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BBC: 2005 Looking Good for Gadgets

Posted by michael on from the brilliant-deductive-work dept.

wiggles writes "The BBC says, 'The relentless pace of development in the hi-tech world and rampant competition in many of its sectors, particularly among mobile phone firms, all suggests that 2005 is going to be a very good year.' They talk about that (overused?) buzzword 'convergence' and the implications for gadgets in 2005 as we further approach the 'convergence' asymptote. So what 2005 gadgets are Slashdotters looking forward to?" I'm forecasting that 2006 and 2007 are ALSO looking good for gadgets. You heard it here first...

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  1. Home automation by ccmay · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm building a house and hoping to be out on the bleeding edge of home automation. There is some very cool IP-based stuff coming out.

    Control4 looks especially interesting.

    -ccm

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  2. DAB by spectrokid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A new car stereo with DAB and MP3 for those long drives to work. My wife got a new phone with camera and kitchen sink. We are three weeks later and she still has to place her first usefull phonecall...

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  3. A simple request... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm looking forward to a PDA that has decent battery life, costs less than $150, has good software and a decent OS installed on it, accepts compact flash cards, is well-supported, is light and thin, and syncs with my Linux machine without having to use duct tape and an extensive knowledge of kernel operations.

    If there actually is a PDA out there for lazy farts like me, then I'd be grateful for the tip. If there is no such animal, then I hope some company stops focussing on cramming multimedia stuff into a smaller and smaller box and listens to lazy farts like me who just want a good basic PDA and are Linux users.

  4. Camera/Binoculars that know what I'm looking at by ewanrg · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I travel a fair bit for work, and I would LOVE a Camera or Binoculars that could tell me what I'm looking at. IOW, if I pull up the Binoculars from my window seat on the plane (yes, I'm amused easily), it would be great to tell what city or natural feature I'm currently speeding past.

    For the camera, it would be nice if it told me in a little overlay, and if it stored the info in the EXIF header to make it easier to categorize pictures.

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    Other wierd ideas like this on my blog :-)

  5. It's not really a "gadget", but... by PornMaster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like to see a reasonably priced mini-ITX system with actual horsepower...

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    500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
  6. Bluetooth > Convergence by pojo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Call me foolish, but I for one am not lusting after convergence. I'd rather have good Bluetooth support. That way, my cell phone, which is good at GSM communications and picture taking, for example, can talk with my iPod which is good at data storage (where all those pictures go). Or my PDA, with it's nice big screen, can download web pages via my cell phone. Or my cell phone can get the next 24 hours worth of appointment information from my PDA, in case I want to travel light for a little while. The scenarios go on and on...

    It just seems a little more elegant than carrying one monolithic brick around with you.