Just returning from the Gadget show in Birmingham. My kids and I are avid watchers of the show and we tried to go last year. but tickets sold out faster than a quantum computer.<\/p>\n
This year we booked the tickets minutes after they were on sale so I carted the whole family up the M40 to Birmingham. I’ve loved gadgets from a very young age and I am still a sucker for something new. I’ve also applied gadgets to my activity with Bet Angel. I currently use a gamepad to enter orders as well as a mouse. But I have also tried video glasses, gloves, speech recognition, all manner of things to test if they help me do just that little bit better.<\/p>\n
The visit to the show is quite poignant for me as I spent a fair bit of my pre-betting exchange career in the consumer technology space.\u00a0 I still have a lot of friends in this industry so I often spend far too much time chatting at these shows. I loved the time I worked in the industry and it took me to places I hadn’t thought of when I was playing on my ZX81 all those years ago.<\/p>\n
A couple of years ago I spotted a new(ish) technology (most exist already, but not on the consumer scale) that I think will transform things in a similar way to the Internet. I think everybody will have one in the home, it will cut out middle and cause similar economic changes to the Internet. I’m already invested in areas that I think will be benefactors of this technology, but it will probably be 5-10 years before it becomes something of recognition I estimate. One of the companies I’m invested in was at the Gadget show live and I went to see them. They are already worth over $1b, plenty of room above that as well I reckon.<\/p>\n
An interesting day.<\/p>\n