Personal Tech 2008: Mike Elgan’s Top 10 Trends

With each passing year, personal technology — phones, gadgets, media electronics, and more — gets better, smaller and cheaper. With the introduction of the Apple iPhone and other milestones, 2007 was an incredible year. But fasten your seat belts: 2008 is going to be even better. Here are the trends that will fuel the best year in personal tech ever. The Raw Feed editor Mike Elgan predicts that 2008 will be the year of….

1. The year of flash-based superportables
2. The year of free Net access
3. The year of the home robot
4. The year of hyperconnectivity
5. The year of multi-touch
6. The year of location, location, location
7. The year of reading on-screen
8. The year of social everything
9. The year of haptic feedback
10. The year of cell phone TV

GO HERE FOR THE WHOLE STORY!

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Honda Rose Parade drift to Feature Fake ASIMO

Honda is planning a spectacular, 22-ton drift for the New Year’s Day Rose Parade that will feature a truck that transforms into a rocket. The pilot of that monstrosity will be a REPLICA OF HONDA’S ASIMO humanoid robot. I guess the real ASIMO was busy.

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Taiwan University Building Cheap, Slow Solar Car

Researchers at Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences are working on a cheap and light THREE-SEAT SOLAR-POWERED CAR optimistically predicted to go on sale to consumers next year for $25,000 each. Sadly, the commercial version of the car will top out at just 43 miles per hour, and run for three hours after being charged by “a few hours” of sunlight. So it will be a awful car but a super golf cart.

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Amazon Kindle: Gadget of Myth and Mystery

Never before has a major consumer electronics device remained so mysterious so lengthy after shipping. Amazon won’t tell the press even the most basic questions, including: 1) who designed it?; 2) how many have been sold?; 3) how is Kindle Book money divided amidst Amazon and publisher? and MANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

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USB Credit Card Launched In South Korea

A South Korean company called Shinhan Card unveiled yesterday a new kind of USB CREDIT CARD. The device functions as a contactless credit card at stores. In order to use it for online purchases, you just insert it into your PC’s USB drive. It enters your credit card data for you.

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Amazon Sold 62 Items Per Second During Rush

The busiest shopping day of 2007 for Amazon.com was December 10, when the online retailer sold 5.4 million items — that’s an average of 62.5 ITEMS PER SECOND! Bonus trivia: 17 of those 62.5 items were Nintendo Wii game systems.

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Ultra-slim MacBook Confirmed…. By Rapper!

The long-rumored, flash-based, ultra-slim Apple mini-laptop was confirmed that week, not by an Apple insider, partner or parts supplier — but by RAPPER JUST BLAZE, who claims to have performed that week for Apple employees in exchange for one of the devices. (props to TWIMO and Gizmodo)

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