It was a great weekend. First, I decided to fly United instead of American which meant I was actually home for the weekend - that makes the Tech Wife happy. Second, the Boston College men's hockey team won the national championship. I am a huge BC hockey fan and this year's team was very deserving of the honor. The hero of the team is a five foot-five inch Energizer Bunny (but much tougher) type of player that scores goals and is very, very scrappy. Third, I played Guitar Hero (on Wii) for the first time with some friends. The Tech Wife and I are not that good, but our friends are. Nintendo (along with other game consoles) has come a long way since Atari and Super Mario Brothers. In honor of hockey heroes and Guitar Heroes, this week's bullets reference future efforts of technology (or innovators of technology) that are needed:
- An out of the box, easy to set up home media storage system. I want my DVR (everyone knows that the Tech Wife and I watch alot of TV), my pictures, movies, etc all on the same device. I want to backup all my PCs to one place. The closest I have seen is Data Robotics solution the 'DROBO'. It is pretty clear that companies are working on this (EMC, IBM, Google, etc), but I am going to need something soon.
- A dictionary for all of the 'new age' Text Message / Facebook / MySpace terminology. And, I thought the tech industry had too many acronyms.
- Anything that improves Air Traffic Control or airline operations - please.
- Someway to make password management simpler. I hate remembering all my work and personal username and passwords. Poor doctors and other people who have to remember other important things and then figure out what their Windows login is. There has to be a better way than the basic 'password keepers' and other weak approaches. I am not saying we need 'single sign on' for the consumer, but 'consumer-izing' the RSA fob / dongle thing could be interesting.
- An online notification system for restaurants. Sometimes the Tech Wife and I fail to make reservations for dinner but we want to go to a decent place that may be crowded. Right now, we need to make a phone call and ask how long the wait is. If we could put a few restaurants on a favorite list, and check, in real time, how long the wait time is at certain places, we could make much quicker decisions and avoid the "I don't know, where do you want to go?" back and forth conversations that happen to every one of us.
On password manager there is a better solution already in the form of image based authentication which is free. At Vidoop we say goodbye passwords and its way more secure than anything else
Check it out
Matt
Posted by: Matt Selbie | April 15, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Interesting to know.
Posted by: Bona | October 22, 2008 at 03:14 AM