Nowadays, everybody, especially young adults love to customize, it's what's big right now. We want to express our own style, instead of following what the company tells you to be. We don't want to settle on a design designed for us. Alot of companies are catching up to this trend, but there were early ones too.
For example, if you go to Converse's website, you can customize your own shoe, you don't have to settle on the choices they give you. Although it wasn't 100% you personally because they give you preset fabrics to choose from where you can mix and match each side of your shoe and you can even put your name on it. It was a great idea, I even bought a pair that I customized and put my name on it.
Another one is when many teens started using their phones, and wanted to be rebellious, and wanted everything their way, from that cellphone cases came to the market. You can now change the case of your cellphone and express your style through the shell of your phone.
Then Tmobile came out with MyTouch 3G, and because I always am an early adapter, I got one.
Anyways, tmo's whole concept is that when you buy the phone, it becomes 100% you. It gets to know you using an app called Sherpa, it basically remembers what you searched and compares and collects things similar to what you searched,because it assumes that you like whatever you searched. You can change the theme of your phone and the home screen so you can easily access the apps or whatever that you need easily. You can even download apps that you like, so each phone is basically unique because it will have different functions and data stored in the phone's memory.
Another technology that we all love that I wanted to focus on is the Philips Flavors. Its an exclusive home entertainment system that can be customized to match your style and interior. Again, this really isn't totally 100% you, why?..Because you have to buy the frames that are already made for the consumer. How about we take it up a notch, how can it be totally 100% you? Here are my ideas:
1. Instead of having interchangeable frames, the entertainment system could have digital nanoscreens that make up the frame that emits different images that would make up one whole image. And where would that image come from you ask, well from your computer. Using bluetooth technology, one can actually upload an image or any pattern they would like to the system using a template that would be downloaded to the computer and be compatibe to adobe image editing tools where one can scale, mix and match, crop, however one's heart desires to manipulate the image. Another way of aqcuiring the image is where the system can match itself to the decor of the room, it would produce its own palette of colors or a theme, and it can change by itself, and if you don't like the design, you can easily talk to it and ask to change it.Now that's smart technology.
2. My second concept is inspired by tmo's MyTouch 3G. It will get to know you through your flavor of shows. It will analyze the shows that you watch and the next time you turn on the T.V., it will have a recommendation of what you would want to watch. Everyone's already doing this, for example, Apple itunes and Microsoft marketplace, they give you recommendations on what you might like.
3. Last but not least is a full body sensor. It senses when somebody is in the room and would analyze how you're feeling at that moment and your stress level. The system will automatically turn on a channel that you might desire, or won't turn on at all if it thinks that you're sleepy and would not want to watch at all.
So, overall, Philips Flavor trumps the competition with their concept of interchangeable frames instead of the regular black and silver boring chrome, but it isn't my Flavor yet.
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