Its the future.........
Products that are taking us towards this:
•Samsung's UMPC
•Asus R3 - Apparently Apple have been working with Asus on a tablet.
Smaller devices
•Nokia's N95 - With Its GPS feature (from what I have read its still a bit buggy though)
Other contenders if they GPS up:
•iPhone
•gPhone (soon to be released)
•Sony Ericsson P1i
This emerging attitude towards mobile computing has even got the guys at Nintendo thinking and has formed a part of a new business strategy focusing on more casual gamers and even non-gamers. Hinting at adding more features to the DS portable that would be useful in spots like "amusement parks" and "train stations" it even has a web browser on it.
There are many, many more devices out there that I have briefly touched upon the ones that came straight to my head. The role of these portable devices is important to the development of 'Physical Space Interaction'[Ubiquitous Computing "Ubi Comp"]. Before Physical Space Interaction fully kicks off there are a few things we need to solve/consider. It is probably worth creating another post on the subject of 'Privacy In a Ubi Comp World'.
I would love to here what you lot think about Physical Space Interaction / Ubiquitous Computing - any comment are welcome as this area is of great interest to me.
