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• [1] Jason November 05, 2009 - 04:54PM

  How about something that will neutralize music we are forced to listen to - like in stores or the rude people blaring noise out of their car or on the subway where it isn't just the mariachi band on the L train you don't want to hear when you have a headache, it is also those who don't understand that the whole concept of earphones is so nobody else hears what you listen to.

  
  
• [2] Drago from Queens November 05, 2009 - 07:08PM

  I'd love to see a surfboard that plays Beach Boys songs when it gets wet.

  
  
• [3] Robin from Baltimore, Md November 06, 2009 - 12:38PM

  We are still waiting for the video-phone. How about a video camera on the user side of the phone, say the Iphone, so that when I talk to my friend (with bluetooth or on speakerphone) we can see each others face. I could point my phone at something and the person I am talking to can see what I am talking about. I think the technology is already there, lets see it put into a product.

  
  
• [4] Jeff from Manhattan November 06, 2009 - 01:12PM

  I'd like to see a smartphone with a decent built-in FM radio. Does such a thing exist? I tend to suspect terrestrial radio is an afterthought in tech development these days.

  
  
• [5] MG from NYC November 06, 2009 - 01:47PM

  How about an iPod that has a life longer than 3 years?

  I really resent having to buy a new one with such frequency, though I love the larger capacity.

  My 80Gb is just reaching the 3-year mark and is quite full now, so I guess I'm due...

  Why can't we have an iPod that let's us increase the GBs without having to buy a whole new apparatus?

  
  
• [6] Kim from new york November 06, 2009 - 02:04PM

  Need a microwave-type appliance to chill and/or freeze water as quickly as a microwave heats stuff up.

  
  
• [7] MG from NYC November 06, 2009 - 02:11PM

  The small battery charger for my new Sony Cybershot has retractable prongs and it's a great development.

  
  
• [8] John Loughlin from New Jersey November 06, 2009 - 02:12PM

  Nearly everyone has 2 things in their pocket; a set of keys and a cell phone. Why not combine the functions. There are locks that exist are suitible.

  
  
• [9] Chris Mooney from Brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:13PM

  Is there a way to build in a small scale into the iPhone?

  
  
• [10] Kate from Riverdale November 06, 2009 - 02:15PM

  OK, this is the best--when you are stuck in traffic and listening to music, you know how you drum on the steering wheel? How about a steering wheel attachment that has synthesized electronic drum sounds all around the outside of it, so as you bang on it you can really play along with the music you're listening to!!!

  
  
• [11] CJ from NY November 06, 2009 - 02:19PM

  None of these items are truly innovative. The eletric guitar, the cd, The BOSE radio and the i-pod are all innovative.

  I-phone app.s? Do we really need people distracted by anything else when they are supposed to be driving?

  
  
• [12] Ted in Atlanta from Design dept. November 06, 2009 - 02:20PM

  I'd like a "shoulda said" recombinator megaphone; always at the ready for helping scrub dialogue and create a street savvy, brilliant yet witty response cobbled from my own jumbled stammering attempt at it. Speak into it, it thinks about what is appropriate and what maybe would be better omitted... it edits, corrects for proper English for the grammatically challenged - and out comes a crisp cool epithet ready for prime time.

  Or just a time machine would be ok, then 5 minutes later when I realize what I "shoulda said"...

  
  
• [13] Tony from Brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:24PM

  Hank Heijink (NYC theorbo and lutenist) has created a chromatic tuner that does historic temperaments for the iPhone that is incredibly useful and popular amongst early musicians

  
  
• [14] miguel Mendez from brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:26PM

  i got an easy one. how 'bout a party cell phone with built in bottle opener and lighter 'cause people who listen to music love to party.

  
  
• [15] CJ from NY November 06, 2009 - 02:28PM

  This show is starting to sound like an info-merical for i-phone applications.

  
  
• [16] baroquismo from brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:29PM

  t-painful and hilarious, John!

  
  
• [17] Steve from Morris Township November 06, 2009 - 02:29PM

  Anything out there that allows you to plug your electic guitar or drum to a computer and jam online with people in real time?

  
  
• [18] CJ from NY November 06, 2009 - 02:31PM

  It's Joel Gray.

  
  
• [19] ezra from Manhattan November 06, 2009 - 02:31PM

  What if there would be a website or software that would let amateur composers put together a recording of their music using their computer and samples of real instruments?

  
  
• [20] helmut from brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:32PM

  dekooning is dead. is pogue thinking of david hockney?

  
  
• [21] katie holten from union square November 06, 2009 - 02:32PM

  David Hockney is the artist using the iPhone. he has a show at PACE right now

  
  
• [22] Brendan from East Village November 06, 2009 - 02:32PM

  Yes, David Pogue, a fine artist is making images on the iPhone: It's David Hockney

  
  
• [23] David from Manhattan November 06, 2009 - 02:33PM

  Holy communion on an Iphone or Blackberry? Turns virtual wine into virtual blood. This may interest Anglicans more than Roman Catholics.

  
  
• [24] CJ from NY November 06, 2009 - 02:34PM

  A guy's desire to spend money on useless crap!

  
  
• [25] John from Brooklyn November 06, 2009 - 02:35PM

  Was that THE Man Parrish who just called? I still have those groundbreaking hip hop 12" singles he did in the early '80'S: "Boogie Down Bronx" and "Hip Hop, Be Bop, Don't Stop". They embodied so much of what New York was back then.

  
  
• [26] marissa from queens November 06, 2009 - 02:35PM

  I think the artist David was referring to is Jorge Colombo. He's done two iPhone New Yorker covers and his work has been featured at Jen Bekman's gallery.

  
  
• [27] Ted in Atlanta from Design dept. November 06, 2009 - 02:37PM

  This IS invented and I thought it was both fun and sort of musical... Out on Halloween we encountered a guy at a loud club with a great shirt on - with a lighting up graphic EQ audio sensor in it... as the music pulsed and was bass or treble, this shirt lit up BRIGHTLY in response, in the bar diagram like on a stereo. Very fun. Probably everywhere in NYC but I had not seen it.

  
  
• [28] bob from NYC November 06, 2009 - 02:38PM

  translation: check what ray kurzweil does with his gadget. he is pretty close to babelfish. r

  
  
• [29] Denise from London November 06, 2009 - 02:39PM

  David Pogue! Shame on you for such gross generalizations about women and technology!

  Sincerely, a life long fan and participant in the technology industry.

  
  
• [30] david Pogue November 06, 2009 - 02:57PM

  "David Pogue! Shame on you for such gross generalizations about women and technology!"

  It's OK to make a generalization if it's true!

  "Most Chinese citizens have black hair." "Most professional athletes are under 45." "Most children like candy."

  Are you really questioning that more men than women are gadget freaks!?

  (Hint: Nobody's saying "all.")

  --Pogue

  
  
• [31] Denise from London November 06, 2009 - 03:20PM

  If you have the stats to back that statement, then you can make that generalization. Otherwise it is just your sense, and how do you know that your sense is true?

  
  
• [32] david Pogue November 06, 2009 - 05:18PM

  "If you have the stats to back that statement, then you can make that generalization. "

  The statistic was this: 100% of the participants on the show's feedback board were men. That was Jon's question to me! "How come they're all men?"

  But you can find plenty of statistics: number of men vs. women in who go into computer science, for example.

  For heaven's sake, it's not a knock on women! It's just a gender trait, like lower voices or facial hair.

  --Pogue

  
  
• [33] Allen Morrison from New York November 06, 2009 - 10:31PM

  I think that the iPhone/iPod Touch's greatest talent is its ability to do everything in different languages. One day I experimented and changed everything to Hebrew. I wasn't prepared for the fact that ALMOST EVERYTHING on my iPhone, all the text, on most of the apps and ALL the Settings, were suddenly in Hebrew. I CAN'T READ HEBREW! How do I get back to English? Think about it. If Apple doesn't devise a way, could somebody devise an app that would do it? (I finally got back to English, but it was difficult.)