Moran, who has relentlessly pursued new ideas for the last 20 years, knows a thing or two about the future. “We are still not there yet,” says Dov Moran, the man who invented flash drive around 21 years ago, “but in three to five years, we will start seeing devices which can act as the hub, connecting dots in our digital lives.” In a world, where tablets can make calls, phones can play high-definition videos and cameras can use GPS to tag your pictures, it’s an idea rooted in new technologies that are taking shape around us. Of course, this device also makes calls and acts as a smartphone when you are on the go. It’s a music player when plugged into a hi-fi music system at home, it’s a camera when put into a body of DSLR, it’s a television when connected to a big 42’ flat LCD screen, it’s a GPS tracker when pushed into the navigation system of a car and it’s a personal computer when docked into a physical keyboard. The world is full of docks and at the centre sits a tiny gadget around which our lives revolve. Though, for now, the Modu phones are not exactly what I have in mind for the future, I realized there are some similarities they share with my vision. And as far I see it, they are going to make more and more gadgets obsolete in the future.įast forward a few weeks and I came to know about Modu, a company that makes Modular phones, and met its CEO. My view is that smartphones, nowadays, can perform many tasks which were until now in the domain of laptops. “If you have no problem spending Rs 35,000 on a laptop, you should not have any issues with buying a high-end smartphone,” I told him. I told him to look at smartphones from a different perspective. ![]() ![]() His reasoning is that cellphones are for making calls, television is for watching films, cameras are for snapping pictures and computers are for surfing the web. ![]() “I will never spend Rs 28,000 on a cellphone,” he said, taunting me for “blowing money on Galaxy S”. A few weeks ago, when we were talking technology, we had an interesting exhange. But my colleague, Manas Gupta, is not convinced. The reason is they are becoming powerful, they are empowering and they are personal.
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