IT inventions I would like to see in 2010.

Posted on 27/11/2009 by Rich Adams
Facebook, iPhone, Lab Innovation

With December nearly upon us, and the year drawing to a close, I thought I’d look ahead and highlight a couple of IT innovations I’d like to see invented in 2010:

An iPhone app that stops people going on about their iPhones

Yes, yes… I know the iPhone is pretty good. I know this because there is an endless stream of people telling me so – usually as if they were the first to discover it, like some sort of geeky Indiana Jones.

Oh, they say, it’s all about the apps! Some are pretty handy I’ll admit, but… Basically, there are two types of people: normal people, and those who think apps like UK Payphone Location (you’re carrying a phone for goodness sake!) and the one that tells you where you parked (if you can’t remember you shouldn’t be on the road) are a good idea. No one in this second group has ever kissed a girl!

A ‘dislike’ button on Facebook

While Facebook can be pretty useful for catching up with old friends from yesteryear, too many people are using it:

• As the world’s biggest popularity contest, collecting 100s of friends they will never contact.
• To send us all to sleep with status updates like ‘I’m bored’ – thanks… so am I, now!
• To stalk exes.

Too many people have got nothing to say, but are going to say it anyway. It would be good to tell them so with the click of a button. Maybe I’ll just stop using Facebook?.. mmmmmm... Nah!