Hunt for the New

The pace of creating new devices continues to increase. This recent posting in "I Have an Idea" surveys the most recent lot of them. (No, this poor guy in the image doesn't have a bad case of acne; read the article to see what the heck's really going on.)

While I can understand its gee-whiz wonderment at these devices, it's not yet clear how they might be used for telling compelling stories and for creating compelling forms of involvement.

While it's important to keep a finger on the pulse of new devices, it's just as important to remember that devices are only one part--and, frankly, an increasingly small part--of what really new media are all about.