Week 9

 Google glasses (2012)

Google tried to appeal to the common public with the glasses, but the problem was that technology wasn't up to par with it's features and usablitiy compared to an average smartphone. Especially considering that having glasses that can potentially monitor your every action with an active camera made it an awkward gadget to be amongst people. Nobody would like their actions being recorder 24/7, thus making the design choice for the average person with similar use to the smartphone was a bad choice and the main reason for it's flop.

However, in 2019 there have been found practical uses for such a device, mainly in working environments, where real time data needs to be accessed while having both hands full. For example, imagine working as a repair mechanic under a car and you see the cars blueprint or the issues location in 3D in-real time. It would make work faster and more efficient, especially for people who aren't that experienced or proficient.

Online gamestores

The gaming market has been slowly on the rise since the first game SpaceWar! was created in 1962, but ever since, most games were physical copies, which inquired the need to physically go into a store that sells that copy. As time passed, digital copies have become quite a phenomenon as you can buy and download most games online whenever whereever, as long as you have a connection to the internet. In combination to this, services such as amazon can also be contributed into this category, as you buy physical items through the internet and they get delivered to your doorstep. Without these two, COVID-19 would've been a disaster for game related companies as most stores were closed and physical access was restricted and the companies would've seen a massive drop in sales and who knows what would've happened. Instead of this, COVID-19 brought in sales for them as everything could be bought and obtained via the medium of the internet, combined with another factor, that people were stuck in their homes with little to nothing to do, games would become the go-to for relieving boredom.

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