There is an inherent risk and futility in trying to capture the latest technology zeitgeist or to put it another way, knit fog! Computers, Mobile, the Internet and the web are explained separately elsewhere in the table of IT elements. Putting all these technologies together and you have Smart Devices.
Smart phones and tablets, and soon smart watches and augmented reality devices, extend the technology from the desktop, lab, or factory floor and make it personal. This is the biggest paradigm-shift in an industry and information age where change is expected and accelerating.
That’s just a little taster of what this IT Element is all about. To find out more, why not Ask the IT Chemist.
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[…] I read an excellent magazine article by Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum writing in the Sunday Times Style magazine, that got me thinking. I have mentioned in other posts the inexorable drift away from the real and the physical, but have not really thought about the impact on design and the permanence and the human memories & emotions invested in everyday objects. The article names smart phones as the casual ruthless exterminator of, ‘…scores, if not hundreds, of objects that would, until recently, have defined most aspects of everyday life’. I will broaden my rant, I mean exposition(!), to include tablets and ‘phablets’, i.e. Smart Devices. […]