech world met to talk about where the mobile industry is going (one of the topics anyway). I won’t go into it, you’ll have to check out the article (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-10-21-web-future-summit_N.htm)  but some of what will happen is the ability to stream live HD video on your mobile device, including cable shows for subscribers. That’s awesome right? Sure it yes, it’s genius! And yet, my eyes hurt just thinking about it.

What I’d like to see, which I’m sure is being worked on already, or if not yet, soon enough, is a virtual reality type of mobile device. Which can  transmit a wireless signal from your mobile device to a super slim invisible screen implanted inside the lenses of eye glasses, providing a virtual screen that is viewable only by person wearing the glasses. Also, there would be a virtual keyboard that you would only be able to see through the VR glasses, controlled by a glove you’d wear to control the whole VR experience.

I know this may sound very Sci-Fi, but really, I don’t think it’s that far away. You can search online and find plenty of companies already developing this stuff, and have been for quite some time. The movie Minority Report comes to mind when thinking of the type of technology to expect, and in an age of nanotechnology and holographic computing, the possibilities are unfathomable…at least to most of us mere mortals.

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