PC World has an article out about the "Dirty Dozen" cell phone design flops and failures. I have mixed emotions about bad technology design. On the one hand, you expect things like usability and affordability to be at the forefront of designer's minds. But on the other hand, (which the author acknowledges in the PC World piece) without trying something daring or risky, you may never get the reward of new technology. Imagine if Steve Jobs had listened to people who put down the idea of a personal computer? Cell phones, in my view (as well as practice to a large degree) are the logical successor of the personal computer, and becoming better and better every day (remember Newton? Apple ahead of the times again). Right now I can do most everything, including blog, from my phone. The only limitation is ergonomic and aesthetic, with the tiny keyboard and tiny screen, but those are passing. Imagine a full-circle to docked cell phone/desktop hybrids! I'm sure someone has thought of that.

But I wander...without taking that leap, and falling flat on our face, we have no chance of reaching a higher place. So keep jumping folks. It's OK to get laughed at when you fall.