Technology's The way

Hey there

I just recently came back from a computer fair in croydon it was interesting to see where computer technology is at these days, while wandering around looking at all the new interesting gadgets i noticed how much cheaper it is to buy a twice as decent pc with vista than it would have been 2 years ago. its amazing how far technology has come especially for computers its been just under 60 years since the first commercial pc was built back in 1945 in america, the computer was so big it was the size of a large room.Thats an extremely big difference from todays standard computers which are in tiny towers that can hold Gigabites of storage space and Dual,Quad core processors. Computer technology is rapidly increasing everyday, a computers life line for todays typical user is about 4/5 mabe even 6 years but for people who play Games want the best expearience possible and because of the rapid increase in technology, a New top of the range graphics card is produced every couple of months so give it a year or 2 and your computer will be out of date but this is mainly a concern for the people who love speed and graphics.

I continued looking around the fair and spotted an 8 mega pixel webcam for £20 and i thought that was a proper good deal especially for the price and especially because it was 8 mega pixels. This is another good example of how fast technology is progressing, only last year 1.3 mega pixel webcams were top of the range.

its going to be hard to come up with a good effective idea for this project just because of the speed of development and trying to find something that hasnt already been done. i have come up with a few ideas here is a quick list.

1.Mobile application to unlock your car and get the heater/air conditioning blowing befor you even set foot in the car.

2. Sky recorder on your mobile, i thought its was a brilliant idea but ive herd its already been done by sky so i thought id add it in anyway. basically it enables you to text in to sky and it will make your sky box record a specific programe at any time.

3. Drinks mixer, i think this would be very popular in people who like to party and go out drinking, the way this would work is if you had an online database which you could access from your mobile phones to find out which drinks can be mixed together and also post your own good mixes for people to try out.

4.Petrol pricer, this one would be quite difficult because there are many websites already offereing you the cheapest place to buy petrol, i thought this would be a gd idea because they havnt produced one for your mobile yet.

5.Wii remote, this would be a quality idea but is a very difficult one. having the right software in a mobile would be the main problem as some mobile phones dont have the correct hardware like the older generation of phones.

6.route finder, i think this would be a top choice because i personally know how anoying it is when i dont know where a place is and i dont have access to a computer, so i think this would be one of my top choices.

7, Party application, this would be a simple application which would turn your phone into a mobile disco, with your light actin as a strobe light adjusting the different settings to speed up or slow down the flash rate, plus while you play a song your phone lights up to the beat, this idea has already been tried by nokia with the nokia 3220, but with some work this could be turned into something even better.


To be honest i think that is it for my ideas at the moment please if u have any questions or idea please let me know:)


Thanx rich