Mashable haswritten an article predicting which media devices will make their inaugural appearances in 2011 and what will generally still be popular. It has short listed four things. The importance of the screen, the use of devices in bed, in cars and interestingly that people will still be as glued to their sofas watching TV as they did ten years ago. Essentially, the most important media form which will without doubt take off formally in 2011 is connectivity. This is the idea that different media devices can be connected together to co-operate. This is already in play with the Apple TV, which connects the consumers computer (iTunes contents) with their TV and they can stream films, music and photos onto it. As well as this, other companies are looking to connect people even faster. For example, Virgin is reported to have begun trialling the worlds fastest cable broadband.
The key new range of connective products are white goods such asFridges. Samsung have designed a 'Smart Fridge' which has an 8 inch LCD touchscreen display. There is built in WiFi which allows the user to connect to Twitter or Facebook, and enables people to replace messy sticky notes with the word pad tool. It is the 'Seamless connectivity' that is the most important thing, and is a way into the new movement called 'convergence', allowed by wireless connectivity:
'The RF4289 represents the major appliance piece of Samsung’s new Nth-Screen strategy, which stresses “seamless connectivity” and content sharing across “limitless screens” both in and outside the home. The only fly in that ointment that we can see is that, thus far no devices other than other Samsung ones support this.'
But, at $3,500, people may need a bit of convincing before they decide to buy one.
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