The (Last and Next) Decade in Gadgets

In January 2000, odds are that you didn’t own an MP3 player, digital camera or even a cellphone.

And the iPhone might as well have been a cardboard prop off Star Trek. But today, the iPhone is not only dully common, it’s the prototype on which most modern smartphones have been built.

But as of 2007, U.S. households were more likely to be use a cell than a land line.

Time has voted the Android over iPhone for Time Gadget of the Year

Here we are about to start a new decade, and the predictions are almost a sci-fi cliché at this point, but by the end of the next decade, it’s easy to imagine a contact lens, like any other contact, that could fit on your eye to provide a heads-up display (HUD) over much of your life experience.

For computers in the next decade, the mobile OS will be indistinguishable from the desktop OS. Portable computers will be but aesthetic shells for your omnipresent connection to information and processing power in the cloud.