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When I was reading this article, it lit a lightbulb in me as I connected Kaleidoscopes to Google Glasses, both having something to do with optics and the outside. When Google Glasses first came out, many were against it, many still are. However, it was revolutionary for wearable technology. Already, products like FitBit or Apple Watches are on people’s wrists acting pretty much like our mobile devices. These wearable technology becomes more personalized as it takes into account our own heartbeats, steps, and location 24/7. We’re becoming more intimate and personal in these wearable technology that, soon, these cellular devices like the iPhone will become obsolete. We’re soon to leave our more chunky phones as home decorations like the kaleidoscopes.
We take a look at how revolutionary this technology is in this video:
Google Glasses Project by Youtube user Huzaifah Bhutto. Shows the versatility of the google glasses in every day life.
This technology allows for higher efficiency in daily tasks that incorporates what the phone currently does. Though it may seem redundant at this point, every technology starts by incorporating old technology and revamping it. These google glasses have the new ability to “see” and adapt. A phone can use location services and let you know traffic, but it can’t tell you that the train station you’re currently standing at is unavailable as you look at it.
As Jason Farman implied about the kaleidoscope consumer phases and with all new technologies, we are currently at the “early adoption stage” where the rich and those that are invested in these technologies are the only ones that are using the device… after all, the device came out at a whopping $1,500. Many people still continue to disagree with the technology like how they disagreed with the kaleidoscopes back in the 1800s, you can see it just through the comments in the video. However, as the article implies, it will soon be at the mass adoption stage and will become essential to every day social life.
Farman, Jason. “When Kaleidoscopes Were as Distracting as Smartphones.” Atlas Obscura, 9 Nov. 2015, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-kaleidoscope-craze-in-victorian-england. Accessed 5 Sept. 2017.
Posted from Digital 101 by Christy