The end of the smartphone as ambient tech takes over?

2 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Tracey Follows. This content was uploaded by Tracey Follows. This is a YouTube video titled "The end of the smartphone as ambient tech takes over?" (created 2023-06-02). The excerpt is a spoken segment by a single speaker describing a vision of ambient and spatial computing where smartphones ‘disappear’ and are replaced by connected clothing, shape‑shifting materials, and gesture-based interactions (e.g., a gesture on a jacket to make a call). The content is a tech/vision commentary about the future of interfaces and ubiquitous connectivity.

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One of the things I'm most interested in is how the smartphone or the device disappears so that we have more connected clothing and we have things like really innovative shape-shifting materials so that anything can portray imagery and anything can be connected. I don't need my smartphone. I can just have a gesture on my jacket or something like that. And that allows me to call someone or talk to somebody. In a sort of ambient context. So moving to sort of ambient computing and spatial computing, where the actual devices and the hardware sort of disintegrate, they move away and the communication happens ambiently.