The Mobile Spoon

  MWC15 is over for me, heading back home. Still have a lot of material to read, digest, and maybe write about. Here are my numbers for this year’s event: 3 days 32,000 steps 27 km distance walking 14 Mochi rice cakes 5 Pimientos plates 6 meetings 2 smartphones, 1 tablet, 1 laptop, 1 band 5 awfully busy chargers Loads of wearables 1 good looking wearable 5 total hours of standing in lines for taxi, food, keynotes 5 lecture/keynote sessions 4 bad lecture/keynote sessions I had to leave in the middle 1 really good session about wearables 1 person using a blackberry (seriously) Many nice technologies no one needs 0 Android pin badges collected              

I recently started using a truly amazing blogging app called BlogTouch  . I started with the free version and after a few hours I was already impressed and purchased the Pro version called BlogTouch Pro .  Blogging is a hobby I started years ago when I looked for a way to summarize my mobile research and thoughts and also help the ones close to me stay updated with the topics that interest us.  Over the years I've had ups and downs with  the mobile spoon . I had months with hundred of thousands of readers followed by months I could not write due to my work load ending up with a major drop in the number of readers.  But since the mobile spoon  was always meant to remain a hobby I was fine with it.  As most of my reading activity is done through my  smartphones and tablets, I kept searching for a quick way to write and edit my posts directly from those mobile devices, but I couldn't find a proper mobile blogging tool. I tried many apps both for smar...

I participated in an interesting wearables session today that emphasized the different areas where wearable technologies can change our lives. In a good way, that is. I admit, that being a technology nerd, I am willing to adopt anything that will be thrown at my face and runs on some kind of energy, and yet, wearables did raise valid doubts in regards to the value they bring. Here’s a list of 5 areas topics in which wearables will improve our lives. If you are skeptical about the value of wearables – continue reading.   1. Personal Productivity "Getting things done without forcing you to change your habits." This quotes belong to the first speaker, Pebble’s CEO Eric Migicovsky who by the way introduced a second new Pebble model within a week ( Pebble Time Steel ) and presented a new concept of modular wearable with Pebble’s Smartstrap technology that enables partners to add special capabilities and sensors (such as GPS) through their own straps and conn...