“Great scot not more!” my imaginary friend screams across the room. “Go boil your head” I reply.

Like it or not we love gadgets and everyone uses them and has their favourites.

Communication and Information gadgets are one area of interest to me.

Maybe to some of you too? Well I was only asking. Some of you must like too. Please.

Expensive in some people’s eyes is the Smart Watch and yes it is but some still love it and compared to many precision or fashion watch its priced reasonably. There are many cheap and exppensive ones around and they are all gimmicks at the moment if you don’t like them. The best ones to date are the AppleWatch, The Samsung Gear 2, The Motto 360, Pebbles New Round one and Sony’s Smartwatch 4 and for the runners, swimmers, cyclists and golfers there is the Garmin Vivoactive or Vivomore.

If you do like them, my imaginary friend does not and still uses a sun dial with a rusty gnomon and a piece if string to calculate distances covered, then they are fantastic and funky.

I really don’t think they will take over the world even if battery life is extended but then unless your gadget has a nuclear warhead stuck to it then very few would or even could.

Now whilst phones became smaller and smaller the natural step was to see this gadget downsize into a watch but “whoooa there mule” it didn’t and now we see phones which need a suitcase to carry them around. I just don’t get it. A mobile phone or cell phone (I hate the Americanisation title of the telecommunication device) is meant to be just that, mobile, not something that won’t fit into a pocket and makes one look like they have a TV attached to their head. Granted talking into a wrist or ring is also a bit weird but spies do it and its a little less comical than having a large piece of plastic sticking out of your ear. But I guess if you want your phone to be a computer, a TV, a camera, a phone, a bank card and a whole load of other devices then that is what we will get; Massive phones.

So this is where a compromise is needed. Google glass is quite a good concept for those who actually have to wear glasses. I mean having a screen in the lens and a microphone in the arm and voice control complimented with a small phone for writing  would be great. Great for what? Well brilliant for cycling as it could show routes, speed, time etc. Fantastic for working to see information hands free so one could write a dictated letter, see e-mails whilst walking or gardening and things like that. It could replace all the sat nav furniture and handlebar realestate that we have cluttering up space. It could mean an end to neck droop. Neck droop? Yes neck droop that is creeping in as an ailment for those who constantly have the head bent to look at their phone either whilst sitting or walking and it could lower the amount of collisions in the street by allowing people to get back to seeing where they are going rather than relying on others to get out of their way.

So there we have a start and my first insight of how I see the world in gadget form.

One thing is for certain. Things have come a very long way since my imaginary friend and I were kids and teenagers. But that is another day.

Should we add to it? I think we should so I will think of the next chapter to come whilst floating this in space with the pigs and elephants that share it