Two observations

I came across two things this weekend that led me to reflect how weird the consumer technology is.

While building a simple spreadsheet in OpenOffice, I noticed that the save button is a floppy disk icon. A 3.5“ sliding door variety. It has been 10 years since Steve Jobs banished the floppy from Macs. In this first decade of the 21st century, can’t we come up with a better icon?

The second is another observation on people’s living rooms. Specifically the pattern of consumers pushing for big LCD TV’s & speakers as small as possible. See this all the time. That isn’t what I noticed. Rock Band & Guitar Hero are big hits and require a bunch of large controllers to mimic actually playing an instrument. ION is releasing their premium drum kit next month. In the Engadget picture of the kit in the living room, it takes up a lot of space. Is such gear now the elephant in the room, literally? What’s the WAF here?

-Mike M.