Singing in the rain
Ambient Devices is a company that I've been watching closely over the last few years. They excel at integrating information displays into everyday devices. For instance, they sell a weather orb that changes color based on the weather report. Their newest device is an umbrella, whose handle changes color when it's going to rain.
I expect to sell lots of these kinds of hybrid information artifacts. It makes sense, after all, because we're not going to lug around computers all of the time when we want to look something up.
Posted on July 31, 2007
