So while this is no longer a revolutionary new thing , I find the new 'touch' phenomena pretty damn cool, so im gonna talk about it. It seems that everywhere you look ( although to be honest I have yet to see this trend in full motion ) things are becoming touchably interactive.
No surprise that touching is big, considering the relatively recent release of the iPod Touch and all the commotion it caused. What is it about electronic devices detecting and reacting to human heat (technology that has been around for ages) that has suddenly got everyone jumping out of their shoes and dropping hundreds of bucks for the joy of fidgeting?
Does this new wave of technological devices symbolize technology becoming an even further integrated extension of the human self as McLuhan predicted? Will people drift away from human contact as technology provides increasingly enhanced touch-based responses?
I would definitely consider some of my friend's relationships with their iPod Touch's to be very emotionally bound (to the point of being a little creepy/ annoying some might say...)
Wow, there's so much to be said on the topic I haven't even got to the whole advertising connection yet! Guess I'll save that for the next post...
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